UPDATE: See my Art of Self-Coaching archive for all current course materials, including slides, class readings, and additional resources.
Here’s a condensed set of slides from the fifth session on Resilience in The Art of Self-Coaching, a new course I’m teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business this Spring, and the readings for this session are shown below. If you’d like to learn more about the topics being covered, here’s my syllabus.
CLASS 5: RESILIENCE
- The Resilience Factor (Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté)
- Chapter 2, pages 31-47, “How Resilient Are You?”
- Chapter 3, pages 48-62, “Laying the Groundwork”
- Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience and Well-Being (Linda Graham)
- Chapter 2, pages 29-45, “How the Wiring In of Resilience Can Go Awry”
- Resilience Quotient Assessment (in Reivich and Shatté)
Here are some other readings that I referenced in class or that have informed my approach to today’s topic:
- The Power of Resilience (Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein)
- Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative (Scott Eblin)
- True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (Bill George and Peter Sims)
- Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love (Robert Karen)
- Attachment Styles and Close Relationships (assessment designed by R. Chris Fraley)
- Fake it ’til you become it: Amy Cuddy’s power poses, visualized (Helen Walters, TEDBlog)
- Amy Cuddy Takes a Stand (David Hochman)
And here are some related posts of my own: