Leadership in "Deep Waters" Workshop

Build Mental Toughness. Breathe Through Pressure. Lead With Clarity.

Leadership often feels like holding your breath while navigating high-stakes challenges. This immersive program blends freediving science, breath control, and the evidence-based Mental Toughness Framework developed by Professor Peter Clough (UK) to transform how leaders respond to stress, pressure, and uncertainty.

What you'll gain:

✅ Stay clear-headed during high-stress situations
✅ Sharpen focus and make confident decisions
✅ Break through mental barriers
✅ Lead high-performing teams with resilience and poise

No prior breathwork or diving experience needed
Not going into real water during the session —just bring an open mind!

Why Freediving?

Freediving offers a powerful metaphor for leadership under pressure:

✅ The deeper you go, the calmer you must become.
✅ It demands awareness, letting go and trust.
✅ Freediving cultivates stillness - an essential state for improved clarity.

Workshop Experience

Breath Awareness & Pressure Lab
Practical sessions using freediving-inspired breathwork and control drills to train composure and mental resilience.

The Pressure Protocol
Simulated high-stakes environments to teach calm navigation through sensory deprivation, silence, and breath awareness.

Narrative Coaching
Leaders reframe fear, failure, and uncertainty using freediving metaphors drawn from depth psychology.

Who should attend

✅ Senior leaders, founders, and executives
✅ Individuals navigating major transitions
✅ Adventurous entrepreneurs seeking calm in chaos
✅ Organizations prioritizing long-term mental wellbeing

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"Leadership in Deep Waters is a creative and meaningful program to help leaders and professionals to breakthrough their mental model of what is possible. Through the lens of freediving and mental toughness, Echo brings her unique voice to the field of leadership development to help leaders find their inner calm and confidence in today's noisy and stressful times."

- Dr Wendy Tan, author of Learning Agility and Wholeness in a Disruptive World

"This is a really unique workshop which used free diving to help us understand mind toughness and gain insights on stress management."

- Jing T

"A unique and interesting metaphor to look at stress management."

- Sherry X

"What surprised me most was how relevant the free diving principles has to our daily way of life and how we can easily incorporate the concepts."

"Linking freediving techniques to work and life is a very unique angle to help us learn to manage stress, anxiety and challenges. "

- Liz Z

"This workshop helped me to learn more about free diving techniques for life application and also I learned from other participants’ stories in the workshop."

Pamela P

"This workshop was a powerful reminder of the mind’s potential and offered practical tools to manage it during challenging situations. It also prompted valuable reflection on key factors that help assess and strengthen mental toughness. The integration of freediving with mental resilience concepts provided meaningful insight into how we think under pressure. It reinforced the importance of maintaining awareness of my own mindset when navigating any situation."

- Valentina Bosco, Global HR Executive & Culture Transformational Leader

"It’s a unique way to manage the stress."

- Sunny S

"Very insightful workflow. The blending of free diving and mental toughness concepts is very useful in understanding how you think when facing challenges."

- Daniel D

"Reminded me of the importance of my own state of mind in managing any situation."

- Anton S

"First of all, it is a very special and unique combination workshop, to have both leadership and free diving into one, very inspiring and very powerful!! "

- Letitia L

"Leadership in Deep Waters is a creative and meaningful program to help leaders and professionals to breakthrough their mental model of what is possible. Through the lens of freediving and mental toughness, Echo brings her unique voice to the field of leadership development to help leaders find their inner calm and confidence in today's noisy and stressful times."

- Dr Wendy Tan, author of Learning Agility and Wholeness in a Disruptive World

"This is a really unique workshop which used free diving to help us understand mind toughness and gain insights on stress management."

- Jing T

"A unique and interesting metaphor to look at stress management."

- Sherry X

"What surprised me most was how relevant the free diving principles has to our daily way of life and how we can easily incorporate the concepts."

"Linking freediving techniques to work and life is a very unique angle to help us learn to manage stress, anxiety and challenges. "

- Liz Z

"This workshop helped me to learn more about free diving techniques for life application and also I learned from other participants’ stories in the workshop."

Pamela P

"This workshop was a powerful reminder of the mind’s potential and offered practical tools to manage it during challenging situations. It also prompted valuable reflection on key factors that help assess and strengthen mental toughness. The integration of freediving with mental resilience concepts provided meaningful insight into how we think under pressure. It reinforced the importance of maintaining awareness of my own mindset when navigating any situation."

- Valentina Bosco, Global HR Executive & Culture Transformational Leader

"It’s a unique way to manage the stress."

- Sunny S

"Very insightful workflow. The blending of free diving and mental toughness concepts is very useful in understanding how you think when facing challenges."

- Daniel D

"Reminded me of the importance of my own state of mind in managing any situation."

- Anton S

"First of all, it is a very special and unique combination workshop, to have both leadership and free diving into one, very inspiring and very powerful!! "

- Letitia L

"Leadership in Deep Waters is a creative and meaningful program to help leaders and professionals to breakthrough their mental model of what is possible. Through the lens of freediving and mental toughness, Echo brings her unique voice to the field of leadership development to help leaders find their inner calm and confidence in today's noisy and stressful times."

- Dr Wendy Tan, author of Learning Agility and Wholeness in a Disruptive World

"This is a really unique workshop which used free diving to help us understand mind toughness and gain insights on stress management."

- Jing T

"A unique and interesting metaphor to look at stress management."

- Sherry X

"What surprised me most was how relevant the free diving principles has to our daily way of life and how we can easily incorporate the concepts."

"Linking freediving techniques to work and life is a very unique angle to help us learn to manage stress, anxiety and challenges. "

- Liz Z

"This workshop helped me to learn more about free diving techniques for life application and also I learned from other participants’ stories in the workshop."

Pamela P

"This workshop was a powerful reminder of the mind’s potential and offered practical tools to manage it during challenging situations. It also prompted valuable reflection on key factors that help assess and strengthen mental toughness. The integration of freediving with mental resilience concepts provided meaningful insight into how we think under pressure. It reinforced the importance of maintaining awareness of my own mindset when navigating any situation."

- Valentina Bosco, Global HR Executive & Culture Transformational Leader

"It’s a unique way to manage the stress."

- Sunny S

"Very insightful workflow. The blending of free diving and mental toughness concepts is very useful in understanding how you think when facing challenges."

- Daniel D

"Reminded me of the importance of my own state of mind in managing any situation."

- Anton S

"First of all, it is a very special and unique combination workshop, to have both leadership and free diving into one, very inspiring and very powerful!! "

- Letitia L