Who is My White Dog
Meet the business owner and associates of My White Dog
Paula Power
As a consultant, facilitator, coach and mentor in the UK, I am very much aligned with the approach to wellbeing through positive psychology, currently in my last year of MAPPCP, ‘Master of Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology’. Supporting organisations, teams and individuals to being optimal authentic humans, I am also an Instructor Member of MHFA England for the Adult and Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training and Mental Health awareness workshops to help build resilience in a changing environment for adults who want to support teams, employees, colleagues and adults who want to support young people age 8-18.
My motivation for change comes from teenage trauma, which created a drive and unconscious focus towards hope through travel and adventure in the outdoors. I was a military wife during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and I have led young adults across the UK, Africa and Asia and became a Guinness world record holder as part of the first all female polar expedition in 1997. My continued professional development is in social science, emotional intelligence, positive psychology including post traumatic growth. I also work in collaboration with Wiltshire MIND.
I have now developed my experience and education within teaching, training and mentoring in a work environment to provide a safe space for those who may be confused or inexperienced to help someone with a mental health issue. I have now trained over 500 business leaders and adults to become mental health first aiders, to be able to spot signs of mental ill health and support someone until professional help arrives.
“Professional, well-designed course that has expanded my knowledge. Paula is an excellent instructor who keep the pace and tone of the course in perfect harmony”
As our courses are currently on-line there is no limitation to location, we provide a safe learning space and deliver manuals and workbooks to your door. Feel free to get in touch paula@mywhitedog.com
Who am I?
How did I get into this work?
Belinda Westwood
A business psychologist, executive coach, experienced learning and development consultant; specialising in behaviour change. Belinda has a special interest in mental well-being in the workplace and expertise in employee resilience and relational leadership development.
Her approach is solutions-focused, working in partnership with clients to define the desired future, explore the root causes of their challenges and facilitate sustainable and meaningful change. She combines healthy challenge with a sense of fun and inquisitiveness, delivering tailored and creative interventions using psychological knowledge and evidence-based practice.
With her corporate business background in commercial and people functions and with more than 12 years’ organisational and leadership development experience, she applies a tried and tested ‘change methodology’ and offers a broad range of tools and techniques to enable meaningful transformation.
Her mission is to help people magnify their unique talents through increased self-awareness, renewed confidence and fresh perspectives; enabling organisations to create an even better place to work for optimum business results.