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Programme 1 · The people side of change

The Ready Room

Don't let resistance derail your change initiatives.

Powered by BWRT®, the Ready Room works inside the change model you already run. It helps people get past the fear and resistance that stall adoption, so change is easier and less painful for everyone in it.

Format
Online, at times that suit the diary
Starts with
An introductory session, before anything else
Structure
Block A before implementation, Block B after
Group size
Cohorts of 4–10 · leaders one-to-one
Sessions
One per block
You get back
Readiness before and after, and a one-page report
Price
R6 300 per block, per cohort
R12 600 for both blocks

Why “the Ready Room”?

A ready room is where aircrews are briefed before they fly and debriefed when they land. Most change plans move people like cargo. This one briefs them like crew.

Why change stalls

As far as the brain is concerned, not changing is safer.

Under the threat of change, the brain turns up avoidance, scepticism, defensiveness, anxiety, fatigue and reluctance. People start to doubt their own capacity to cope: how will I manage all of this?

That resistance is one of the biggest barriers to successful change. It's also the one part a change plan can't reach.

Change programmes fund the plan. Almost nothing funds the fear.

What gets louder

  • Avoidance
  • Scepticism
  • Defensiveness
  • Anxiety
  • Fatigue
  • Reluctance

We don't argue anyone out of resisting. Nobody has ever won that argument. We work on the response instead.

How it fits

Keep your change model. We handle the part it can't reach.

The Ready Room slots into ADKAR, Kotter, Prosci or your own approach. Your model manages the plan. The Ready Room works on how people respond to it, in two blocks either side of implementation.

Your change model The plan, the communications, the training, the timeline

The Ready Room runs alongside it

Announcement

Block A

Before the memo lands

Pre-implementation

  • Starts with an introductory session: your people meet Klaus and raise any questions or concerns
  • Embracing the challenge of change
  • Building a defence against the stress of the unknown
  • Everyone leaves with an Anxiety Stop tool for announcement day

Go-live

Block B

After the dust settles

Post-implementation

  • Standing your ground: protecting what matters most
  • Overcoming mental blocks
  • Building forward momentum

Adoption

What it's built to do

Less fear. More forward.

  • Lower fear, anxiety and resistance

    Work aimed at the reaction itself, not at the slide deck.

  • Rapid, deep-seated behavioural change

    BWRT® works on automatic responses, so change doesn't rest on willpower.

  • Stronger resilience for decision-making

    Clearer thinking while the ground is still moving.

  • More openness, curiosity and motivation

    Energy for moving forward instead of defending the old way.

  • Personal benefits built in

    A win-win: people gain something for themselves, and the organisation gains with them.

  • Fits your existing framework

    It integrates with the change model you already run.

No awkward icebreakers. Just focused, useful work, delivered online.

What participants have said

“What magic is this?”

“I would recommend it to anyone that wants a positive change in their life.”

Measured, not guessed

Every block starts and ends with a number.

Before Block A, people rate their readiness for the change from 1 to 10. After Block B, they rate it again. You see the movement in aggregate, so you can tell whether the work held, and so can your exco.

Most change support reports activity: sessions run, people trained. The Ready Room reports movement.

The method

What is BWRT®?

BrainWorking Recursive Therapy is a fast, neuroscience-based approach to behavioural change.

Most reactions are patterns the brain set up long ago, because they felt safe at the time. Safe isn't the same as effective. BWRT® uses the ability to imagine and create to set up new responses that feel just as natural as the old ones, and work far better.

It isn't about forcing anyone to be different. It's about giving people more options than their familiar habits.

BWRT® was developed by Terence Watts.

How it works

  1. 01Rewires automatic responses
  2. 02Rapid, lasting change
  3. 03Breaks through mental blocks
  4. 04Builds stress resilience and adaptability
Klaus Muller, industrial psychologist

Who runs it

The psychologist on your scoping call runs every session.

The Work Psychologist is a solo practice, and that's the point. There are no account managers and no junior facilitators. Klaus Muller, a veteran HPCSA-registered industrial psychologist, takes the scoping call, runs the sessions and writes the report.

  • HPCSA Psychologist (Industrial) · PS 0136336
  • ISCP Coaching Psychologist
  • BWRT® Advanced Practitioner & Master Coach
  • Registered Ethics Officer (TEI)
Watch Klaus on Soweto TV's Sick Note ↗︎

The honest limit

We can't make the change popular.We can stop fear derailing it.

The Ready Room works on how people respond to a change, not on whether the change is right. If the plan itself is the problem, we'll say so.

Bring the change. We'll map where the fear sits.

A short online scoping call, at no charge, to agree the change, the people and the timing. Running a change programme for a client? The Ready Room can sit inside your model as the people layer.