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How to Face the Mess We're In: A Transformational Resilience Toolkit

At a time of general fearfulness about the future, this AC webinar series will explore how to support ourselves and our clients to take action for positive change. 

Led by Dr Chris Johnstone, “How to Face the Mess We're In” will take you through Chris’ transformational resilience toolkit that will equip you to prepare for what may lie ahead and respond in ways that make better versions of what might happen become more likely.

Transformational Resilience goes beyond just adapting to or recovering from periods of disturbance.

This webinar series offers tools and concepts including adversity-activated development, pre-traumatic growth, and a narrative framework mapping out different types of Resilience. 

Who is this webinar series for?

New and experienced coaches, Executive Coaches, Personal or Career Coaches, Health Coaches, Supervisors, Leader Coaches, HR /OD professionals and Internal Coaches. 

In this webinar series, you will learn:

·       How to apply a preparation stage of change that strengthens your capacity to face and respond to disturbing realities and help your clients do this too

·       To employ frameworks that help you hold space for courageous conversations about concerns in ways that help people tap into their deeper motivation and purpose

·       To draw upon change-making tools and practices that build a sense of agency and possibility when people are experiencing powerlessness, despair or overwhelm

·       To recognize the system dynamic of overshoot and collapse in individuals, teams, organizations, societies, and ecosystems and be able to identify choice points for recovery at each of these levels

·       To use creative visioning tools that help people find their unique part to play in the challenges of our time so that they can feel more engaged

Description of each webinar

Webinar 1: The preparation stage of change

Have you ever not wanted to look at a problem because it feels too disturbing? Or wondered whether a client feels this way? 

If so, having a ‘preparation stage of change’ can build trust, safety, and a stronger starting point from which to approach challenging areas. 

This first webinar explores ways of resourcing ourselves, with network enhancement and gratitude practices shown to protect mental health, build Resilience and strengthen motivation to act for collective wellbeing. 

 
Webinar 2: Facing the storm

‘The mess we’re in’ refers to a breakdown in functioning or recognition that we may be heading this way. 

Whether with climate change, financial crisis, organizational collapse or the experience of burnout, there's a departure from a safe territory as we head into the 'red zone' of challenge. 

This webinar explores how we can support ourselves and our clients when they sense things are falling apart. The session introduces practices that help us navigate the emotional rollercoaster of crisis and make turning points towards recovery more likely.

Webinar 3: Helping shift points happen

Have you ever believed that something would never be possible for you but later found yourself doing it? 

A shift point is an occasion of significant progress in a more extensive journey of change. This webinar explores game-changing insights about how personal and systems-level change happens, challenging the limiting belief that we can’t change the world. We look at practices that make shift points more likely to use ourselves and share with our clients.

Webinar 4: Everyone has a unique part to play

If you knew you could not fail and had all the courage you might need, what would you most want to do to address the issues that concern you? Is there a particular hope that calls to you? 

This webinar introduces ‘inner compass tools’ that help us find our direction when feeling lost or unclear. Applying a growth mindset to change-making skills, we look at ‘active hope’ as a practice for collective wellbeing we can engage in daily, even when facing areas where we might struggle to feel hopeful. 

Preparation

No preparation is required before joining; however, Chris recommends two books as companions for this webinar series:
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power   by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone (new edition published July 2022, New World Library)

Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing  by Bob Doppelt (Routledge, 2016)

Active Learning

Participants are invited to try out a practice between sessions to help embed the theory and change methods into their existing practice.

Resources

Registered participants will gain access to the webinar recordings and slides after each session, along with resources from the speaker, such as pdf handouts for each webinar.

Speaker Bio 

With nearly forty years of experience teaching skills that help us address adversity, Dr Chris Johnstone is one of the UK’s leading resilience trainers.  With a background in medicine, psychology and coaching, his online resilience courses reach people from more than sixty countries.

His books include Seven Ways to Build Resilience and Active Hope (new edition 2022, co-authored with Joanna Macy). 

Programme Price

AC members: £95 + VAT

Non-AC member: Pay £155 + VAT (includes one-year AC Associate Membership)

This price includes:

• 4  x 90-minute interactive webinars with Dr Chris Johnstone
• Pre or post resources to explore the concepts and apply your learning
• Recordings of all webinars and a copy of the slides for your library
• A Continuous Professional Development (6 CPD hours) Certificate at the end of the programme
• One-year Associate Membership with the Association for Coaching (if you are not already a member)
  

For any questions, please contact us at digitallearning@associationforcoaching.com.