Niall Breslin
Mental health speaker & Mindfulness expert
Why you should book Niall Breslin for your next event
- Niall is a fascinating, inspiring, and motivational keynote speaker advocating health and mindfulness for organizations and individuals alike.
- His commitment to sharing his pioneering work is inspiring a paradigm shift in the public perception and narrative around emotional well-being and human potential.
- Niall is founder and Creative Director of the mental health advocacy charity, A Lust for Life.
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Niall Breslin believes in the innate human capacity to heal, recover and transform. As a life transformation expert he devotes his life to helping people reach their true unlimited potential. Currently undertaking his PhD, Niall holds an MSc in mindfulness-based interventions, bachelor’s degrees in economics and sociology, a higher certificate in performance psychology and is an honorary fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons and of IADT as well as a winner of the prestigious UCD Alumni award for social sciences. He is also a former professional athlete, representing Ireland and Leinster in Rugby, and an Ironman triathlete.
As a keynote speaker, consultant and leadership coach, Niall has worked closely with global leaders and organisations across a vast array of industries all around the world. He has consulted with the Irish and EU governments on health policy and worked closely with professional athletes across a variety of sports as well as world class entertainers. His ability to communicate with vital authenticity, inspiring candidness and deep expert knowledge and experience in a number of fields, has further contributed to his standing as a key figure in the evolving conversation about the human condition.
Founded and hosted by Niall Breslin, the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning “Where Is My Mind” podcast, is an immersive exploration into how we can better look after our heads and hearts in the chaos of the modern world. Niall engages in naturally vulnerable, investigative and generative conversations with philosophers, thought leaders, academics, scientists and musicians. ‘Where Is My Mind’ regularly features in the UK and Ireland’s top podcast charts and it was the winner in the most creative podcast category at the British Podcast Awards.
Niall’s other podcast “Wake Up Wind Down” is a twice-daily guided reflection and meditation to start and end your day. As part of Spotify’s ‘Your Daily Wellness’ playlist, the podcast reached and actively supported hundreds of thousands of global listeners during the pandemic, reaching number one in Spotify’s US health and fitness charts.
Niall’s passion and drive for de-stigmatising mental health, particularly amongst young people, propelled him to co-found the award-winning mental health charity “A Lust for Life”. Through their school's programme they are teaching young people to be effective guardians of their own minds.
In addition to writing his award-winning memoir “Me and My Mate Jeffrey” Niall has also authored a best-selling children’s book series “Magic Moments” which further promotes and educates children on mindfulness, emotions and mental health.
Niall is also a multi-platinum award-winning musician and producer. Lead singer and songwriter for “The Blizzards”, 3 time winner as a coach on “The Voice of Ireland” and also worked as a producer and songwriter for Simon Fueller’s “19 entertainment”.
Keynotes
Keynote by speaker Niall Breslin:
How to Find Peace in the Chaos of the Modern World
The talk, although tackling a difficult subject, uses an irreverent and very human tone. The aim is to take the listener out of work mode and into a space where they feel empowered by another person's vulnerability.
Audience takeaways:
Limit exposure to toxic environments and people. Understand how to set boundaries to deal with this
Say one life affirming thing about yourself just before you fall asleep each night
Before you get out of bed in the morning, think of five things you have in your life that you are grateful for
30 mindful moments each day. Little glimpses of magic moments
Develop a trait of non-judgment both towards yourself and others
Audience takeaways:
Limit exposure to toxic environments and people. Understand how to set boundaries to deal with this
Say one life affirming thing about yourself just before you fall asleep each night
Before you get out of bed in the morning, think of five things you have in your life that you are grateful for
30 mindful moments each day. Little glimpses of magic moments
Develop a trait of non-judgment both towards yourself and others
Keynote by speaker Niall Breslin:
Music and Mindfulness
Music and mindfulness have a very special alliance. In recent years we have all started to consume and listen to music in a far more passive way. Learning to mindfully listen to music can help us develop the skill of meditation and master our ability to manage our stress.
Audience takeaways:
This talk will be about music and the brain. What happens when we listen or play music and why is it so powerful?
How music and mindfulness have a very special alliance that we can tap into to help reduce our stress.
Change our relationships to how we consume music to a much more mindful way rather than passive.
Audience takeaways:
This talk will be about music and the brain. What happens when we listen or play music and why is it so powerful?
How music and mindfulness have a very special alliance that we can tap into to help reduce our stress.
Change our relationships to how we consume music to a much more mindful way rather than passive.
Keynote by speaker Niall Breslin:
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
With this talk Niall’s approach is to combine mindfulness and neuroscience education. Niall will deliver a standalone 45 minute talk followed by a 15 minute. Niall will cover the basic science of mindfulness and the brain, in both the short term and with longer term practice. The topics to be covered are:
Audience takeaways:
The basic structure of the brain and how it processes information
How information from our senses is non-consciously processed before we are aware of it
How and why much of our behavior is non-conscious
Why habits develop and why they are so difficult to change
How stress affects how we think and behave
Why mindfulness is difficult but worthwhile, including long term changes in the structure and function of the brain
Audience takeaways:
The basic structure of the brain and how it processes information
How information from our senses is non-consciously processed before we are aware of it
How and why much of our behavior is non-conscious
Why habits develop and why they are so difficult to change
How stress affects how we think and behave
Why mindfulness is difficult but worthwhile, including long term changes in the structure and function of the brain
Keynote by speaker Niall Breslin:
The Archaic Architecture Of Stigma and How We Can Tear It Down
During this talk Niall Breslin looks at the societal mechanics of stigmas and how they impact our culture at a macro and micro level.
Broken down into three components the speech looks at:
The ingredients of stigmas.
The damage they can do to groups and individuals within these groups.
What we can do to erode them.
Delivered in a way that is deeply personal, accessible and thought provoking to challenge and incite the change we need to see.
Broken down into three components the speech looks at:
The ingredients of stigmas.
The damage they can do to groups and individuals within these groups.
What we can do to erode them.
Delivered in a way that is deeply personal, accessible and thought provoking to challenge and incite the change we need to see.
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