Freedom Together for Business
Elevate your Team beyond the Survival Mind
Develop self awareness, emotional intelligence,
advanced communication and resilience in life, leadership and work.
Why this matters...
Many workplace challenges are symptoms of the same underlying mechanism we call
the Survival Mind.
Under
Pressure
When pressure increases, people naturally shift into self-protection.
Communication breaks down, emotions run higher, and minor misunderstandings quickly escalate.
What should have been a simple conversation becomes a source of ongoing stress and friction.
Communication Breakdown
Despite everyone's best intentions, the same workplace frustrations and tensions keep resurfacing.
These loops repeat because the underlying behaviours remain unseen.
Without awareness, organisations spend years treating surface symptoms instead of root causes.
The Accountability
Gap
When things go wrong, the default reaction degrades into blaming circumstances, avoiding tough conversations, or pointing fingers.
As genuine ownership declines, trust erodes and the weight of solving problems shifts away from where it belongs.
The Survival Mind at Work
The friction, recurring patterns and lack of ownership you experience at work are rarely individual performance flaws. They are often the predictable result of people operating from what we call the Survival Mind.
Under pressure, the Survival Mind drives defensiveness, blame, avoidance, emotional reactivity, people pleasing, control and withdrawal.. While these behaviours are universally human, they create environments where trust erodes and the same problems repeat.
Our work helps individuals, leaders and teams recognise these patterns in real time and develop the awareness and practical skills/ capacity needed to choose a different response.
What Changes For You &
Your Team
As leaders and team members develop greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence and communication skills, workplace dynamics begin to shift.
The way leadership responds to pressure, challenge and conflict becomes a model for the culture around them, creating stronger relationships, greater accountability and healthier workplace interactions.
What this often looks like:
• More effective communication under pressure
• Greater confidence navigating difficult conversations
• Less defensiveness when giving and receiving feedback
• Reduced workplace gossip, blame and complaint
• Lower emotional reactivity and workplace tension
• Stronger trust, accountability and ownership
• More constructive conflict resolution
• Improved decision-making and collaboration
• Healthier workplace relationships
• Greater resilience during periods of challenge and change
The result is stronger leadership, a healthier workplace culture and a more connected, accountable and resilient team.
As people learn to address challenges directly, trust deepens, communication improves and workplace tension naturally reduces.
Rather than being driven by reactivity and unconscious patterns, teams develop the capacity to respond with greater awareness, accountability and respect.
This creates a workplace where both people and performance can thrive.
Every workplace experiences pressure, conflict and change.
The difference lies in how people respond.
We help individuals and teams move beyond reactive patterns and develop the awareness, resilience and communication skills required to create meaningful relationships, stronger teams and more sustainable performance.
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The Self Enquiry Framework
Most workplace development programs focus on improving communication, leadership, or team performance.
Self Enquiry works at the deeper level where workplace behaviours, relationships and culture are created and sustained.
By combining psychological awareness with practical workplace application, our methodology integrates three core systems into everyday working life.
1. The Enquiry Process (F.R.E.E.)
A practical framework for identifying and working through the unconscious assumptions, beliefs, and reactive patterns that drive workplace conflict, communication breakdowns and recurring challenges.
2. Self Recognition Practices
Awareness-based practices that develop the capacity to remain clear, grounded, and responsive under pressure rather than becoming reactive, defensive or overwhelmed.
3. Relational R.E.P.A.I.R.
A structured method for navigating difficult conversations, strengthening accountability, repairing breakdowns in trust and creating healthier workplace relationships.
The Shift from Theory to Real-Time Change
Rather than simply teaching people what to do, Self Enquiry helps people recognise their patterns in real time and choose a different response.
On their own, each process has value. Together, they form a practical framework for developing stronger leadership, clearer communication, greater accountability and workplaces that can navigate challenge without becoming consumed by it.
A complete workplace wellbeing ecosystem combining individual support, team development and ongoing integration.
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How We Work With Business
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PACKAGE ONE:
1:1 Support
Monthly 1:1 personalised sessions with the flexibility to scale as required.
Confidential individual sessions for staff, leaders or team members who would benefit from personalised support from Chris and Tess.
1:1 sessions are designed to help people develop greater self-awareness, emotional intelligence, communication skills and resilience in both life and work.
This pathway supports staff to work through challenges privately while developing the internal capacity to show up with more clarity, accountability and emotional steadiness.
This can support:
✓ Stress, overwhelm and burnout prevention
✓ Workplace conflict and communication challenges
✓ Emotional reactivity and defensiveness
✓ Confidence, self-trust and personal responsibility
✓ Leadership development and decision-making
✓ Life challenges impacting work performance
✓ Navigating change, pressure and difficult conversations
Personalised support creates space for challenges to be addressed early, helping staff remain engaged, accountable and productive while reducing the flow-on effects that can impact mental health, team dynamics and performance.
