The second of four short episodes in our mini-series on resilience for coaches. This series will focus on resilience over three key areas: the head (mental resilience); the heart (emotional resilience); and the soul (spiritual resilience).

Mental resilience can be a real test when faced with situations that seem to focus or highlight the negative and mental strength can be hard to find.

In this episode Glyn Fussell and resilience coach Jane Bytheway explore what we mean by mental resilience, discussing questions such as how can you be present and maintain your focus as a coach? And how can you adapt and change in times of uncertainty?

Jane offers tools and techniques that may help you build and maintain your mental resilience which in turn will help you support your clients.

Additional resources

Ted Talk by Michael Bungay Stanier on ‘How to Tame your Advice Monster’ https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w

Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit (book)

Time to Think by Nancy Kline (book)

The Coaching manual by Julie Starr (book)

Coaching for performance by John Whitemore (book)

The Oasis Seven stage model (pdf) & audiobook

In this episode – the first in a series of podcasts about resilience, you’ll hear Glyn Fussell in conversation with Oasis Associate practitioner and coach Jane Bytheway as they discuss resilience.

In our busy lives, the “Keep calm and carry on” ethos is not always that helpful and we tend to ignore aspects of our wellbeing just to get through each day. So what is resilience? What are the tools we need to be resilient? What do we need for ourselves as individuals in order to thrive?

We also explore how we can bring resilience into the coaching space: allowing pause for thought; how building your own individual source of strength can really help during the challenges in life we all endure at some point.

Additional resources

Ted Talk by Michael Bungay Stanier on ‘How to Tame your Advice Monster’ https://youtu.be/Kl0rmx7aa0w

Michael Bungay Stanier - The Coaching Habit (book)

Time to Think by Nancy Kline (book)

The Coaching manual by Julie Starr (book)

Coaching for performance by John Whitemore (book)

The Oasis Seven stage model (pdf) & audiobook

Oasis Resilience, Adaptability and Wellbeing website

In this episode, the second in our series about creating meaning in later life, you’ll hear two wise older women - Marion Ragaliauskas & Pam Winter - in conversation, as they explore the experience of women transitioning into later life. What’s similar for women in this phase of life compared to men? And crucially, what’s different for women?

As older women, both Marion and Pam are practicing and living their own inner work of aging, which brings into play areas as loss, review, evaluation and re-imagining: exploring the letting go of who we once were and learning how to embrace and experiment with who we are becoming, or could become.

A great reflection for anyone going through or approaching this stage of life, or if you want to understand more about it, or if you are helping others to go through it.

Additional resources

From Age-ing to Sage-ing A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Old by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller

Hagitude by Sharon Blackie

The Inner Work of Age Shifting From Role to Soul by Connie Zwig

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis