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Guest Speakers

• Renda Garner, Creative Leadership Resources
• Dr. Bret Wells, Creative Leadership Resources

Notes and Thoughts

• Moving past the initial shock, what is the next phase. 
• To move through the day, our brains have to compartmentalize.
• Brains look for patterns. When the patterns are disrupted, we are completed off-balance
• We would rather have terrible news than deal with uncertainty.
• Moving into the “new norm” but don’t know what it is.
• To relieve uncertainty: 1. Cynicism or 2. Naive optimism
• Difference between naive optimism and optimism as a belief in our own agency. 
• Optimism is defined as a belief that we can make a difference.
• High degree of optimism helps to make people more resilient. 
• If we don’t believe there are solutions, we will not see them. 
• Martin Seligman (Father of Positive Psychology)
  • Personalization
  • Permanence
  • Pervasiveness
• Fear vs. Hope: You will get more of what you focus on. It is important to process all of the feelings. 
• Emotions are needed to be able to make decisions. It doesn’t make it irrational to have a threat response to something that you perceive as a threat. 

Resources

• 3 P’s from Growing Resilient