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Empower Your Mind With Dr Peter Sear
Transform your world and realise your potential with expert psychological guidance.
About Empathic Minds
Helping You
I am a Chartered Psychologist and Psychotherapist dedicated to helping individuals to achieve personal growth, improved performance, and live more meaningful lives. By better understanding yourself and others you will begin to thrive. With a focus on evidence-based practises, and my own research, I strive to create a supportive environment for my clients. I work with individuals, teams, and/or organisations, online and in person, improving relationships, communication, performance, and well-being. This enables strong connections to others and to whatever you do.
Together we will create a new way of being!
Dr Peter Sear
Achieve sustainable life and career progress
Personal Development
Individual sessions tailored to your unique personal or professional needs. Whether you're feeling stuck, suffering burnout, or facing uncertainty, I provide a safe and supportive space to explore your feelings and unconscious patterns. Together, we'll work towards understanding the deeper roots of your challenges, uncovering what may be driving your struggles beneath the surface. Through this reflective process, you'll develop greater self-awareness, find new perspectives, and build practical strategies to enhance your well-being, resilience, and forward momentum in life.
Leadership
Professional development aimed at enhancing leadership skills and improving workplace dynamics. My approach integrates psychological principles with practical strategies to help you navigate your career path, including exploring how unconscious patterns and motivations shape professional relationships and decision-making. Whether you are a seasoned leader or just starting, I will support you in developing the skills and self-understanding that leads to effective team management and career satisfaction. By bringing awareness to unconscious dynamics within teams and organisations, leaders can create more authentic connections and foster healthier, more productive workplace cultures.
Empathic Leadership
Empathic Leadership
A program on empathic leadership, inspired by my book, 'Empathic Leadership: Lessons From Elite Sport'. These sessions are designed for leaders at all levels, focusing on building empathy and understanding within teams to enhance communication and connection. In the form of group workshops or individual programs, participants will progress their leadership capabilities and sustain a supportive workplace culture. Companies with empathic leaders experience 50% lower employee turnover and outperform competitors by 20%.
See where you are - Try Our Quiz:
https://empath10.github.io/empathy-leadership-quiz/
Empathy Classes
Empathy Classes
Empathic Leadership
At Empathic Minds, we provide empathy training for children, adults, and organisations. Our classes develop skills vital to relationships and understanding others through practical, real-world problem-solving rather than theory.
Participants broaden their perspectives, strengthen communication, and develop higher emotional intelligence. Students become more collaborative and goal-oriented, while professionals learn to create environments where people feel heard and valued.
The evidence is compelling: schools with social-emotional learning see 23% improvement in academic performance. Empathy isn't just beneficial—it's essential.
Organisations
Empathy Classes
Organisations
Empathy is contagious. Certain practices encourage it to spread within teams and organisations. This enhances communication, reducing error and improving efficiency. People become closer and more connected. They align with shared goals, encouraging improvements in performance and wellbeing.
It can prove useful to go deeper, working with shadow, archetypes, symbols, and myth to understand and align organisational narratives. This alternative framework for understanding helps organisations to cultivate the authenticity and purpose, which resonates with employees and clients. Contexts are important too. This includes the design of workspaces.
Online Course - The Depth-Psychology of Interior Design Available Now
More about Dr Peter Sear and Empathic Minds
Philosophy
Every individual of every age has the capacity for growth and change. My goal is to provide the support for clients to explore their inner selves and overcome personal challenges, enabling them to reach their potential and live more fulfilled lives.
Expertise
I work with individuals on their personal growth, and professionals across industries, drawing on my own research and book on Empathic Leadership. Through my work and PhD at Loughborough University, I have learned from some of the most successful leaders around the world and will share some of their practices and approaches.
As well as my PhD, my academic qualifications and training includes Masters Degrees in Human Resources & Industrial Relations (University of Hertfordshire) and Jung & Post-Jungian Studies (Centre of Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex), BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology (University of Hertfordshire). Neuroscience, Coursera Diploma (University of Chicago). Neuroscience & Psychoanalysis Diploma (Tavistock & Portman Hospital). Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (TQUK). BACP Level 3 Certificate for Counselling and Psychotherapy (CPCAB). Certificates in: Mental Health First Aid, Autism Awareness, Suicide Awareness, Essential Teaching Skills (Loughborough University).
BACP Fitness to Practice Certificate for Counselling & Psychotherapy (West Sussex Counselling Training).
I am a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and a Student Member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP).
Approach
My approach is holistic, integrative, and collaborative. I work with clients to identify their goals and develop a personalised plan that incorporates a variety of techniques and frameworks, from Jungian and Rogerian theory, through to neuroscience and the latest research.
Dr Peter Sear - Media
Media
Book:
Book Chapter:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384542000_Heroism_and_Compassionate_Leadership
Video - Culture in Sports roundtable 2025: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/
Book:
Book Chapter:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384542000_Heroism_and_Compassionate_Leadership
Video - Culture in Sports roundtable 2025: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cultureinsports_leaders-empathy-sports-activity-7345464903605829634-xtPW?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABRToDYBszNWT2Ei7sWPrqaRZrBaIyOq7CU
Articles:
Articles: Psychology Today blog https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/contributors/peter-sear-phd
Recent Talk (photos)
Course on Depth-Psychology and Spaces (online)
https://www.udemy.com/course/depth-psychology-interior-design/?referralCode=FAFD716011399B701C40
Podcasts appearances:
The Coaches Network (UK) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-coaches-network-podcast/id1516716555?i=1000714603838
The Empathy Edge (USA) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-empathy-edge/id1527435697?i=1000631392290
Deep Leadership (USA) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/deep-leadership/id1494823921?i=1000611559043
The MinterDialogue (UK) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/leadership-brand-strategy-transformation-minter-dialogue/id406487648?i=1000643006767
The Sport Psych Show (UK) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sport-psych-show/id1434313037?i=1000614813115
Purposeful Empathy (CAN) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/purposeful-empathy-with-anita-nowak/id1528606164?i=1000667183349
The Performance Psychast (UK) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-performance-psychcast/id1557288472?i=1000655846853