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A Leader's Guide to Personal Resilience:
Building Your Capacity to Contribute in Challenging Times
One, Two, and Three Day
Resilience Intensives
We live in extraordinary times. New dynamics, accelerating exponentially in complexity and consequence, are challenging the basic structures that shaped our lives. We need leaders who can make bold commitments, stay centered and calm in the midst of intensity, and lead the way toward a more sustainable, harmonious, and just world.
Presence-Based Resilience Intensives explore the power of resilience in a world buffeted by change. This seminar addresses the challenge of resilience explicitly and directly. You will have the opportunity to apply cutting edge tools, perspectives, and strategies to the challenge of cultivating your own resilience and capacity to lead. Workshops are built on a proven foundation of six mutually reinforcing elements central to building and maintaining a sense of possibility, perspective, and optimism. Intensives can be delivered in one, two, or three day formats.
Purpose
Build resilient, resourceful leaders with the capacity to lead and sustain change.
Who Should Attend
Middle and senior leaders with responsibility for leading and sustaining organizational change initiatives, who directly impact others, and who see investing in their personal resilience as key to their effectiveness.
Key Outcomes
- Distinguish, experience, and understand six key elements of resilience
- Apply these elements to your specific professional challenges
- Commit to a specific action plan to build your resilience over time
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Methodology
This dynamic and experiential workshop engages you in self-assessment, individual and group exercises, peer coaching sessions, and skill practices interspersed with group discussions and brief presentations. You will learn practical tools to manage yourself and build resilience, and integrate these into an action plan for take-home application.
One, Two, or Three Day Format?
Today’s fast-paced leaders expect maximum benefits from minimal investment; sometimes this works well, sometimes underinvestment will not produce the results you want. We are committed to working with leaders to shape an approach that will best match your goals.
The one-day format is built around an overview and a series of short experiences. Participants will leave with an understanding of the entire model and one or two concrete action steps.
Longer formats provide much greater immersion into the content. This includes working with application and live cases, peer coaching, coaching by faculty, development of robust take-home resilience strategies, and the exploration of each resilience element from multiple perspectives and learning modalities.
Because the development of resilience can only be learned through experience, it is strongly recommended that the longer formats be used whenever possible.
Faculty
Doug Silsbee, PCC, is a leadership coach, trainer of coaches, speaker and author in Asheville, NC. A master teacher, he has worked with leaders in major corporations, non-profits, small business and government in eleven countries on four continents. Doug is the author of The Mindful Coach (2004) and Presence-Based Coaching (2008.)
Bev Wann is a leadership development consultant, executive coach, facilitator and Nia instructor. She has offered training, coaching and consulting services to nonprofit, governmental and educational organizations for over 20 years. She is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.
For more information on Presence-Based Resilience Intensives please contact Doug.
We offer occasional three-day resilience retreats at Bend of Ivy Lodge, although none are currently scheduled. To receive notice of future resilience events, please subscribe here
