Changing What’s Possible — How to raise the ceiling you didn’t know you’d set

Changing What’s Possible is the next in Ian McDermott’s monthly Springboard series: 50 minutes of clear thinking, drawn from 35+ years of working with people navigating change. Not a sales pitch. Not a teaser. Practical insight you can use the same day.

What we'll explore

• What determines your sense of what's possible - the factors that underpin mindset and identity, for yourself and others
• The ceiling you didn't know existed - what it is, and how to start recognising it in your own thinking and behaviour
• Why the familiar can feel safer than the possible - why people often prefer familiar difficulties to unfamiliar possibilities, and what to do about it
• How disruption can open new directions - when it's met with curiosity rather than anxiety
• Rethinking what's actually possible here - for you, and for those you feel some responsibility for in any walk of life
• How the worst thing that happened can become a turning point - and what that shift can look like
• From 'that's just how I am' to something more open - transforming fixed beliefs into more generative enquiries

Many people’s limits are ones they didn’t consciously choose, a ceiling they didn’t know existed. Until they did.

Disruption, handled well, can be the very thing that opens a world of possibilities. This session is about recognising the ceiling you’ve set, and beginning to raise it.