What if resilience isn’t about becoming tougher?
In Episode 172 of An Evolving Man Podcast, Piers Cross speaks with Russell Harvey, The Resilience Coach, about what genuine resilience looks like for leaders, teams and organisations.
Russell defines resilience as “springing forward with learning” rather than endlessly pushing through adversity. He describes the difference between surviving, coping and thriving, and explains why self-awareness, purpose, adaptability, support networks, energy and emotional intelligence all contribute to sustainable resilience. Pasted text
The conversation also explores a distinction particularly relevant to Piers’s boarding-school work: resilience versus dissociation. If someone learns to suppress emotion, disconnect and simply endure, that may look strong externally while being very different from genuine resilience internally. Pasted text
Piers and Russell also discuss toxic positivity, psychological safety, strengths-based leadership, purpose, team culture and why wellbeing initiatives cannot compensate for an unhealthy organisational system.
Russell closes with a compelling idea: optimism does not mean denying reality. It means acknowledging the scale of the challenge while also recognising our strengths, capabilities, relationships and capacity to respond. Pasted text
A rich conversation for anyone interested in resilient leadership, emotional intelligence, psychological safety and sustainable high performance.
Find Piers:
https://piers-cross.com
Find Russell:
The Resilience Coach
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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.
He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.
He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1
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Many blessings,
Piers Cross
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