Increasing Your Resilience

About

This exciting programme has been developed with the specific aim of equipping you with a much greater degree of control over your drive, energy, moods, and motivation. Few would disagree that the pace of change in business and society will not slow down, and that the pressures coming on business and community leaders will increase rather than lessen in the future.

Given that perceived adversities are on the increase, what is it that will provide the resilience needed to do more than survive? What is it that will enable leaders and others to thrive in these circumstances?

There is no silver bullet for solving these problems, but through application of proven principles you can begin developing a psychological immunity to the damaging effects of pressure and stress. Rise above the otherwise damaging consequences of demanding objectives and hectic schedules, and make more valuable contributions to your organisation, and to the quality of your own lives!

The skills learned during this programme are “sticky”, and participants are often astounded at how quickly they take effect, and the dramatically positive changes that take place within a short time.

Key learning objectives
By attending this seminar you will learn how to:
• Master your moods and motivation
• Reduce the impact of the negativity of others
• Maintain your composure in face of provocation and failure
• Take ownership of the consequences of your thoughts and feelings
• Apply a range of psychological skills to everyday situations
• Innoculate yourself psychologically against the debilitating effects of depression
• Bounce back quickly from adversities and setbacks
• Leverage your wins and successes
• Overcome “Learned Pessimism”

Training style
Extensive use will be made of case studies over the two-day programme. Participants are invited to bring situations, scenarios or cases, that they would most like to discuss and develop new strategies for, during this programme. Each participant will receive a detailed workbook and certificate of completion.  

Who should attend?
• Those in high pressure demanding roles
• Those whose work involves a lot of, or frequent change
• Those who work to demanding deadlines
• Those who find their moods being pushed around by the whims of others
• Those who need to learn to stand up against bullying

TESTIMONIALS

Past particpants of this course have said:

“I came in with burdens that I thought were permanent, I now feel that the load is gone and I feel free”
Christine Miles, Assistant Village Manager, Vision Senior Living

"Very skilled presenter, very able to comment from training to work/life"

"Great technique involving participants in a comfortable environment"

"Encouraged participation from everybody, gave real-life scenarios. Provided material which can be referred to at a later date and references/literature which can be read later to further knowledge/interest in subjects/research discussed"

"Enjoyed Jamie's style and his ability to appropriately challenge my thinking"

Outline

DAY ONE
 
8.30 Registration

The explanatory style theory of motivation
• What it is
• Why it matters
• Dr. Seligman’s research
• How to measure it
• Testing your explanatory style
• Why Kiwi’s have a pessimistic explanatory style and how it limits resilience, and predicts less than optimum results

Exploring your automatic reactions to adversity and success
• What adversities and success have you encountered and how did you react?
• Where do moods and motivation come from?
• How explanations affect mood and motivation
• Lessons from cognitive psychology
• Why no-one can upset you, or make you angry or stressed. Only you can do it to yourself

Key dimensions of optimism and pessimism
• The Seligman model of optimism
• 3 dimensions of reactions to adversity and success
• Understanding the origins of hope and hopelessness
• The role of language
• Thought catching and thought changing

DAY TWO

7 key skills for thriving in adversity

Back to basics I
• Describing events that cause a rush of emotion
• Documenting the emotions and actions
• Identifying habits of thinking

Back to basics II
• Testing assumptions
• Disputing erroneous thinking
• Building momentum

Clearing the fog of untested thought distortions
• Where’s the real evidence that would persuade a judge and jury
• Trying out alternative explanations
• Running the most constructive explanation up the flagpole of motivation
• Testing your thinking for usefulness and helpfulness
• De-personalising intentions (If they had a flip top head...)

Reality checking the probability of best and worst outcomes
• How Kiwi’s love to “catastrophise” and what you can do about it

Facing down the dirty dozen habits of negativity
• Giving up childish thinking concepts
• Powering up adult thinking concepts

Digging out and replacing harmful and hurtful beliefs
• If it’s not working - stop it
• Living above the line and taking ownership

Finding your wall, and moving beyond It
• We all have one - what’s yours; that really big stumbling block

Action planning
• The 21-day process for new habit formation

Increasing your resilience
• How to thrive in adversity and soar in success

Facilitator

Jamie Ford, NZ’s foremost attitude coach

Jamie has had an extensive career in the field of Learning & Development, having worked in industries ranging from Public Health to the Dairy Industry.

He set up his own consultancy in 2004, and has a broad range of clients across the spectrum of industry and commerce.

A specialist in attitude change, Jamie has many coaching clients who make use of his deep understanding of how to make personal changes, and how to develop more Emotional Intelligence (EQ). He was the first person in the Southern Hemisphere to be accredited in EQ by the International EQ consulting firm, Essi Systems of USA.

Through his close alliance with the Optimism Project Team at the University of Pennsylvania, Jamie is able to demonstrate the practical application of the ongoing research in how Explanatory Style has a profound influence on all aspects of life.

In his day-to-day consulting work Jamie’s motto is, “Developing Tomorrow’s Achievers Today”.

In-house Training

Prices and Registration

* Early bird price available when you register and pay before the dates listed.