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Neuroscience and Nutrition: Understanding Yourself Better to Perform Better

French-Style Well-Being Day in the Workplace

Amid the hustle and bustle of daily work life, it’s common to ignore the body’s signals, confuse fatigue with hunger, or seek comfort in coffee, snacks… or excessive control. What if the way we eat revealsmuch more than we realizeour relationship with stress, pressure, motivation… and ourselves?

Led by Cathy Nagat, a neurobehavioral coach trained in neuroscience and epigenetics, this day explores the often unconscious mechanisms influencing our eating behaviors and their direct connection to our emotional balance and work performance.

Through dynamic workshops, games, accessible tools, and a pedagogy rooted in kindness, your employees are invited to decode their brain’s automatic patterns, understand how stress influences their food choices, and discover concrete levers to regain energy, mental clarity, and lasting motivation.

Designed specifically for French companies and institutions abroad, this day offers much more than a moment of well-being:
it’s an immersive, transformative experience, carried by the elegance of French pedagogy, where emotional regulation becomes a lever for collective calm, sustainable performance… and improved everyday communication.

About CATHY NAGAT

Neuro-behavioral weight loss coach

For nearly 15 years, Cathy Nagat has supported women with excess weight in the aesthetic field. She observed a truth often forgotten: sustainable weight loss does not begin with diet, but with reconnecting to oneself.

She then trained in neuroscience and epigenetics to become a neuro-behavioral coach specializing in weight loss, with an approach based on three pillars:

  • Reconnecting with bodily sensations (hunger, satiety, digestive comfort)

  • Managing stress and emotions

  • Identifying limiting beliefs and transgenerational injunctions

Her teaching approach is based on non-judgment, deep listening, and kindness. She views pleasure as a fundamental lever for transformation, serving lasting well-being.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Plate, Healthy Work

In a demanding professional world, where performance often goes hand in hand with pressure, it becomes essential to offer your teams moments of grounding, reflection… and reconnection with themselves.

This is the goal of this unique day, led by Cathy Nagat, a neurobehavioral coach trained in neuroscience and epigenetics. After supporting people with weight challenges for over 15 years, she now offers an innovative approach to well-being and motivation, targeting where it all begins: the brain and emotions.

Through interactive workshops, games, sharing sessions, and practical tools, your employees discover how their eating behaviors—often seen as personal—actually reflect patterns of thought, stress, or overcommitment present in the professional sphere.

This day is an invitation to better understand yourself—without judgment or guilt—to strengthen your inner stability, mental energy, and relationships with others.

All of this within a deeply human spirit, guided by a pedagogy that blends scientific rigor, compassionate listening… and that special French touch: a love of precise words, a sense of sharing, and valuing pleasure as a driver of transformation.

A valuable and cross-cutting experience, as useful personally as professionally, that will leave a lasting impact on your team.

Two Programs to Choose From

Program 1: Brain and Motivation – Better Self-Knowledge for Better Collaboration

  • A dynamic and warm welcome in an atmosphere conducive to exchange, featuring the game “Two Truths, One Lie?” revamped with a nutrition & health habits twist—a true French-style brain appetizer.
  • Interactive icebreaker to humorously debunk common myths about weight, stress, and motivation.
  • Workshop “Brain on Autopilot”: Better understand how our mental routines influence our daily behaviors… often without us even realizing it.
  • The Hunger Game: Learning to distinguish true hunger from cravings driven by stress or emotions—a classic, finely reimagined.
  • Exploration of different sources of motivation: intrinsic, extrinsic, and overinvestment, allowing each participant to identify their personal drivers.
  • Concrete exercises to better manage mental load and emotional vulnerabilities, without pressure or perfectionism.
  • Group work carried out with kindness, to initiate new landmarks and leave with habits that are more aligned, fairer… and more sustainable.
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9:00 AM – Fun Start & Awareness Building

Start the day with energy and friendliness thanks to two original icebreakers:

  • Two Truths and a Lie game focused on nutrition and health habits

  • A neurobehavioral icebreaker designed to gently dismantle common myths about weight, stress, and motivation

All done in small groups, supported by an interactive Kahoot quiz to encourage exchange and create a collective dynamic from the very first minutes.


9:30 AM – The Brain on Autopilot: When It Decides for Us

An interactive workshop to understand how our eating behaviors are influenced by our mental automatic patterns:

  • Identification of your automatic eater profile through an individual questionnaire

  • Pair debrief session

  • Exploration of the brain’s two operating modes: automatic vs. adaptive

  • Key concepts: decision fatigue, pursuit of immediate reward, unconscious patterns

A meaningful moment to gain a fresh perspective on your daily choices.


10:45 AM – Light and Tasty Break

A moment to breathe, share, and absorb the initial insights.


11:00 AM – The Hunger Game: Real or Emotional Hunger?

How to distinguish real hunger from cravings linked to stress or emotions? This fun and introspective module offers you:

  • A quiz and experience-sharing sessions

  • The 6 Most Common Motivations Behind Our Cravings

  • An exploration of the connection between emotions and physiological needs, often confused by the brain

An essential tool to regain control over your eating behaviors.


12:30 PM – Mindful Lunch

A friendly meal to put into practice what you’ve just learned:

  • Sensory test of a food to awaken your senses

  • Introduction to Mindful Eating
    A moment to savor differently and reconnect with forgotten sensations.


