Challenge-Readiness
Resilience is about how you respond to challenges. Prosilience is about how you intentionally prepare yourself to deal with them.
About The Book
Everyone encounters challenges in life. While some can be energizing and exciting, others are difficult and draining. You can learn to overcome adversity by understanding the elements of resilience and deliberately practicing them. Bringing together insights from a wide range of fields including psychology, neuroscience, physiology, and spirituality, Prosilience: Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World helps you assess your readiness for challenge and design a plan to become even stronger.You will learn:
* How to assess a challenge so you can better prepare to deal with it
* The importance of paying attention to “micro-challenges”
* Why calming down is the first step to a resilient response—and how to do it
* Three strategies for dealing with challenges—and how to select the best one
* Seven resilience muscles that help you solve problems—and exercises to strengthen them
* Four kinds of energy that power your resilience—and how to build and replenish them
* Tools and exercises for building your Prosilience Plan
About the author
Dr. Linda Hoopes is an organizational psychologist who has studied resilience in the workplace for over 30 years. She has worked in for-profit, non-profit and government organizations, and has trained a global network of resilience practitioners who help individuals, teams, and organizations increase their readiness for change and challenge.
Linda has served on the faculties of Georgia Tech, Rutgers, and Colby College. She led the development of resilience tools and curriculum as the research director for a change consulting firm, and is also a sailor, musician, photographer, and certified massage therapist.
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