Building Resiliency WELCOME Facilitated by Lee Riddell Director

Building Resiliency WELCOME! Facilitated by Lee Riddell, Director, SUNY Leadership Institute

What is Resiliency? • Provides the ability to recover quickly from change, hardship, or misfortune • Demonstrate flexibility, durability, an attitude of optimism, and openness to learn

Developing Resiliency Requires that you pay attention to: • The complexities of your experiences • Listen to your emotions • Be willing to learn from disappointment as well as success

How to Thrive in Times of Change “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. ” Lao Tzu philosopher of ancient China, Tao Te Ching author

Tiny Stories of Ordinary Resistance https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ujv. CEDwf. TX 0

What is My Degree of Resiliency? You have 5 minutes Complete the resiliency worksheet Reflect on your tiny story How does this new knowledge enlighten your story? Journal about this

Share Your Tiny Stories You have 5 minutes • Share with one other person • How do you deal with change using the questions on the resiliency worksheet as a guide? • Use an example

Experiment, Reflect, Learn, Adjust, and Share • View the 20 images alone and in quiet surroundings • Think about your tiny story • Record any responses to specific images – whether they draw you in or repel you

Group Discussion What are our Responses to Change? You have 20 minutes • As a group, discuss the images • Feel free to describe both what drew you in and what drew you away from the images • Identify key reflections, ideas, understandings or insights of the group • As a group, identify the image that conveys an aspect of building resilience to change • On flipchart, note image and insights

Exploring Greatness Together Co-creating more profound solutions As a group, staying with the colleagues at your table, walk around and explore other tables’ insights on their flipcharts. Add your comments and ideas to their charts.

Thoughts and Actions • • • Acceptance of Change Continuous Learning Self Empowerment Sense of Purpose Personal Identity Personal and Professional Networks Reflection Skill Shifting Self Worth – Relationship to Money

Journey