Resilience Awareness Sessions

Looking to bring resilience to your organization?

A talk or keynote is an excellent, low-commitment way to improve organizational awareness of resilience. A speaking engagement provides clear common language to ground participants in mutual understanding of the effects of stress on health and performance. Below you can see a list of options for Awareness Sessions.

Resilience and Mental Health

Resilience: The Key to Psychological Health and Safety

Rebound with Resilience: Navigating Change, Loss, and Disruption

Discovering Resilience: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Mental Fitness: The Game Changer

Stronger Together: Building Team Resilience

Inspiring a Culture of Resilience

COVID: Whats Next? Maintaining Resilience and Well-Being

Custom Talks and Keynotes

Resilience and Mental Health

In this deeply insightful and compelling talk, participants develop insights into our universal psychological needs and the origins of mental illness. How to recognize the signs of distress and where to turn are discussed. Breaking the silence, challenging stigmatizing beliefs, and introducing a personally empowering new approach to building and sustaining mental health and resilience, AIR faculty brings new hope and possibility to our collective well-being. This talk is a much-needed breath of fresh AIR!

Resilience: The Key to Psychological Health and Safety

Resilience brings the promise of better psychological health and performance. Building resilience upstream, equips individuals with the psychological strength they need to protect their brains against stress, increase psychological health, and prevent physical illness and injury.

Key Concepts Covered:

  • ILLNESS
  • MENTAL HEALTH
  • PREVENTION 
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

Rebound with Resilience: Navigate the Stress of Change and Disruption

Together we experience the emotion required to work through the grief cycle inherent in any change, loss or transition.

Key Concepts Covered: 

  • EMOTIONAL LITERACY  
  • CONTAINMENT 
  • GRIEF PROCESSING 
  • POSSIBILITY

Discovering Resilience: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Resilience is a capacity, a process, and an outcome! It exists on many levels. Tools and resources can be acquired and developed for staying strong through stressful times.   

Key Concepts Covered: 

  • RESILIENCE 
  • ISOMORPHY  
  • ADVERSITY 
  • NEUROPLASTICITY 

Inspiring a Culture of Resilience – Promoting a culture of resilience

Leaders need to understand the importance of a wholistic, systemic approach. Empowerment begins with vision, courage, systemic awareness, and organizational sustainability.   

Key Concepts Covered: 

  • VALUES 
  • ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE 
  • STEWARDSHIP AND SUCCESSION 
  • SUSTAINABILITY

Mental Fitness: The Game Changer

The Be Fit Framework and the paradigm of mental fitness offer the promise of resilience. Overview the 16 essential factors and the skills that underscore resilience!  

Key Concepts Covered: 

  • PARADIGM SHIFT  
  • MENTAL FITNESS  
  • 16 RESILIENCE SKILLS 
  • RESILIENCE MINDSET 

Stronger Together: Building Team Resilience

The promise of resilience for teams requires a deep understanding of team dynamics, development, and conflict.  

Key Concepts Covered:  

  • RADICAL AUTHENTICITY  
  • EMPATHY AND TRUST  
  • TEAM WORK  
  • PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY

    COVID: Whats Next? Maintaining Resilience and Well-Being

    In the face of crisis and disaster, individuals struggle with fear, anxiety, frustration and loss. In this reassuring and validating talk, shared stressors are acknowledged, experiences normalized, and reactions naturalized. Practical tips and strategies are shared to help you refuel, restore and regain a sense control.

    Key Concepts Covered:

    • SELF-COMPASSION
    • COPING TIPS AND STRATEGY
    • HOPE
    • RECOVERY

    Custom Talks and Keynotes

    Tailored Sessions to meet you organization or event needs and theme.

    “Viewing our team’s strengths and challenges through a lens of capacities that can be built upon, as opposed to focusing on flaws, has made me hopeful for our future!”

    Foundations of Resilience Participant

    “Meeting was truly fantastic today, they did so much amazing sharing! We had a couple tears but all very supportive and empowering breakthroughs in areas they want to work on. My heart is so full. Thank you so much for this opportunity!
    The workplace is craving this type of personal development opportunities for teams.”

    Senior Manager at Atlantic Insurance Company

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Who are these packages for?

    These packages are relevant to any business, organization, or team that are looking to:

    • Promote a growth mindset at work
    • Reduce absenteeism or presenteeism
    • Foster teamwork and communication
    • Have confidence in the health of your workforce
    • Improve productivity and engagement
    • Retain personnel
    • Develop culture of psychological strength and safety
    • Increase profits over the long term

    If you would like to know how resilience training can benefit your team, business or organization, please contact us.

    Why should I invest in a package for my organization?

    The cost of poor mental health in the workplace is astronomical:

    • “the economic cost in Canada is estimated at 50 billion yearly
    • the indirect cost of lost productivity is 6 billion annually

    Companies with a positive ROI tended to focus investment across the spectrum of mental health”

    Source: The ROI in workplace mental health programs: Good for people, good for business, Deloitte Insights

    Your organization is unlikely to be exempt from the staggering direct and indirect costs of poor mental health (and fitness!). 

    To maximize your team’s potential – innovative and proactive programs are required to promote health and performance and mitigate the risk of illness and injury.

    Please contact us to see how we can help your organization become more resilient.

    What package is suitable for my organization?

    We have a variety of resiliency training packages, ranging in price, time-commitment, resilience-building power and assessment rigor.

    Disclaimer:

    We do not operate in the clinical realm of psychology (counselling, clinical or psychiatry). We do not assist in the diagnosing or treatment of mental illness. If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of mental illness, please contact the appropriate health professionals.

    These programs are designed for adults only. 

    Please contact us to determine what package is suitable for your business, organization or team.

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