“Building Leadership Capacity through Resilience”
Event Agenda
- 5:00pm: Colonel Allison provides opening comments and introduction
- 5:02pm: Speaker Presentation & Q&A
- 6:00pm: Colonel Allison provides closing comments
Zoom Info: https://tamu.zoom.us/j/98922985386?pwd=bjZrNTlib0ppMWczWURKV0pjaFg0dz09
Meeting ID: 989 2298 5386 / Passcode: 996368
Goal & Objectives
- You will be able to define resilience in your own words.
- You will explore the role of resilience in self-actualization.
- You will neuroscience-based exercises to increase resilience.
- Create a personal three-point plan for resilience in action.
Talking Points and Resources from the Presentation
Why is addressing resilience important?
“Burnout represents an erosion in values, dignity, spirit, and will – an erosion of the human soul” ~ Christina Maslach
Panoramic Vision (Optic Flow) & Physiological Sighs. Scientific American article featuring Andrew Huberman.
Gallup: Currently, Americans’ Mental Health Self-Rating Drops by 9%, less than it has been over the last two decades. “American’s Mental Health Ratings Sink to New Low”
The Resilience@WORK Model
“Resilience involves being able to withstand and overcome adversity and unpleasant or difficult events successfully and to be able to adapt to change and uncertainty.” (McEwen, 2019)
Sustain 7
Reframe Dashboard
“… I look at the idea of ‘toughing it out’ or being stoic as both being a blessing and a curse for military men and women – a blessing in that it girds them form facing the horrors of war, a curse in that it promises a kind of invulnerability that cannot deliver and that leads to the undoing of the mind. Surprisingly, some ancient Stoics voiced similar worries about the costs of being too stoic. In the end, I argue for a gentle Stoicism that can still, in Seneca’s terms, ‘cultivate humanity.'” (Nancy Sherman, Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind)
Goal Creation Process
This goal process was adapted from Michael Bungay Stainer.
- Draft Goal – must be thrilling, important, and daunting.
- Rate Your Goal – on a scale of 1-7 how thrilling, important, and daunting is it?
- What are the leaks to the goal? – These become an excellent task list.
- Make the formula work – The Positive Emotional Attractor to Change must be greater than the Current Emotional Attractor to Stay the Same. PEA Δ > CEA/1
- Who do you become during the process? – What is important is not who you become when you succeed at this, but who you become during the process of achieving the goal.
“Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.” ~ Michael Gungor
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