Spark Festival 2025: Resilient Minds - Navigating the Startup Rollercoaster

Master the Art of Mental Resilience to Thrive in High-Pressure Environments

Startups are a thrilling journey filled with highs, lows and unexpected twists. The relentless pressure to innovate, meet investor expectations and manage teams often results in burnout, stress and mental fatigue. Entrepreneurs, founders and their teams face emotional challenges daily, from anxiety over decision-making to the strain of maintaining relationships under stress. This pressure can seep into company culture, reduce engagement and even impact physical health.

This interactive workshop offers cutting-edge strategies to help you build mental resilience and calm amidst the chaos. You’ll learn effective tools to manage stress, reframe negative thinking and restore balance to both your mind and body.

By participating in this free workshop, you will:

• Cultivate self-awareness to recognise your emotional triggers and the hidden factors influencing your mindset

• Learn to reframe negative thoughts, releasing anxiety and boosting your confidence

• Engage in mindfulness techniques that allow you to manage stress, improve focus and enhance decision-making clarity

• Join us for an empowering session to equip yourself and your team with the mental tools to not just survive but thrive in the startup world.

Let’s navigate the rollercoaster together and build the mental strength needed for long-term success!

About the Speaker:

Roy Kwan is passionate about helping high achievers break free from the cycles of stress and burnout. With a rich background in mindset techniques, alongside years of experience as a business consultant and coach, Roy bridges the gap between peak performance and personal well-being. His approach is all about providing practical, actionable strategies that allow you to not only achieve success but also find a deep sense of inner peace.

Roy is a Certified Trainer in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Certified Master Practitioner in Advanced Matrix Therapies, and holds certifications in Timeline Therapy® and Hypnotherapy. His unique blend of expertise empowers individuals to thrive both professionally and personally.

Learn more about Roy Kwan at https://coachanywhere.com.au/

About Spark Festival:

In its tenth year, Spark Festival 2025 will again bring together thousands of people in the startup ecosystem for a week-long program of events, from 27 October to 2 November 2025.

As Australia’s largest startup event, Spark aims to drive engagement into and across the startup ecosystem. When started in 2015, there was a relative abundance of startup event activity to concentrate and coordinate. The “spark” we needed was engagement into and across these, which Spark Festival provided.

Today, ten years later, the landscape has changed, and Spark Festival must change too. The spark that is now needed is a spark to reignite event activity itself, and the next generation of ecosystem leaders who can convene gatherings worth attending in the emerging areas that are needed.

Our focus has expanded to consciously filling the gaps that exist today — not just driving the connectivity into existing events, but also rebuilding a regular, year-round schedule of meaningful startup event activity for NSW.

Spark is a Not For Profit, grassroots festival and community. We are made up of startups, investors, SMEs, government, corporates and innovators from across NSW and beyond.

Spark Festival is the place to get inspired, make connections, make impact, and learn the tools and techniques of the new economy.

Learn more about Spark Festival at https://sparkfestival.co/

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