Prepare your SELF for a market correction Wobbly times strike our global markets. Abundant advice is pushed on how to protect your financial assets (63,800,000 on Google today). What about you? Not your money, your company, your home or your investments but your fundamental core value driver – Y O U. Your physical body, your emotions […]
Change-Grow-Transform
In this Resilience Insight we look at how we harness the mind to change-grow-transform. Change – a tale of two systems Change is not straightforward – our default position is to operate much of the time on ‘auto pilot’ playing out behaviours that are well established without even thinking about them too much. The brain […]
Flow Expertise at Work
In the recent Cricket World Cup, Grant Elliot hit a six and took New Zealand to the final. When asked what was in his mind when he hit the ball, without hesitation he said: “NOTHING.” On the brink of loss, he finds FLOW and transforms the hopes of a nation. Flow is a biological state […]
How women can make it happen
International Women’s day will be celebrated on March 8 with the theme of ‘Make it Happen.’ How resilient we are – our ability to bounce back, have courage, foster creativity and build connection has a direct impact on our level of performance and reaching our potential. At the Resilience Institute we believe we have a […]
Strategic Resilience
“Existence … is a creative advance into novelty.” Alfred North Whitehead, 1929. Since our ancestor Lucy started the hominin line 3.2 million years ago, humanity has become a pulsing 7.2 billion population of creative forces. Today, Lucy would be over whelmed . Organisations at the front edge of creativity, endlessly redefine our perceptions, behaviours and […]
Slow Down
Life is in hyper-drive. Our default is to go faster, do more and strive higher. Evidence shows we have passed the point of diminishing returns. We have lost our minds – and maybe our bodies – to overload and confusion. The solution is to SLOW DOWN. The payback is great – higher productivity, creativity, health, […]
Discerning Minds: take in the good
Richard Whitney reviews a workshop with Dr Rick Hanson a Neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom, (2009). In a nutshell the challenge is to train our minds to favour a responsive and positive bias in attention, emotion and memory. Hanson describes the brain in three (Triune) layers. […]
Resilience and Intensity
There is a view that Resilience will only emerge if we are tested beyond our comfort zone. At times we are thrown into adversity or novelty. Today, we must volunteer for the experience. We will explore intense practices to test and build resilience of body, heart, mind and spirit. Hypothesis: growth, development, and specifically our […]
Awaken your Mind
Our minds are being tested well beyond the limits of “normal”. The global market is complex, fluid and furiously competitive. The information density confronts the functional limits of our mind. All too often the result is overload, confusion and mindlessness. We pay in missed opportunity, error, conflict, sleep disruption, anxiety, and frustration. We suffer! Leaders […]