MATES Cafe Public Talks and Seminars 

Life events such as loss, grief, and relationship breakdown as well as work stress can lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness. This form of mental distress can attribute to family violence, depression and suicide. The MATES Cafe grass-roots movement provides effective community intervention by helping to eliminate the isolation and loneliness experienced by people going through challenging times. 

MATES are trained to empower their own lives so they can be there for others in a time of need.​ 

Meet Two Transformational Speakers:

Kerry Babbage
Life Crisis and Relationship Specialist
Co-founder of the Life Education Initiative
Co-creator of Mind Renaissance
Co-creator of the Emotional Reset Technique
CEO of ​MATES Organisation and Founder of MATES Cafe 

Jacqui Olliver
Psychosexual Relationship Specialist
Co-founder of the Life Education Initiative
Co-creator of Mind Renaissance
Co-creator of the Emotional Reset Technique
​Chairman of MATES Trust NZ

With over 30 years experience in facilitating transformational environments, we combine practical insights with a sound theoretical foundation in a very easy-to-listen to approach. We are passionate about delivering high quality professional training that is evidence-based, practical and inspirational for every audience including corporate clients, counsellors, doctors, social workers, charitable organisations and anyone working in Mental Health professions. 

We are happy to create customised training for your organisational needs.

"Harnessing human emotion is the key
to a fulfilling life ​and lasting relationships”

- Kerry Babbage

Along with the MATES Cafe initiative empowering our communities, we have developed a programme which can make a dramatic, positive impact on the hidden level of unhappiness affecting our communities by reducing the frequency and severity of reactions when people are emotionally triggered.

​It is through meaning and association that we store long-term memory and so how we evaluate a situation or event helps to form our belief system and the parameters to which the filters in our brain operate. Being able to keep vital parts of our brain open that are normally shut down when we react, gives us far more ability to reason, gain foresight and reevaluate situations so we can place a different meaning on them.

The Emotional Reset Technique (ERT)

When we are emotionally triggered we lose access to our brain’s full ability to process information and therefore our perception of the event is limited. Together with our negative reactions to these events, our limited belief systems sabotage and erode our happiness and destroy our relationships.

The Emotional Reset Technique enables us to take charge of our emotional triggers so we can access our brain’s full potential and respond from a calm and balanced state rather than react negatively. ERT therefore gives us access to our happiness and enables us to create lasting, fulfilling relationships.

​Understanding and being able to control emotional triggers:

• Enables people to remove mental and emotional blockages to reveal their true potential
• Promotes clarity and power of focus to restore and develop rewarding relationships
• Gives practical understanding and application in your life, utilising the laws by which reality is governed
• Allows you through self-observation and introspection to live fearlessly and authentically, making wise choices to direct your precious energy towards what you want and the best outcomes for all concerned

"Our reactions to our emotional triggers either limit our perception and sabotage our happiness, or lead to a sense of well being... depending on how we deal with them”

Take Your Work and Personal Relationships to a Whole New Level
Regardless of what's going on in our lives, emotional responses are triggered numerous times per day by our thoughts and other people's words and actions. Our biology requires us to feel safe and when we perceive another person to be triggered via their tonality or body language, our brain puts us on high alert of impending danger. This means that we too are on the edge of an emotional reaction as our own tonality and body language have also become triggered.

You can see how this can easily have a domino effect in the workplace! When we are feeling stressed or under pressure we experience emotional reactions more frequently.
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​After working for over 30 years in personal development strategies and relationship and crisis support Kerry and Jacqui will help you and your audience take your relationship with yourself and others toward lasting happiness and a fulfilling life.​
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Walking you through the Emotional Reset Technique where you will be able to make easy and practical transformations in your life such as:

1. Be in charge of the way you feel and your emotional triggers
2. Learn how to communicate and connect empathetically with those around you
3. Have access to the true potential of your brain to transform your thinking, have greater clarity, insights and awareness

​​Start embracing and embodying happiness in your life and hack your biology to maintain higher levels of Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin and Endorphins!
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Fees for Professional Development, Seminars and Training Days:

Within New Zealand: (fees charged in NZD)
$1,000 for evening (2-2.5 hrs) presentation (plus GST and expenses)
$1,500 for a half-day presentation (plus GST and expenses)
$2,500 for a full day presentation (plus GST and expenses)

International: (fees charged in USD)
$2,000 for evening (2-2.5 hrs) presentation (plus GST and expenses)
$2,500 for a half-day presentation (plus GST and expenses)
$3,500 for a full day presentation (plus GST and expenses)

*Discounted rates may be available for charitable organisations upon application.

To book a seminar or training in your area, please contact us.

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll