by Linda Hoopes | Aug 19, 2010 | Personal Resilience, Prosilience
One of my inspirations for thinking about resilience is the natural world. Think about the resilience of a willow tree, or a river, or a colony of ants. What strikes me about all of these things is that for them the process of “bouncing back” does not just...
by Linda Hoopes | Aug 10, 2010 | Research
I just ran across an interesting article in the journal Psychological Science, by Todd Kashdan and several co-authors. They focused on the fact that some people are able to describe the emotions they’re feeling in specific categories (sad, anxious, etc.) while...
by Linda Hoopes | Aug 6, 2010 | Organizational Resilience, Personal Resilience
If resilience is about how we respond when unexpected and disruptive things happen in our work or personal lives, how do we go about building it? I believe that there are really two levels of resilience-building that are important. The first is making sure we have the...
by Linda Hoopes | Aug 3, 2010 | Personal Resilience, Resources
I had a recent conversation with some wonderful people from GLG about resilience, and they mentioned a couple of authors who had resilience books I hadn’t yet run across. So of course I went to Amazon and found some good used copies to add to my library. One of...
