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Description

High Sensitivity at Work: Understanding It, Protecting Yourself and Leveraging Your Strengths

Two days to turn high sensitivity into a professional resource rather than a source of exhaustion

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

A casual remark that occupies the whole evening, a draining open-plan office, a meeting in which every unspoken tension is picked up: highly sensitive people carry a heavier load through the working day. Many blame themselves for it or mask how they function, which only deepens the fatigue.

This 14-hour programme helps participants understand how they function and organise around it. They identify their sources of overload, put concrete safeguards in place, learn to create distance from the emotions of those around them and recognise the genuine contribution their sensitivity makes to their role.

Learning objectives

  • Describe your sensory and emotional functioning in work situations
  • Identify the environments and situations that generate overload
  • Put concrete safeguards in place at your workstation
  • Distinguish your own emotions from those absorbed from others
  • Request a workplace adjustment without having to justify yourself
  • Identify the contribution your sensitivity makes to your professional activity

What makes this programme different

A log of overload situations compiled over one real working week
Concrete workstation adjustments defined for each participant
Focused work on separating your own emotions from those of others

Programme

1Understanding How You Function

High sensitivity in a professional context

  • Sensory and emotional manifestations at work
  • Distinguishing high sensitivity from fatigue and from a passing difficulty
  • Identifying your personal saturation thresholds
  • Effects of the working environment on your load level

2Protecting Yourself from Overload

Concrete adjustments

  • Identifying sources of sensory and relational overload
  • Possible adjustments to your workstation and working rhythm
  • Organising recovery time between demands
  • Framing a request for adjustment to your line manager

3Creating Distance from Other People's Emotions

Perceiving without absorbing

  • Distinguishing your own emotions from those picked up from others
  • Techniques for creating distance during a charged conversation
  • Processing remarks and criticism that stay on your mind
  • Boundaries to set in response to repeated requests for support

4Drawing on Your Sensitivity

What it brings to your work

  • Identifying situations in which this sensitivity is an asset
  • Making the most of your capacity for observation and anticipation
  • Explaining how you function to your team without justification
  • Selecting three adjustments to implement on your return

Who is it for

Professionals who recognise a high level of sensitivity in their working life · employees drained by the emotional and sensory load of their role.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.