Keynote SpeakerNiall Breslin

Biography

Popular Talks by Niall Breslin

• Finding peace in the chaos of the modern world
  Niall’s keynote talk is a powerful personal story combined with his deep knowledge and expertise of the human condition. It brings the audience through his dynamic and eclectic career as a professional rugby player, touring musician and broadcaster disguising a rampant and destructive struggle with depression and panic disorder, which... Read more

  Niall’s keynote talk is a powerful personal story combined with his deep knowledge and expertise of the human condition. It brings the audience through his dynamic and eclectic career as a professional rugby player, touring musician and broadcaster disguising a rampant and destructive struggle with depression and panic disorder, which ultimately led him to hit rock bottom on a live prime-time television show. This was the catalyst for change that guided Niall on a truly remarkable journey of healing and transformation. A journey he now helps people with all over the world.

   

  The Keynote is delivered with three core themes. 

  1.     Relatability – The audience needs to see themselves or their loved ones in what is being said.
  2.     Vulnerability – This shifts the audience from the head into the heart, and this is where the real impact happens.
  3.     Functionality – The audience needs to leave the room with tangible, practical and accessible information that they can apply to their everyday lives.

  Niall offers this through a 5 step plan that resonates with all that hear it.

• The Architecture of Stigma (And how we can deconstruct it)
  How can organisations craft cultures of diversity and inclusion? They must understand the obstacles that historically and presently prevent them.   Niall explores this topic in three ways. 1.     How are stigmas forged into the fabric of our culture? 2.     What are the cognitive biases that allow them to prevail?... Read more

  How can organisations craft cultures of diversity and inclusion? They must understand the obstacles that historically and presently prevent them.

   

  Niall explores this topic in three ways.

  1.     How are stigmas forged into the fabric of our culture?
  2.     What are the cognitive biases that allow them to prevail?
  3.     How we can deconstruct them and move towards a more equal and empathetic society, for equality is the best form of therapy.

  This is a very accessible and practical explanation of the building blocks of stigmas, and more importantly, how can we break them down.

• The Therapy Room
  Hugely popular offering, where Niall discusses the various themes that come up in the therapist’s room. This is a conversation with consultant psychologist Louize Carroll and Dr Tony Bates (founders of the national youth mental health charity ‘Jigsaw’). This can be very helpful for organisations resistant to EAP and other... Read more

  Hugely popular offering, where Niall discusses the various themes that come up in the therapist’s room.

  This is a conversation with consultant psychologist Louize Carroll and Dr Tony Bates (founders of the national youth mental health charity ‘Jigsaw’). This can be very helpful for organisations resistant to EAP and other support structures. A fireside chat format that really captures the audience in a life-changing way.

• An Atlantic state of mind
  This very special experience sees Niall in conversation with his close friend and old rugby partner Damien Browne, who in 2022 became the first man to row the North Atlantic Ocean from New York to Galway in 112 days. The conversation will explore the various mental fitness techniques incorporated by... Read more

  This very special experience sees Niall in conversation with his close friend and old rugby partner Damien Browne, who in 2022 became the first man to row the North Atlantic Ocean from New York to Galway in 112 days. The conversation will explore the various mental fitness techniques incorporated by Damien to take on what seemed like an impossible task.

  The experience highlights the true power of the mind to overcome the toughest of challenges, an Atlantic state.

• The Neuroscience of Mindfulness-based interventions
  Mindfulness is fast becoming the most important ally of the modern mind. Our world moves at a pace that is becoming unsustainable. Neuroscience suggests “we have an old brain for a new world”. But mindfulness is also being commodified and diluted to suit marketing agendas rather than human agendas. Often... Read more

  Mindfulness is fast becoming the most important ally of the modern mind. Our world moves at a pace that is becoming unsustainable. Neuroscience suggests “we have an old brain for a new world”. But mindfulness is also being commodified and diluted to suit marketing agendas rather than human agendas. Often referred to as ‘McMindfulness’ or ‘Mindfulness lite’. But if we preserve the essence of mindfulness, it has the ability to drive a paradigm shift in an individual’s mindset. But how can it help your organisation?

   

  This keynote breaks the brain and its evolution down into three areas.

  1.     Brain stem.
  2.     Limbic syste
  3.     Neo-cortex

  And Explains the science behind why mindfulness is so important to how they operate and interact. This keynote tells the informative and irreverent story of our evolutionary ancestors ‘Flint Eastwood and ‘The Rock’.