The Steady StateA half-day intensive for teams carrying sustained psychosocial load.
Humainify presents The Steady State, co-facilitated with Be Well Studio. Only around a third of managers feel equipped to lead their teams through constant change and AI. This is practical capability for leadership teams and managers: leading change well, building trust, and staying well while doing it. Vipassana-informed practice linked to the WHS psychosocial hazards framework.
Work is changing faster than people and organisations can adapt
Leadership teams and managers are absorbing constant change, including AI, restructure and sustained workforce pressure, often without the practical capability to lead their people through it well. This load has intensified as the pace of change has accelerated, and it shows up as sustained pressure, fatigue and limited recovery time, particularly for managers carrying both the change and the people through it.
The Steady State is a 3-hour team intensive that builds individual regulation capacity and connects it to the organisational conditions that either support or undermine it. The practice draws on Vipassana-informed methods, specifically breath, body scan and awareness of reactivity, and is situated explicitly within the WHS psychosocial hazards framework that all Australian employers are now required to actively manage.
This is capability-building. It is a starting point and an accelerant for the higher-order systems work organisations also need to do. It is not a compliance solution on its own.
At a glance
- 3-hour team intensive (half day)
- Vipassana-informed practice: breath, body scan, awareness of reactivity
- Linked to the WHS psychosocial hazards framework
- Includes an organisational systems segment
- Co-facilitated by Humainify and Be Well Studio
- On-site or venue facilitation
- Available across Australia. Interstate travel is quoted separately.
Suited to teams of 8 to 30. Expressions of interest are open now. Sessions are not yet bookable.
Structure
Three hours designed to move from individual regulation to organisational awareness. Each segment has a distinct purpose and connects to the next.
Framing and grounding
Orienting the group: what is happening in the sector, why this matters right now, and what we are here to do. Setting the conditions for the practice that follows.
Core practice
Sixty minutes of Vipassana-informed practice: breath awareness, body scan, and guided observation of reactivity. Accessible to participants without prior meditation experience. Led by Trent McHugh, who has taught this practice for thirty years.
Science and neuroscience
How the practice connects to what we know about stress regulation, the nervous system and sustained performance under pressure. Grounding the experience in evidence without overstating it.
Organisational systems segment
Moving from individual regulation to organisational regulation. What are the work design, systems and governance conditions that either support or undermine the capacity built in the practice? This is the bridge between individual capability and the higher-order controls organisations need to put in place, and the point at which Humainify's advisory work begins.
Integration and next steps
What participants take from the room. Practical commitments. How the individual and organisational threads connect to what happens next, including the diagnostic work Humainify can support for organisations ready to go further.
Trent McHugh leading a meditation group. The Steady State is co-facilitated with Be Well Studio.
Leadership teams and managers carrying sustained change
Designed for leadership teams and managers anywhere the gap between the change being asked of people and the support available has become a governance issue, not just a wellbeing one.
Leadership teams and managers
Leaders and managers carrying both the change itself and the people moving through it, across any mid market organisation facing AI adoption, restructure or sustained workforce pressure.
Health, community services, disability and aged care
Our proven ground: support workers, case managers, team leaders and residential and home care teams, where relational intensity, staffing pressure and sector change are sustained and compounding.
Other high-demand settings
Any team in a high-demand environment where sustained psychosocial load is a known factor and WHS obligations require active management of those risks.
The people in the room
Trent leads both the core practice and the organisational systems segment. He has taught Vipassana-informed meditation for thirty years and spent two decades as a senior executive and CEO in community health, disability and mental health services across Australia.
That combination is the differentiator. Trent is not translating a wellness framework into organisational language. He has lived both sides. The thirty years of practice alongside the executive experience inside the organisations his clients now lead means he can hold the space for the individual work and then move it directly into governance, work design and systems thinking without a handover.
His advisory work covers organisational systems, AI readiness and future of work, specifically the higher-order conditions that determine whether individual regulation capacity has anywhere to land.
Cathy co-facilitates the core practice and leads the Adelaide delivery of The Steady State through Be Well Studio. She brings specialist expertise in yoga, meditation and breathwork developed through more than two decades of practice, and is the primary contact point for Adelaide-based and South Australian engagements.
Her background in communications, strategy and executive advisory across Gray Management Group gives her a direct understanding of the pressures leaders and organisations are navigating. She has worked alongside CEOs and boards through significant change, and her own personal wellbeing journey through the COVID era reshaped how she understands what organisations owe the people they lead.
That combination of practice depth and corporate experience is what makes the co-facilitation work: the individual practice is held alongside a clear understanding of the organisational conditions it needs to land in.
