Description
Eve Ekman, PhD, emotion researcher, Director of Training at UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and teacher/co creator of Cultivating Emotional Balance, and Wisdom Labs’ Michael Taft discuss the role of resilience in our lives and the workplace. Eve shares how emotional availability positively affects our interpretation of daily stressors, the ingredients of overcoming challenges, and tools for building resilience at work and beyond.
Conversation includes
The relationship between resilience and emotion, how acknowledged emotion reveals the meaning of a challenging stressor and leads us to operate at an optimal level, remaining available to emotion, managing the different kinds of stress, tools for dealing with workplace conflicts, how positive psychology leads to growth and resilience, the importance of social support in the workplace, and the benefits of gratitude.
Links:
Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude from Greater Good Science Center
Three Good Things Exercise from Greater Good Berkeley in Action
Show Notes
1:30 – The Relationship Between Resilience and Emotion
2:43 – The Benefits of Eustress
4:20 – Meaning as a Tool to Manage Stress
5:20 – How Emotions Yield Resilience
7:05 – The Difference Between Grit and Resilience
9:11 – The Essence of Resilience
10:21 – Building Resilience in the Workplace
13:37 – Three Good Things
16:08 – Overcoming Conflict Increases Resilience
19:45 – The Power of Awe
21:15 – Creating a Culture of True Resilience
