“Getting Started with Resilience” Video Series

Welcome! Please enjoy this “Getting Started with Resilience” video series! It will get you through the better part of a work week, while you build the basic skills for a mindfulness-based resilience practice.

This step by step curated series of resources I developed after helping over 5,000 people build resilience and peak performance skills for the workplace.

The series include a mix of in the moment and more sustained practices. Don’t forget to practice this skills regularly (yes, daily), to hardwire in the new habits into your neural pathways.

Step 1: Identify Your Stress Triggers

Learn about the Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn mode, our “automatic” neurobiological reactions to difficult situations

Step 2A: Learn How to Respond to Stress Triggers

Learn how to find space to choose you decisions, words and actions in difficult moments, so you don’t do something you might later regret.

Step 2B: Three Breaths Micro-practice

Access the instructions for the Three Breaths practice below and save it to your desktop or take a screenshot for handy any time reference.

Step 3: Learn and Practice a Guided Meditation

Learn the detailed instructions for a mindfulness meditation practice.

Bonus: Name it to Tame it

When difficult emotions such as fear or anxiety arise, this is an excellent tool to keep you from getting overwhelmed. Simply by naming the emotions coming up, you can find the space to be calm.