Pricing
All prices are ex GST. Figures are indicative and should be confirmed before publishing. Interstate travel is quoted separately for all engagements.
90-min taster
$900 to $1,400
ex GST
An introduction to the practice and framework. Suited to leadership teams and wellbeing leads exploring fit before committing to the full intensive.
3-hour intensive
$4,500 to $6,500
ex GST
The Steady State flagship intensive. Core practice, neuroscience, and organisational systems segment. Suitable for teams of 8 to 30.
6-week embedded series
$9,000 to $14,000
ex GST
Six structured sessions building practice depth and supporting the organisational systems work over time. Includes integration support between sessions.
Not-for-profit and community rate: A named discount off the list price is available for eligible not-for-profit and community-managed organisations. The anchor pricing above remains the standard rate. Register your interest below and let us know your organisation type and we will confirm the applicable rate with your expression of interest.
Scope and limitations. Please read.
The Steady State is a capability-building and awareness activity. It is a lower-order control under the WHS hierarchy of controls and does not by itself satisfy an employer's psychosocial duty of care or WHS obligations. Active management of psychosocial hazards requires higher-order controls, including work redesign, systems changes and governance, alongside capability-building activities. This workshop is a starting point and an accelerant. It is not a substitute for those controls.
This workshop is not a form of psychological treatment or therapeutic intervention. It is not clinical practice and should not be understood as such. Participants experiencing significant psychological distress should seek support from a qualified health professional.
This is general information only. Your specific WHS obligations depend on your circumstances and jurisdiction. Seek independent WHS advice for matters specific to your organisation.
Sessions are not yet open for booking
Register your interest below and we will be in touch as soon as sessions are available. No commitment required. We respond within two business days.
Still Under Pressure
A corporate workshop for leadership teams and organisations carrying sustained psychosocial load, combining mindfulness practice with WHS psychosocial safety frameworks. Co-facilitated by Trent McHugh and Cathy Gray.
Practical capability for organisations meeting their psychosocial duty
Sustained change, including AI adoption and restructure, creates real psychosocial risk for leadership teams and workforces. Australian employers have an enforceable duty under WHS law to identify, assess and control those risks. Most are not doing it systematically, and most leaders are carrying the pressure of that gap without practical tools to address it.
Still Under Pressure is a corporate workshop that combines mindfulness practice with the WHS psychosocial safety framework, connecting the individual experience of pressure with the organisational conditions that create and sustain it. It gives leadership teams both personal regulation capacity and the organisational framing they need to lead their people through that pressure in a way that is practical, grounded and board-aware.
Co-facilitated by Trent McHugh (Humainify, Launceston TAS) and Cathy Gray (Be Well Studio, Adelaide SA). Available across Australia.
At a glance
- Corporate format for leadership teams and managers
- Combines mindfulness practice with the WHS psychosocial hazards framework
- Connects individual experience of pressure to organisational obligations and controls
- Practical entry point for organisations meeting their psychosocial duty of care
- Co-facilitated by Trent McHugh (Humainify) and Cathy Gray (Be Well Studio, Adelaide SA)
- Available across Australia. Interstate travel quoted separately.
- Expressions of interest open now. Dates by arrangement.
The people in the room
Trent leads the organisational systems framing and co-facilitates the practice. He spent two decades as a senior executive and CEO in community health, disability and mental health services, and has taught Vipassana-informed meditation for thirty years. That combination, the inside experience of running organisations under sustained pressure alongside a long personal practice, is what makes the co-facilitation credible. He understands what the board needs to see and what the person in the room is actually carrying.
Cathy co-facilitates Still Under Pressure through Be Well Studio. She brings specialist expertise in yoga, meditation and breathwork developed through more than two decades of practice, alongside her background in communications, strategy and executive advisory. Her own sustained wellbeing practice through the COVID era, and her experience advising CEOs and boards through significant change, give her a direct understanding of what organisations owe the people they lead.
Scope and limitations. Please read.
Still Under Pressure is a capability-building and awareness activity. It is a lower-order control under the WHS hierarchy of controls and does not by itself satisfy an employer's psychosocial duty of care or WHS obligations. Active management of psychosocial hazards requires higher-order controls, including work redesign, systems changes and governance, alongside capability-building activities. This workshop is a starting point and a practical entry point. It is not a substitute for those controls.
This workshop is not a form of psychological treatment or therapeutic intervention. It is not clinical practice and should not be understood as such. Participants experiencing significant psychological distress should seek support from a qualified health professional.
This is general information only. Your specific WHS obligations depend on your circumstances and jurisdiction. Seek independent WHS advice for matters specific to your organisation.