“You shouldn’t go straight for resilience

you should have resilience as a by-product”

In episode 5 of JelenaCONSULT Resilience podcast, our topic gets a bit upside down as we tackle two different sides to resilience.

BONUS: You can also find out about our motives for recording this series.

Our guest is Simon Western, Ph.D. who has an international reputation as an academic and practitioner in areas such as coaching and organisational consulting (https://www.analyticnetwork.com/). In this episode, he inspires us to problematize the concept of resilience in organisations.

Simon argues that corporate world perceives resilience as putting a plaster on an injured worker so they can get back to work as quickly as possible.

We discuss using the word “resilience” as an organisational defense against change and how resilience gets misused and manipulated by some in organisations. How free counseling sessions, mindfulness courses, yoga at work, etc. would not help if managers still demand workers to spend 10 hours a day working. Mindfulness gets a special critical eye in this talk.

Simon also talks – in Lacanian terms – about how resilience can be a symptom.

Resilience never stands alone, he argues. You will hear from our guest how well-being, enjoyment, pleasure, creativity, and innovation fit into the picture of resilience.

Eco leadership is an important step and Simon discusses his theory and practice of eco leadership that can build more resilient teams/organisations/society.

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