ProductTank Bristol

Happy new year everyone! We will be kick off the year with our Goal Setting workshop Meetup!

6:00 - Descend 🛬, Sip 🍹, Snacks 🌮, and Strategy 💡
6:25 - Introduction and a warm welcome from our host
6:30 - 🎤 First Talk
7:15 - Break for more sips 🍹 and snacks 🌮
7:30 - 🎤 Goal setting workshop
8:15 - Wrap Up
8:20 - End and Depart, with the opportunity for extended discussions at the pub

Tools for managing stress and feeling more balanced.
Sarah will introduce us to a few simple techniques that can help combat stress and increase resilience as we head into the new year. She’ll be drawing on her own experience of burnout but also her professional training in a wellbeing method called sophrology. Widely used across Europe by everyone from Olympians to business leaders, sophrology is a practical mental training method that blends Western medical science and Eastern traditions like yoga. It offers accessible tools that can help reduce stress, improve sleep and increase performance. Sarah will explain a little of the science behind it - but also encourage us to give it a go!

👤 - Sarah Prag
Sarah spent 20 years developing and managing digital products, services and teams in places like eBay, the BBC and the Government Digital Service before a period of severe burnout forced her to change direction. Alongside working as a consultant and coach she discovered a wellbeing method called sophrology that impressed her so much she decided to retrain and is now a professional sophrologist. She’s on a mission to take these simple pragmatic techniques into the workplace, giving people tools they can use to manage stress, build confidence and improve their overall wellbeing.

Sarah's website: https://bringbalance.co.uk/
Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/sarahprag.bsky.social

Goal Setting Workshop
Matt will leading an extended workshop activity to inspire us all and get us going into the new year with a bang! In this workshop you will capture a key change you'd like to achieve in your organisation. We'll then use the Change Canvas to help you map out the change, and take first meaningful steps towards it.

Matt Stone
👤 - Matt is a Product consultant, speaker, advisor and investor. He has over a decade of experience scaling technical products & product teams across the globe, for household brands including Go.Compare and General Electric (GE), Matt works with B2B and B2C organisations to help them make better products, increase revenue, and deliver greater value for their users. He is also one of the co-organisers of ProductTank Bristol.

Hosted By:

Torchbox
We’re an employee-owned digital agency based in Bristol. We partner with the public sector and nonprofits, like the NHS and Oxfam, to build digital services that work for everyone. We're also the founders of open source Wagtail CMS. It’s all about accessibility, staying curious, and building tech that’s made to last.
https://torchbox.com/

Sponsor
Re-thrive
Re-thrive installs next-gen Agentic AI in your business, that tangibly improves performance. Our approach is unique: We use Systems Theory to create Anti-Fragile, self improving workflows, enabling automation and human intelligence to act as multipliers (not competitors) to one another
https://re-thrive.co/

Pilot Works
Pilot Works is a product and service design consultancy based in Bristol.
We use research and prototyping techniques to help our clients visualise and align on what they need to deliver, in order meet the needs of their users and achieve their organisation’s goals.
As well as hands-on consultancy we also provide training and coaching for individuals and teams.
Find out more at https://pilot.works