2:00 PM – Better Know Yourself to Motivate Yourself Better

Learn to identify the different motivations that drive us, and how they influence our daily choices:

  • Interactive group quiz to introduce the topic

  • Focus on the 3 Types of Motivation:

    • Primary (based on a fundamental need)

    • Intrinsic (motivated by pleasure or meaning)

    • Extrinsic (motivated by a reward or external pressure)

  • Focus on overmotivation and overcommitment, often found in highly dedicated individuals.


3:15 PM – Managing Emotional Vulnerability Related to Overcommitment

Because trying too hard to do well can sometimes harm balance, this session offers:

  • A group discussion session on strategies for managing overcommitment

  • Individual work to identify your personal drivers

  • Keys to sustainably and healthily boost extrinsic motivation


5:00 PM – Group Conclusion: What I Take Away

A moment to firmly anchor the day’s learnings, in a positive and cheerful atmosphere:

  • Each participant shares their insight or new positive habit

  • A great way to leave with clarity, energy… and concrete tools to apply starting tomorrow.

Program 2: Performance and Balance Through Nutrition and Lifestyle

  • Fun welcome and icebreaker focused on common myths about the brain and nutrition.
  • Discovering the “Second Brain”: The Role of the Gut Microbiota in Stress Management.
  • Natural Hormonal Activations to Counteract Cortisol.
  • Key Principles of a Performance-Boosting Diet Tailored to Daily Professional Life.
  • Critical Analysis of Popular Diets: Benefits and Risks?
  • Experience sharing, practical tips, and group conclusion.
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9:30 AM – The Brain on Autopilot: Understanding Our Behaviors

An interactive workshop to discover how our brain drives our food choices without our conscious awareness:

  • Test: Identify Your Automatic Eater Profile

  • Pair debrief to share and discuss

  • Focus on the Two Main Mental Modes:

    • Automatic Mode (reactive, unconscious)

    • Adaptive Mode (thoughtful, conscious)

Key concepts covered: decision fatigue, immediate reward, evening routine (“I get home from work at 7 PM…”).


10:45 AM – Light and Refreshing Break (15 minutes)

A moment to relax your focus, stretch your legs, and absorb the initial insights.


11:00 AM – The Hunger Game: Real or Emotional Hunger?

An essential module to better listen to your body:

  • Quiz and experience-sharing on the 6 common motivations behind our food cravings (beyond actual hunger)

  • Understanding how the brain confuses emotion with physiological need

  • Learning to make the distinction to regain a calmer relationship with food


12:30 PM – Mindful Lunch & Awakening the Senses

A moment to experience:

  • A sensory test of a food to awaken the taste buds in a new way

  • An introduction to mindful eating, to reconnect with the simple pleasure of eating attentively


2:00 PM – Boost Your Performance with Your Brain & Your Plate

An afternoon dedicated to neuro-nutrition and overall balance:

  • Kahoot icebreaker on common myths about the “second brain”

  • Focus on the gut microbiota and its role in emotional balance

  • Understanding how our hormones influence energy and stress management (especially cortisol)

  • Focus on the brain–gut connection through the vagus nerve


3:30 PM – Nutrition for Your Balance

A simple and practical workshop to sort through nutritional information:

  • The basics of a healthy and accessible diet

  • “Performance” foods to easily incorporate into your daily routine

  • Critical look at popular diets: risks and benefits?


5:00 PM – Group Conclusion: What I Take Away

A compassionate sharing moment to solidify what’s been learned:

  • Each participant chooses a new positive habit to implement

  • Open exchanges and shared inspirations to leave feeling motivated, aligned, and enlightened

Practical Details

  • Duration: Full day (9:00 AM–5:00 PM) including breaks and lunch

  • Number of Participants: Maximum 15 people to encourage interactivity and quality exchanges

  • Location: We conduct the session in your host country, in a venue suited to your context

  • Included: Memo sheets and repeatable exercises

Book your day today!

Whether to strengthen cohesion through better self-understanding or to explore the connection between nutrition, stress, and performance, this day led by Cathy Nagat will provide your employees with practical keys to apply daily, all within a spirit of kindness and lasting transformation.

Offered as part of an international tour, this French-language day focused on “Neuroscience and Nutrition” is held in several major cities worldwide. For each location, we schedule a limited number of dates—usually between three and four per city—to ensure optimal organization and quality support.

Contact us now to find out our upcoming dates in your city and offer your team a valuable time of sharing and vitality, crafted with all the subtlety of French culture.

The number of groups is intentionally limited to maintain a privileged exchange environment, so we encourage you to contact us now to book your day in your city.

ESPECIALLY FOR YOU:
  • A fun and participative activity to start the day with lightness and collective intelligence—in a warm, friendly, and refined atmosphere, true to the French spirit of hospitality, where sharing becomes an art and cohesion, a natural outcome.
  • Simple, concrete tools elegantly delivered, easy to apply in both professional and personal daily life, to foster lasting well-being based on self-understanding, the joy of action, and emotional autonomy.
  • Tailored support combining kindness, pedagogical finesse, and expert know-how to make this day far more than a workshop: a precious, deeply human, subtly transformative—and unmistakably French experience.

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