Life is a voyage of discovery at home, at work and in the VUCA (Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous) world. Does your journey sometimes present significant or overwhelming challenges? This session will shine the spotlight on the top 5 qualities that can strengthen our ability to ‘lean into' life's surprises and experiences. The Building Success webinar series has been designed to provide practical advice and tools for women innovators. The series explores topics ranging from marketing through to intellectual property, funding & finance and HR & recruitment.

1. Building Success:
Resilience
28th of October
#womeninnovate

2. The purpose of today…
…To encourage fresh thinking on resilience!
“The quality of everything we do relies on the quality of the thinking we do first”
Nancy Kline

3. What is resilience?
What does resilience
mean for you?
“Resilience is building capability to embrace and learn from situations that enable us to
grow and develop and become even stronger as people: for ourselves, the people around
us and the systems we are responsible for”

4. Our strong brain and resilience
“The illiterate of the twenty-first century
will not be those who can’t read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn”
Alvin Toffler

5. 5 Qualities : 10 Behaviours
commitment
focus positively
act purposefully
courage
live bravely
seek growth
coherence
know self
take control
connections
invite exchange
adapt approach
compassion
stay healthy
serve others
The Resilience Multiplier Model
A ‘coat hanger’ model based on extensive academic and applied research
It is called the Resilience Multiplier because if we embrace these 5 qualities
and 10 behaviours, it is a resilience ‘booster’

6. Resilience Quality Compassion
Behaviours:
Stay healthy - Looks after physical and emotional well-being
Serve others - Connects and engages with society
Exercise: Wide Angled Empathy
Without becoming judgemental and opinionated think of someone who tests your resilience.
Notice your bodily (somatic) reaction.
Breathe in and out
Now stand in your open hearted stance - put your shoulders back, lift your head slightly and extend
your ams outward - think of that person again with compassion
How does your somatic response change?
Take a deep breath in and out
Now open your thumbs so they are pointing skyward, as if you were thumbing a lift and raise
your arms again - Really channel your open heart and compassion
How does your reaction change again?
And keep breathing deeply
What do you notice about the before and after?
commitment
courage coherence
connections
compassion

7. Resilience Quality Coherence
Behaviours:
Know self - Is self-aware and able to proactively and consciously regulate emotions
Take control - Manages situations in own sphere of control and able to let go of those
outside
Exercise: The circle of concern and influence (Stephen Covey)
Think of a challenge that you have either at the moment, or in the past,
that is testing your resilience.
Think about what you can influence and what’s concerning you that you
can let go of?
commitment
courage coherence
connections
compassion
coherence

8. Resilience Quality Commitment
Behaviours:
Focus positively - Defaults to a positive outlook, while taking into account a realistic
view
Act purposefully - Remains true to self and greater purpose in behaviour and action in
all contexts
Exercise: Big Rocks
Source unknown, popularized by The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
What or who are your big rocks?
commitment
courage coherence
connections
compassion

9. Resilience Quality Connections
Behaviours:
Invite exchange - Reaches out to others to give and receive support
Adapt approach - Flexes and adapts mindsets as circumstances change and new
information or understanding is gained
Exercise: Nourishing People
Who are your nourishing people?
What do they give you?
How can you cultivate these relationships?
commitment
courage coherence
connections
compassion

10. Resilience Quality Courage
Behaviours:
Live bravely - Looks for opportunities to do things differently/better and ready to
take thoughtful risks
Seek growth - Consciously seeks to develop/grow self and those around them so
that they thrive and perform in an ever-changing environment
Exercise: For me to be truly resilient….?
Who am I being?
What am I thinking?
What am I doing?
commitment
courage coherence
connections
compassion
courage

11. Let’s reflect…
…on our fresh thinking on resilience!
“What do you know now that you didn’t before?”

12. Inspirational Resources
• Dare to Lead - Brave work. Tough conversations. Whole hearts: Brené Brown
• Daring Greatly - How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent and lead: Brené
Brown
• She Speaks - The power of women’s voices: Yvette Cooper
• Untamed - Stop pleasing, start living: Glennon Doyle
• Resilient Grieving - Finding strength and embracing life after a loss that changes everything: Lucy Hone
• Lisa Nichols on Rescuing Yourself, Overcoming Fear, and Finding Success By Serving Others
• The Source - Open your mind, change your life: Dr Tara Swart
• Embodiment - Moving beyond mindfulness: Mark Walsh
• Your own journalling - i.e. to think about our thinking and notice what we become aware of

13. Any curiosities or insights?
What are you wondering?

14. KTN Women in Innovation
Coaches in Residence
Nic Willcocks
nic@nwcoaching.co.uk
07792 554452
www.nwcoaching.co.uk
www.mamacoaching.org
Vic Coxen
victoria@coxenconsultandcoach.com
07812 037728
www.coxenconsultandcoach.com
Mary Ely
mary@mezza.me.uk
07762185068
www.mezza.me.uk
Lorna Clarke
lorna@exploringhumanpotential.com
07715 170334
www.ExploringHumanPotential.com

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Online Community:
www.worldlabs.org/womenininnovation
Email: siwan.smith@ktn-uk.org
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