Thriving in Our Profession: Mastering Resilience

MBA Bench Bar & Boardroom

May 2015

Linda Warren Seely JD

Kathy Story MA JD

Story Consulting and Coaching

At Our Best

Recall a time when you were at your best in your work.

Share three words or phrases to describe that experience with your partner.

We get more of

what we focus on

Resilience

SelfAwareness

Resilience Skills

The Resilience Triangle

• Strengths• Energy Sources and Sappers

• Restorative Activities• Mindfulness• Learned Optimism• Feedback• Networking• Learning Journal• Gratitude Journal

Finding Meaning

Connecting

Positive Framing

Managing Energy

Enga

ging

Engaging

Engaging

Meaning

Signature Strength:Feels true to selfCan’t help but use itMotivation intrinsicFeel energized

Job Crafting

Don't ask yourself what the world needs;

ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that.

Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.

Dr. Howard Thurman

Managing Energy

Restorative Power of Nature

FLOW

When I am in New York,

I want to be in Europe, and when I

am in Europe, I want to be

in New York.Woody Allen

Managing Energy

Positive Framing

Optimists

see life more realistically

Pessimism &DownwardSpiral Thinking:

Rumination,WastesEnergy

Learned Optimism

Gratitude Journal

Positive Framing

Connecting

Relationships: Trust

Emotions are Contagious

Connecting

Engagement

Burnout occurs when we lose

touch with our own personal and professional development

Robert Kegan, Ph.D.Harvard

Engagement

What has become

clearer to you about

resilience

since we began

our work together?