Discovering Your Best Self from Hitting Rock Bottom

How Adversity can be Transformed into Authenticity

This presentation explores how adversity, grief, loss and change can serve as catalysts for discovering one’s best self.

Through a combination of storytelling, hypnosis principles, and practical tools, Dipti Tait and Toby Sillence will take you on a compelling journey from rock bottom to authentic transformation.

Toby will share his ‘Bear Story’, which he wrote during our ‘Find Your Flow’ Hypnotherapy Retreat in Bali – it’s a metaphorical tale of feeling stuck, unadventurous and trapped in a corporate jail – he had been working at Dyson for 9 years, increasingly feeling like an ‘inauthentic fraud’.

One month after returning from the retreat in July 2024, Dyson, with no warning whatsoever, made 1000 employees redundant, including Toby, throwing him into a deep, dark pit of grief and uncertainty.

Dipti will use Toby’s experience to explain the ‘Best Self Tower,’ her hypnotic model that illustrates how challenging experiences shake up our world and force us to rebuild. Drawing insights from her book Planet Grief and her expertise as a Solution-Focused Hypnotherapist, Dipti will demonstrate how solution-focused strategies can help turn ‘bad grief’ into ‘good grief’ — a transformative force that unlocks one’s true potential.

The session will be educational and personal, providing the audience with valuable tools, mindset shifts, and practical applications for their own lives as well with clients.

Toby has since qualified as a Generative Trance Coach with Stephen Gilligan.

Dipti Tait started her career working in TV – at the BBC in London. She swapped high-heels for a high-chair while her babies (now adults) were growing up - and retrained as a hypnotherapist. Nicknamed by Adam Eason as ‘The Darling of Breakfast TV’ – Dipti now runs a busy Hypnotherapy practice in the Cotswolds and see clients around the world on zoom. Dipti is the Author of Good Grief and Planet Grief and can be regularly found on the Breakfast TV sofa.