PACKAGE TWO:
Freedom Together
Membership
Ongoing learning, support and integration through courses, practices, live sessions & community connection.
The Freedom Together Community provides staff with practical tools, frameworks and ongoing support that strengthen self-awareness, emotional intelligence and communication skills in both life and work.
As staff engage with the same teachings, language and frameworks, a shared understanding begins to develop across the team. This creates greater accountability, clearer communication and a more constructive way of navigating challenges, conflict and workplace triggers. Rather than only accessing support when difficulties arise, team members continue developing the internal skills that support resilience, ownership, emotional regulation and effective communication over time.
This contributes to:
✓ A shared language and framework across the team
✓ Greater accountability, ownership and self-responsibility
✓ More effective communication and feedback conversations
✓ Reduced workplace conflict and emotional reactivity
✓ Stronger leadership and self-leadership skills
✓ Greater resilience under pressure and change
✓ Improved trust, connection and team cohesion
✓ Less time spent managing interpersonal issues and recurring team dynamics
The Freedom Together Community acts as an internal gym for your team. Rather than relying on one-off wellbeing initiatives, staff continue developing the human skills that support communication, accountability, leadership and resilience long after the initial intervention.
PACKAGE 3:
Team Workshops
Practical workshops designed to strengthen communication, emotional intelligence, accountability and team culture.
Workshops can be tailored to the specific needs and challenges of your team and delivered online or in person.
Popular workshop topics include:
• Communication & Difficult Conversations
• Conflict Resolution & Repair
• Understanding Triggers & Emotional Reactivity
• Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
• Accountability & Personal Responsibility
• Stress, Overwhelm & Resilience
• Building Trust & Psychological Safety
• Workplace Culture & Team Dynamics
• Leadership & Self-Awareness
• Self Enquiry – What Drives Your Choices, Actions & Behaviours
• The Survival Mind at Work
Each workshop includes practical tools, Freedom Together's core frameworks and immediately applicable strategies that can be integrated into everyday workplace interactions.
Workshops can be customised to align with your team's goals, current challenges and desired workplace culture.
Inside the Freedom Together Membership
The Freedom Together Membership acts as an internal gym for your team, helping staff strengthen the awareness, communication and leadership skills that support lasting workplace change.
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INSIDE THE MEMBERSHIP:
✓ The Self Enquiry Foundations Course
✓ The Self Enquiry Framework (F.R.E.E)
✓ Weekly Live Integration Sessions
✓ Guided Meditations & Self-Recognition Practices
✓ Emotional Intelligence & Communication Tools
✓ Relationship R.E.P.A.I.R Method
✓ A Library of Awareness Practices & Core Teachings
✓ Group Challenges and Resets
✓ Session Replays & On-Demand Learning
✓ Community Support & Accountability
✓ Mobile & Desktop Access Anywhere
"We brought Chris in to support our team with conflict resolution and were surprised by both the depth and simplicity of the tools he shared. The impact was immediate, creating greater understanding, stronger communication and a positive ripple effect throughout the entire team."
Emily Thomsom — Director of Change Management, BHP
How it works
Every workplace is different. During your discovery call we'll help identify the combination of support that best aligns with your team, culture, challenges and goals.
Book a Call
We'll discuss your team, workplace culture, current challenges and desired outcomes, and explore which support options may be the best fit.
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Tailored Proposal
Following our conversation, we'll prepare a proposal outlining the recommended support structure, investment and implementation options for your team.
Personalised Plan
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Get Started
Onboarding & Access
Once approved, we'll set up your team with everything required to begin, including onboarding, booking access, membership access and any agreed support services.
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"Our workplace dynamic has completely transformed. As a family-run business, this work has removed the drama, strengthened accountability,
and brought us back to the clarity of our shared vision."
Trent Banyan — BTI Institute
Our work is not about adding something to people.
It is a process of recognising and reducing the influence of the Survival Mind, the reactive patterns that can drive behaviour under pressure, uncertainty and challenge.
As identification with the Survival Mind softens, people gain greater access to presence, clarity and choice. Communication improves, relationships strengthen and decisions become less reactive and more intentional. The result is a workplace culture grounded in greater accountability, authenticity and respect.
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Meet your Coaches
Tess Mallett and Chris Knight are the founders of Freedom Together, specialising in Self Enquiry, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, Relational Repair and Leadership Development.
Drawing on more than 10 years of experience, they support individuals, couples and teams to understand the drivers behind behaviour, improve workplace relationships and develop the skills required to navigate challenge, change and conflict effectively.
Their work focuses on understanding the unconscious drivers of thoughts, emotions, behaviours and workplace dynamics. Through their unique Self Enquiry Framework, individuals develop greater emotional intelligence, personal responsibility and resilience while moving beyond the reactive patterns of the Survival Mind.
Through a blend of 1:1 coaching, the Freedom Together Community and team workshops, Tess and Chris support individuals and organisations to move beyond reactivity, strengthen accountability and create cultures built on authenticity, connection and personal responsibility.
