Anger mastery transforms your life and our world While treating a music industry executive for dangerously high blood pressure, I noticed that in the mornings it was high and in the afternoons almost normal. This man loved his job and was otherwise very healthy. One afternoon after a normal reading, he told me about his road […]
Presence, Flow and Eudaimonia
Purpose for Resilience As a young doctor, it seemed that the science and practice applied to save lives, might have another purpose. Medical and biological sciences could be applied to improve and optimise life. The vision took me into Sports Medicine and then Resilience. However, most clients have us pegged as the bounce or “tough […]
What Surfing Teaches Us About Resilience
Surfing teaches patience, mindfulness, courage and persistence, without the surfer realising that they are developing essential life skills. From a subversive subculture in the sixties, surfing has gone mainstream, and has even found success as an effective form of therapy. When an individual begins surfing, elusive highs are sparingly interspersed between tenuous struggles, sometimes for survival. […]
Team Flow on the Water
6 Principles for team performance The America’s Cup puts talent, technology, fitness and team flow in the spotlight. This is complex team performance. Perhaps, we might apply these lessons in the workplace. At speeds over 70km per hour, surfing razor-like margins on space-age technology, the challenge to each team is intense. Mastering the new generation […]
How to Master Your Day like a Resilient Professional
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Resilient Leadership in a Nutshell
Insight, mastery, connection and influence Resilience searches are booming and many definitions exist. We believe it is a learned ability to demonstrate bounce, courage, connection and creativity. This set of skills is closely interrelated. Bounce requires courage, connection and creativity. Equally, creativity requires bounce, courage and connection. While interrelated, cultivating resilient leadership is a journey that […]
Why Resilience and What Does it Mean to You?
In this interview Dr Sven Hansen and Declan Scott discuss the idea of resilience and the role it has played in Declan’s life. Declan joined the Resilience team in 2015 and brings practical experience from both the professional practice field across a number of countries to hands on business knowledge in owning and growing a […]
5 dietary principles for optimal performance
Declan Scott and Dr Sven Hansen sit down to discuss diet, nutrition, keto-adaptation, ethical eating and five key dietary guiding principles. Join us now for this first edition of Resilient Conversations. Dr Sven’s five dietary guiding principles for optimal performance Vegetables – eat 9 – 13 servings per day (each serving fits in the palm of your […]
Empathy: have we taken it too far?
Distorted and short-sighted or the solution for our lives and our planet? First, I recommend that you read both of these masterful books before you judge. Paul Bloom has put the cat amongst the pigeons with one book that stands against a wave of 1,500 plus books on empathy. We have gorged on empathy. We […]