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PSA Birmingham November 2026: What’s Really Running the Room – The Mind Behind the Microphone

02 November|18:00 - 21:00|The Arden Hotel - Solihull - See full address

About this event

You already have the tools.
You already know how to hold a room.
So why does the struggle keep coming back quieter, sharper, harder to name?

This is not another night of tips.

This is a night about what sits under the tips. The hidden layer that decides whether the audience leans in… or slips away. The baggage you think you’ve packed, and the mind games you didn’t know you were still playing.

Keynote Julie French – House of Mind Games
For nearly thirty years the tools worked. Until they didn’t.

Julie went looking for what was missing and found a deeper layer that had been there all along, hidden in plain sight.

This is an invitation into the House of Mind Games.

And a dare to look at what’s living in yours.

Keynote Ruth Fogg – Drop the Baggage. Connect for Real.
Connecting with your audience is essential but if you are carrying baggage, it won’t happen! Understand how your mind works, explore your attitudes, beliefs and values, and eliminate painful memories so that you can establish rapport and be at your best. Learn self help techniques which you apply in your personal life as well as in your business. This is an experiential masterclass with plenty to explore and learn!

We’ll also have a Showcase from Tana Macpherson-Smith.

Keynote speakers

Julie French
Ruth Fogg
Julie French

Formerly a senior leader in social work, Julie has been coaching, training, and delivering keynote presentations since 1999.

As an NLP Master Trainer, she has led numerous Practitioner and Master Practitioner trainings around the world.

Today, she is the Co-Director of the Academy of High Achievers, which she runs with her life and business partner, Tony Burgess. Together, they’ve co-authored three books focused on helping people reclaim their true selves.

Since 2008, they’ve also built a successful psychometric profiling business and have delivered transformative Havening Techniques® Practitioner trainings, all with the aim of helping people unlock lasting change and step into their full potential.

Ruth Fogg

Ruth Fogg specialises in providing practical skills and solutions to understand and manage stress in both personal and professional situations.

She has been  a “stresspert” since 2002 and her qualifications include a Diploma and MSc in Counselling Psychology, Teaching, Hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique and Stress Management. She wears hearing aids in both ears but is an excellent lipreader! She says that the only thing that frustrates and stresses her out is when she cannot hear what is going on due to a lack of awareness of the people and circumstances around her which could be easily addressed.

Her background is in Education, in teaching, youth work, as an FE and HE lecturer at Brunel University and Ofsted Inspector!  She is currently a school governor in her local community.

She is an Honorary Fellow of Brunel University, a Fellow of The International Stress Management Association, a member of the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council and The Complementary and National Healthcare Council as well as a professional member of the PSA with Thames Valley being her “home” region

Event agenda

18:00
Networking & Coffee
18:30
Meeting Opens
18:45
Showcase - Tana MacPherson-Smith
19:15
Keynote - Julie French
20:00
Coffee Break
20:15
Keynote - Ruth Fogg
21:00
Meeting Close

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Get in touch with the organiser

Larissa Astara Gray

Regional President - PSA Birmingham

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