Dopamine, Motivation & Breaking Habits!

Dopamine, Motivation & Breaking Habits!

Struggling with motivation? Stuck in cycles of procrastination, distraction, or habits that don’t serve you?

This powerful, practical workshop will help you understand the science behind dopamine and motivation—so you can work with your brain, not against it. Whether you're stressed, neurodivergent, navigating burnout, or simply ready for change, this session offers science-backed tools and compassionate support to help you reset.

Come join us for an exciting event at Green Space on Mutley Plain, Plymouth where we will delve into the fascinating world of dopamine, motivation, and how to break those pesky habits!

Get ready to learn, engage, and walk away with practical tips to boost your motivation and kick those bad habits to the curb.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and take a step towards a more fulfilling life. See you there!

Join us for an energising, practical workshop exploring how dopamine influences motivation, why habits form, and how to break the ones that hold you back.

Through interactive activities, discussion, and guided techniques, you'll learn, what dopamine really is and how it affects motivation, why certain habits are hard to break (and how to make it easier), how to create motivation-boosting routines that feel good and sustainable. As well as simple, somatic strategies to calm the nervous system and reduce stress

Workshop Programme:

• How dopamine impacts your focus, energy & brain
• What really drives (and blocks) motivation
• Pleasure, reward and motivation and how to harness motivation
• Tools to break unhelpful habits & build better ones
• Simple techniques to begin to break habits and patterns
• The role of stress and trauma in keeping you on repeat
• Somatic and compassionate techniques to support your journey

Refreshments are served. There will be tea and coffee, as well as cold drinks, pastries, and fruit for you to enjoy!

The dates are as follows for the next workshops:

Emotional Regulation & Nervous System Health:

📆18th October - 9.30am - 12pm - Purchase Tickets via this link

Focus, Attention & Executive Function - 📆 Date and Time TBC for 2026

Meet the Coach!

Faraday Fearnside is a UK‑based coach, mentor, specialist tutor, and trainer hailing from Plymouth, England.

She brings nearly 15 years experience of coaching others to transform their personal or working lives, she has worked with business and self-employed individuals, workplace employees and managers, neurodivergent individuals, those with stress or background trauma, and those looking to simply regain confidence and direction.

Faraday is qualified teacher and coach with a Post Grad in Teaching and a Post Grad in Coaching and Mentoring as well as various CPD in trauma, stress, and mental health and well-being.

She also have a Level 2 in Breathwork and is currently completing her training as an EFT* (also known as tapping) practitioner.

She recognises how hard it is to break habits and create new patterns having broken many unhealthy and negative patterns on her healing journey over the last 12 years!

Neuro‑divergent and trauma-aware coaching: She specialises in helping people move through resistance with compassion, recognising the role of nervous system responses in everyday challenges, not simply mindset.

Holistic development: Faraday's background also includes mentoring on employability, tutoring, motivational speaking, and training; all with a focus on emotional safety and personal growth.

You can read more about her experience and coaching on her wesbites:

Why Not Thrive!

Faraday Fearnside Coach & Mentor

*Emotional Freedom Technique - you can read more about it here! EFT

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