and even to be moving a bit. And I know I know it because I've done this all around the world for the last 10 years, doesn't matter if it's only 10 people, 10,000 people, anytime I say, hey, we're gonna get up and move, this is what I've always heard. Oh no, the movement person I hate when they give us this interaction. I can always see the drones out there, I can see some of your eyes going, no, I don't wanna do it. Well, if this was used, I'm gonna give you some really good reasons today why those drones are gonna turn to their kids. And so, before we get going on that, can I just get a sense of the energy in the room?

fingers, how you're feeling. Zeros, the lowest, ten is the highest. What have we got here? We've got some sevens, eights, great. Oh, oh, we've got some tens over there, watch out out for that. Right, I reckon we've got an average of about...

I think your version of the plié, it gives you this sense of achievement. I remember that so well, that night after I did that first set.

But I've done that one thing for me, and that feeling of achievement and hope is so important.

And it's really loud, it's really powerful, and it sounds exactly like you. So, here's what we're going to do.

The two squackers that you've got there, hand them out. It's one per couple, so it's one per two people, right? Okay, get out there right now. Now, we're going to do this in a matter of fact. Be very, very careful, but we're Aussies here, so we're going to be okay. Yes, so before you start whacking yourself, everyone hold up. Okay. Please turn to someone next to you, and before you whack them, they're now going to be your excuse bus to bite, right? So, the person with the longest hair, to get to groups of two or three, the person with the longest hair in that group of two, can you just pop your hand up? Okay. You are the excuse bus. The person with the longest hair...

You're an excuse sponsor, you're going to say to your excuse sponsor buddy, I don't have the time, and then...

Two minutes, and then give them a little whack, and that's it. Yeah, they're very, very light. You know, it happens to them every day. Okay, you ready? So we say, I don't have time. Give them a whack. Just two minutes. I feel too guilty. Just two minutes.

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I just want you to wear that from now on as well. Okay. Come on out here. Here, use this one. There we go. Okay, who was the, um, the domestic abuse buster? Okay, great. So, you stay there. You can face your beautiful audience here, by the way. Let's go. Oh! Oh my gosh!

Just answer. What's your name? That's your boss. Okay, just answer.

Okay, so on to our first session this morning, and it's all about energy. I'll be very grateful to see Lucy before, and we're in for a little chat.

That feels appropriate because if anyone else in this room is running on coffee and mild adrenaline, I do see you. Lizzie is the founder of the Two Minute Moves and the author of the book by the same name. She is a former professional dancer and she created her movement method after experiencing postnatal depression.

Please welcome Lizzie to the stage. So, guys, I do used to be a c2c dancer and I danced around the world doing the can can and casino's chorus line, moo on moo style on cruise ships I've actually got a photo to show you of me dancing on a cruise ship Anyone here been on a cruise ship? Yeah, this is a photo of me dancing on a cruise ship

can can routine and then individually come up and perform. Does that sound good to everyone? Oh wow, I was just kidding, but now I get a sense of being around the room. Some of you are about to run out, some of you are like, yes, that sounds great. We are not going to be doing that. But what we are going to be doing can really help.

So, you might not want to be getting up on stage and doing the Boulan-Rouge routine. But there's probably something that you're wanting to do in your life. Maybe something you're procrastinating.

And you know what you've got to be doing, but not doing it. Information is usually the problem. It's the doing.

I could get myself to dance, I knew that exercise was good for my mental health, I knew it, I just couldn't do it. So here's what we're going to do today. We're going to do it in three parts.

Motion. This is where we take action and we're going to build a toolkit of actions that you can take that are going to be really meaningful in the work that you all do. And third, this magic word.

By then, things would look really different for me and my family.

All the performers out there, if you want to do it, 1, 2, 3, whoo, whoo, whoo. OK, all right, we're going to stand on the tip of your feet and you're going to have a little roll onto the floor. As you push your chairs in, everybody, chairs are in. All righty. You can move into a dancing pose. Walking around the table in a clockwise direction, everyone. Clockwise. If you're sitting on your toes, I want you to give them a high five. So if you're sitting on your toes, I want you to give a high five. And if you're sitting on your hands, I want you to give a high five. So 1, 2, 3, whoo, whoo, whoo. Yes. You can keep on fighting. I want you to keep on fighting.

wise the the the the

I said come on back to your chair! I said come on back to your chair! Oh, can you give me some piano?

with your energy now. How are you feeling? What have you got? Oh, I get jazz hands from all the tans out there! Woo! Does anyone feel a shift in their own...

And we know that those moments like that can help us feel good. It's so welcome that we don't do them.

You know

Mindset. Does that sound familiar to anybody? I don't have the certain amount of time, can't be that location, can't be that intensity, don't have a certain amount of energy or motivation that I don't do anything. And that all or nothing mindset, I just remember that feeling and that mindset so well.

