Leading Libraries Series: Leading for Resilience

 

Emotional Resilience

 

Resource list

 

Web accessible articles

The value of recovery:

Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan, Resilience is about how you recharge, not how you endure, Harvard Business Review, June 2016

More on bouncing back:

Joshua D. Margolis and Paul Stoltz, How to bounce back from adversity, Harvard Business Review, February 2010

Recovering from shocks - understanding vagus nerve regulation:

The Cut, I now suspect the vagus nerve is the key to wellbeing.

A helpful article on using the breath to recover from shocks

Human Givens Institute, 7-11 breathing

 

Videos

Specific techniques for stress management and physical recovery from shocks:

Rewiring the Anxious Brain from ‘Therapy in a nutshell’ from Emma McAdam (who has loads of excellent resources on resilience subjects in her YouTube stream)

Shaking and grounding exercise from ‘Deeper into Life’ Deepika Sheleff

Increasing vagal nerve tone for long term resilience from ‘Be your dance’ Deb Grant

A well-founded guided meditation to introduce 7-11 breathing from Abigail Darling at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham

 

Reflective exercises

You may choose to download the documents below to complete offline:

Dealing with stress emotions - reflecting on your own tendencies

Recovery cycle exercises

 

Congratulations!

You have reached the end of this section and come to the end of this module. Congratulations on completing the e-learning.

This is the second of a set of five Leading for Resilience modules within the Leading Libraries Series.

You can continue to the next module in this set by clicking on the link below

 

Continue to: Mental resilience

 

To choose one of the other modules in the Leading for Resilience set click on the links below

• Introduction
• Relationship resilience
• Social resilience