Well-being and life balance refer to an individual’s ability to find a balance between personal, family, and professional demands, and their recovery needs.
In a world of constant demands, maintaining this balance becomes a key factor for lasting health and performance.
Potential Optimization Techniques (TOP®) offer simple and accessible methods that enable individuals to recharge, preserve their vitality, and cultivate a harmonious relationship with themselves.
They promote better management of life rhythms, prevent burnout, and strengthen the positive energy required to face daily life.
All this in connection with understanding our individual sleep needs.
Breathing is one of the easiest levers to master for influencing internal balance. Calming, regulating breaths help to lower stress levels and bring the body back into a zone of physiological comfort.
By lengthening exhalation and synchronizing breath, sensations, and consciousness, they enable the reduction of nervous tension, calm the mind, and create a state conducive to relaxation and concentration.
Energizing breathing techniques, as their name suggests, have the opposite effect when the situation requires it.
Mental preparation involves positively visualizing a future situation. It can be used to prepare for an important moment (meeting, competition, appointment, emotionally engaging objectives) by imagining oneself calm, capable, and confident.
This exercise develops constructive anticipation, strengthens self-confidence, and enables the brain and body to adopt a favorable mental posture. Mental projection is an important tool for emotional regulation and stress management, which also fuels motivation.
Relaxation imagery is a mental imagery technique that involves mentally immersing oneself in a pleasant place or memory. The objective is to recreate a state of deep well-being by engaging the senses (sight, sounds, smells, sensations).
A few minutes are sufficient to experience calm, reduce stress and anxiety, and rebalance the nervous system. It is a particularly effective tool for taking a regenerative break in a busy daily life.
The “Daily Happiness Gateway” is a simple, easy, and effective ritual that involves reliving, during a break or at the end of the day, the big and small moments of happiness from the day (paying attention to a positive moment experienced during the day, however small, a smile, a success, an encounter, a pleasant sensation). It nourishes and strengthens motivation while optimizing sleep quality.
This practice develops gratitude, promotes a positive mindset, and contributes to strengthening resilience in the face of difficulties. By directing attention towards the positive, it sustainably nourishes the feeling of well-being and life balance.
Developed within the armed forces, Potential Optimization Techniques (TOP®) are now being disseminated in the civilian world. They are for everyone, whether individuals (children, managers, employees, etc.) or professionals (healthcare workers, athletes, HR, educators, etc.). TOP® constitute a customizable toolkit, containing pedagogical techniques that can be used autonomously and automatically, enabling adaptation to contextual constraints and maximizing one’s resources in all situations.
Participants will be able to integrate the TOP® method into their daily, professional, and personal lives, facilitate the expression of their potential, and adapt to new, complex, or stressful situations.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites are required to access the initial TOP training.
Participants will be able to integrate the TOP® method into their practice, provide individual or collective support, and potentially organize and lead introductory TOP® training sessions.
Prerequisites: Must have fully completed the Initial FI TOP Training within two years prior to the start of the TOP Practitioner Training.
Upon completion of the training, participants will master group facilitation techniques, identify postures that promote active engagement, and design impactful educational materials and activities.
Prerequisites: Must be a TOP practitioner or in the process of becoming one.
Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to competently continue their TOP® activities through reflection on their practices, skill development, and constructive dialogue with a supervisor.
Prerequisites: It will be necessary to have started individual supervision with the supervisor.
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