Virtual event: Ian Robertson - Confidence workshops
Note: This is the reservation page for the online event. There is a separate page for the in-person version, here.
At the Convention in November, Anne Gaffey launched the “Flourishing Actuary” sub-stream of the Society’s strategic focus on education and personal development. This sub-stream aims to develop out initiatives that hone the traits and skills that allow members flourish from their technical base (including confidence, conflict management, political skills among others). In the session, Ian Robertson (see bio below) gave a very well received taster of the type of initiative that we have in mind.
As promised, we are delighted to announce the launch of the first initiative in the program, where Ian will lead a six-hour workshop (split into three blocks of two hours each) focused on developing confidence.
As Ian puts it “Embracing change and pushing beyond one’s existing domain of expertise and experience requires, above everything else, confidence. As confidence comprises series of learned habits, then it is possible for people to learn these and thus to benefit from its brain-changing capacity to improve performance and confront unsettling change.”
If you saw Ian in action at the Convention, or simply read the bio below, I hope you’ll share our confidence that this will be a very valuable session.
We are offering two versions of the workshops, one will be online and one in-person. We can cater for 50 members in each. To be clear, if you're signing up for the online version, you are signing up for the three sessions (it’s not three identical sessions of which you choose one). Similarly for the in-person version.
PLEASE NOTE: This is the reservation page for the online event. If you would like to make the reservation for the in-person workshop please make your reservation here.
Places are limited to 50 members on each and there will be a subsidised fee of €30 to sign up for either.
The online version of the event will take place over three Wednesdays:
- Monday, January 20th from 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm
- Monday, January 27th from 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm
- Monday, February 10th from 4.30 pm - 6.30 pm
Ian Robertson is Professor Emeritus at Trinity College Dublin and T Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has written over 600 scientific papers and books on psychology, neuropsychology and neuroscience. These have been cited more than 41,000 times by researchers globally, making him one of the most highly-cited psychologists in the world. He has held professorial or professorial-level appointments at Universities of Cambridge, London, Toronto, Bangor and Texas, as well as at Trinity College Dublin, where he has recently been awarded both an honorary Doctor of Science and an honorary MD in recognition of his globally recognised research. Ian is also an author of several popular science books, the latest of which was How Confidence Works (Penguin 2021). He has recently been interviewed by Sanjay Gupta on CNN, and also to his being featured on a Netflix/BBC trending documentary on Vladimir Putin. He has also featured in several BBC Radio 4 programmes, including two with the late Michael Mosley, as well as two in the series ‘Seven Deadly Psychologies’.