I used to be able to walk out the door whenever I wanted to, and get to that certain gym class, and I had lots of time, I had heaps more energy, I wasn't sleep-deprived, and I wasn't feeling at this dark, rock-bottom place. And I didn't know what to do, I didn't know how to get myself there.

to me what I was experiencing, postnatal depression. She said, here are your treatment options. She also said to me something that I've heard before, I'm sure everyone here has heard before, but maybe you need to hear it again, which is, you know when you get on a plane and they tell you in an emergency, put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others? That's what you have to do, she said to me. This is an emergency. And when we get in the car, I'm just thinking, yeah, that's all good. I mean, what's this oxygen mask gonna do for me? I mean, I had no time, I had no energy. It's all just felt completely hopeless. And as I was standing there at my kitchen bench,

You always get one of these to wear around. This is going to be your new confidence cape in your imagination, right? So you're going to open up your shoulders, put a smile on your face, so that you're going, oh, send in the endorphins. You can clap your hands over your hips if you'd like. Yeah, put a smile on your face. And now look around the table, going, ah, yeah, I've got this. No problem. You say you want to do it around the open heart, right? Yeah, okay, great. Rolling those shoulders back. Beautiful. And now, let's have Rino walk on out here, and let's have her do muscles. Yep, and turn, and walk out. Yes, walk around the table, oh, look at the muscles there. Yes, that's a good one, honey. Awesome. Woo! Beautiful. Great. And just hold it for a second. Yes. Look at that muscle. Look at that muscle. Yeah.

Nice to meet you. Thank you very much. Round of applause for our ladies. Thank you very much.

And now we probably can't all put this on a wall or anything like this.

Hold it on up and then, because we don't have a wall or anything like that, can everyone just please stick it on their forehead. And then hold it around the table and see if you can see through your ones what is under a grateful heart.

I'm grateful for you all, does anyone, anyone like to share what they're grateful for? You know, I just, um, anyone been to Onslaught?

that you can take, but maybe you can give a gratitude note to someone else. Maybe you can start a gratitude wall at your house, in your office, for the moment where you start to go, I'm feeling all this stuff, something that you're grateful for. So that's looking at the outside world, what we're grateful for. So now what we can also do is look at ourselves, which is hard. So if we could just remote, turn back to your excuse-buster buddy, and give them some kind of compliment. Give them, like, a, hey, you're doing great, I love that jacket, or great, and give each other compliments.

Oh, you little brat. Okay, go back now, because it's more easy to be a fellow Republican than it is to be a...

I don't know if you told someone in that way Tell me something way better Oh baby

How am I going to teach them?

Because every time I would look in the mirror, well, you know, I just found myself. And so I made this commitment that every time I was going to look in that mirror, there was going to be no nasty talk. And I was going to say something nice about myself. And that was really, really hard at the beginning. And I would check myself all the time. I got to say something.

So, if everyone could please grab their phone. And on your phone you will have the...

And you should have an option there to do an audio message. Yeah? And we're all going to do this together. And I did one. I do these to myself.

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and I'll just do the dishwasher first, I've got to get this work done, I've got to do this email, and I say to myself, just two minutes, and then I lift the weight for two minutes or less, it doesn't matter, and then I look in the reflection and I give myself a high five. For a woo-go-you, we want to celebrate every moment that you take, every little thing.

Go you! You ready? Turn each other, 1, 2, 3, go! You don't know what you need to do. You can do this with your colleague, you can do this with your team, you can do this with your friends. When you see them, you slide in and enjoy every moment. But they're relaxed, that's great. The reason we want to do this is because what happens when you do your whoo-whoo, your brain goes whoa, what's she done?

So just follow, whether that's LinkedIn or Instagram, and I'm gonna send you something that's gonna help you keep you accountable. Yeah, your very own excuse buster.

Who would like to share with the room, the one thing, oh, big round of applause, thank you. Please stand up and share your one, your one thing. We're gonna do a two minute dance in the morning before I leave the house. Two minute dance in the morning before you leave the house. Thank you so much, that's brilliant. You just got to get those indulgences in that moment. Right, two minutes, that's all you need to do before you leave the house, great. Who else has got one? Over here, in the back. You have a thing of one here? Who's gonna start? You got one here, come on. What's, what's wrong? Put on that little thing. I think you're gonna start in there. Okay, she's gonna go back to the office and start doing some boxing and things get really annoying. Yeah, you can get a pillow and just punch that pillow, great. Okay, well watch out. Thank you so much, big round of applause there. Thank you.

Yes, great. Liam, can we hear that last song, please? Can you please stand on up, off your chair. You can lower if you want, that's absolutely fine. Now we're going to pump up that music as much as we can. Alright, you've got two heavy shopping bags, ladies. We're going to give you a shortie. Let's see if you can handle those shopping bags. And we're going to lift those shopping bags. I'm going to lift them up. Get your shopping bags ready. Woo! Get it? Great, great, great. Hang on.

Thank you, anyone else want to break dance or do a little show of hands? Let's do a little show of hands. Let's do a little show of hands. Let's do a little show of hands. Let's do a little show of hands. Let's do a little show of hands.

You have, really? Okay, in your mind, right? Because a perfect police, of course, do not exist. There is no such thing as a perfect police other than in our mind. And it says to us, oh no, it has to be what all the rules in our head look like. It has to be this perfect situation. If it can't be that, then we do nothing. We want to let go of these rules and this mindset and turn this all or nothing into all or something. Something is so much better than nothing. Why do you think that something would be so much better than nothing? Why would this couple of minutes of theaters that I started to do when I was so stuck, why would that be so much better than not doing them at all? Any ideas? Shift the energy.