Being resilient is about practicing in the every-day of our lives and work; it is not a place we get to arrive at nor a place where we can permanently reside. Resiliency does not make us immune to life’s challenges. Rather, it lets us venture and evolve using all of our strengths in the most challenging of times.
Resilience Reset is an opportunity to focus on the strengths we bring to creating an appreciative resilience practice. Grounded in Appreciative Inquiry, appreciative resilience is a powerful practice that explores how leaders can cultivate hope, uplift strengths in times of despair, and foster forgiveness as part of their resilience practice.
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RESILIENCE AS A PRACTICE | UPLIFTING STRENGTHS | ALTERING OUR GAZE |
October 10, 2024 | October 17, 2024 | October 24, 2024 |
9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT | 9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT | 9:00am-10:00am PDT 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT 4:00pm-5:00pm GMT |
Resilience Reset is a 3-part virtual series designed to help leaders dwell in what is happening at this moment in history and find ways to sustain themselves and their organizations. Join Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell for a highly interactive conversation about resilience in our complex world. During these sessions, Jeanie and Joan will curate topics from their resilience work and invite topics from participants. Brief descriptions for each session are listed below.
Participants will engage in a dynamic conversation about the ways in which they can amplify and uplift their strengths in challenging times. This session:
A powerful conversation on how hope is the cornerstone of an appreciative resilience practice. This session:
A deeply crafted conversation on the role of forgiveness in appreciative resilience. In this last session, participants will:
These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You will receive the Zoom meeting information upon registration. It will be listed in your confirmation email. To optimize your learning experience, we highly recommend participating in this course using a laptop or desktop computer.
This virtual series is built upon the book, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness (2018) written by Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell.
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a widely used change approach that emphasizes identifying what’s working well in a system. Leaders can use AI to increase their ability to weather the storms they’ll inevitably encounter and be resilient. A profound guide, this book features personal accounts from leaders across a variety of settings describing how they’ve practiced appreciative resilience in the ongoing cycle of hope, despair, and forgiveness.