2 days | Discomfort Intelligence training | Build your team's ability to work with tension

What if tension could become your team’s superpower?

Every team encounters tension. Different perspectives, competing priorities, difficult conversations, and uncertainty are part of working together. Yet what matters is not simply the tension itself, but how the team recognizes, understands, and responds to it.

Don’t Waste the Tension is an in depth, two day training program that develops Discomfort Intelligence as a shared team capability. The program equips team members with practical skills to work more deliberately and constructively with tension in everyday situations. 

Starting with our Discomfort Intelligence Assessment (DIA), participants gain insight into their individual tendencies when facing discomfort. We then introduce PACE, our framework for noticing tension, resisting the urge to react prematurely, investigating what it signals, and choosing a deliberate response.

Through practical exercises, real workplace situations, and shared reflection, team members learn to apply these skills individually and together. They develop a common language for discussing tension and explore how to bring the principles of Discomfort Intelligence into their daily interactions and decisions.

Your team leaves with the skills and confidence to face tension rather than avoid it, understand what it reveals, and turn uncomfortable moments into opportunities for stronger collaboration and better decisions.