What is resilience, and why does it matter? Resilience is the ability to stay calm in high levels of change and challenge, to bounce back when something difficult happens, to face up to a problem and find a good solution. It’s a set of skills to help you maintain your...
The Seven Seeds Ecosystem Model: Cultivating resilience and sustainability for people and organisations The Seven Seeds is a unique approach using parallels with cultivated ecosystems to help individuals, teams and organisations to grow their resilience and their...
This quick questionnaire will help your current levels of resilience, which have a big influence on your general happiness. Write down your score from 1 to 10 for each question… A. Nourishing your roots Using the tree test, are your roots, trunk and...
This guided visualisation is a great way to picture a vision or goal, feel your passion for it, and let go of your attachment to an outcome. Pink Bubble Technique This mediation is simple and wonderfully effective. Exercise: Sit or lie down comfortably, close your...
This tool is an invitation to map your progress over time, including the ups and downs, and to celebrate both, and see if there are any cycles involved. During my 20 years in business management and my Harvard MBA studies, progress was always defined as linear...
Cultivating a garden takes some dedication and skill, and friendships need this too. One of the big improvements in my 50s and 60s has been more and better friendships. These friendships oil the gearbox of life: lubricating changes and crises which could be...