Resilience is essential for people who want to create change. Research conducted a few years ago by Relume, the consultancy which Rowan works helps to run, involved interviewing business leaders, but specifically those who challenge the status quo. Through these conversations, and their own experience of working within high-profile organisations, they noticed a number of common behaviours in terms of what it takes to create a positive disturbance in a department, organisation or market sector.
One of the stand-out findings was that the ability to bounce back quickly from challenging situations was one of these behaviours. Some people even thrived in these testing circumstances.
What was also interesting is that people commonly mistake resilience for endurance. To endure is to continuously push the body and mind to the limit for prolonged periods of time without giving up. It’s the same with companies. Many wellbeing programs ask employees to be well enough to cope in organisations that are increasingly complex, uncertain and fast-paced.
But to be resilient is different. A degree of endurance is still required but it also means recovering quickly and using the experience to learn, adapt and do something different. It doesn’t mean putting up with more of the same.
Using a mixture of insight, real stories and practices, this workshop will help shift you from an endurance mindset to a resilience mindset. To read more on resilience here.
This can also be delivered as a live webinar by Zoom or similar platform.
Following this bite-sized programme in being mindful by Rohan Narse will take you on the path of least resistance to produce results. You’ll find this an experiential quest into mindfulness where you can try a few things out for yourself and return to again and again whenever you feel the need. Just watching and listening to Rohan infuses a sense of calmness and serenity; so whether you’re at your desk or on the commute home, you’ll leave with a newfound sense of stillness in an altogether better state of mind.
This is particularly the case with the meditations which are split into short (3 mins), a bit longer (12 mins), and in-depth (20 mins) so you can choose a length to suit you.
So what exactly is it?
This is an experiential programme, focused on enabling many a moment of freedom from the discursive nature of the mind and engaging in conscious action from that state. It is artfully structured using a number of eastern and western methods of meditation.
What can you expect?
Working through these meditations you can expect to experience a beneficial slowing down, a freshness to your life, clarity in your thinking and a state of ease with yourself and others. You can also expect to know the science behind the methods used after the experience.
Who is it for?
It is for everyone. You may be a leader within your organisation looking for ways to to reduce your stress levels, or perhaps be more resilient, cohesive and produce results in innovative ways. You may be a senior city professional, or perhaps an entrepreneur, someone who leads a busy life and is looking to take conscious time out for a moment of calm and deep clarity. Whoever you are, whatever your role or status, you’ll find powerful yet subtle ways to make profound changes to yourself and to your relationships at home and with colleagues.
In today’s rapidly changing world, learning to lead and design our communities and organisations to ride the turbulence creatively is critical to our ability to make a positive impact. This workshop covers the subject of evolutionary change, and the implications for us as individual leaders, as well as for our organisational cultures and structures. It combines intellectual rigour with personal challenge, collaboration with creative expression. You’ll engage with integrative maps of organisational and leadership development, as well as instantly applicable practices for becoming more effective and dynamic as individuals and collectives.
If you would like to take this course as a more immersive experience with a group of co-learners and a course facilitator, and would like the option of getting academic or professional credits, please get in touch and we will connect you accordingly.
Presenter Rowan Gray
Rowan works for is a consultant for research and advisory firm Relume that has been working since 2000 at the most senior levels of complex global organisations. Their primary research investigates the patterns of behaviour underpinning leaders and organisations who successfully challenge the status quo in themselves, their businesses and their market sector. Rowan works with a broad range of people that champion new ways of doing business, from senior leaders in large corporates to social enterprises. He has a particular interest in companies with a clear purpose beyond profit that delivers growth to the business and challenges the status quo in the marketplace. He brings curiosity, energy and fun to his work and loves to explore ideas from outside business as a source of innovation for clients.
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On-demand access to 5 videosPresenter Rohan Narse
Formally an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and later CEO & Founder of an investment advisory company, Rohan experienced a physical, emotional and mental burnout. His journey to getting his life back took him across many eastern and western paths of self-inquiry and has been captured in the book 'In Search of Silence'. What he shares with us on LearnShedLive is based on his experience, and what makes this unique, is that it’s fully integrative and free of any conceptual clutter. Rohan now hosts programmes on mindfulness in the UK. He works with leadership teams and individuals within city firms and global organisations, to explore how being mindful impacts not just their professional expression but also their personal lives, enabling them to reduce stress and achieve a sense of balance and wellbeing. Clients include KPMG, Old Mutual Wealth, Academy for Chief Executives and Unilever PLC. Rohan offers a programme ‘The Inner Rhythm’ and also a conversation series ‘LSD (Love.Sex.Death)’ as experiential journeys to growing in awareness
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On-demand access to 9 videos including 3 meditationsPresenter Peter Merry
Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University, founder of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands, and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership). He is currently researching the application of noetic science and energetics to whole systems transitions. In this context, he is working on a Ph.D. with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School.
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On-demand access to 50 videosPresenter Rowan Gray
Rowan works for is a consultant for research and advisory firm Relume that has been working since 2000 at the most senior levels of complex global organisations. Their primary research investigates the patterns of behaviour underpinning leaders and organisations who successfully challenge the status quo in themselves, their businesses and their market sector. Rowan works with a broad range of people that champion new ways of doing business, from senior leaders in large corporates to social enterprises. He has a particular interest in companies with a clear purpose beyond profit that delivers growth to the business and challenges the status quo in the marketplace. He brings curiosity, energy and fun to his work and loves to explore ideas from outside business as a source of innovation for clients.
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On-demand access to 5 videosPresenter Rohan Narse
Formally an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and later CEO & Founder of an investment advisory company, Rohan experienced a physical, emotional and mental burnout. His journey to getting his life back took him across many eastern and western paths of self-inquiry and has been captured in the book 'In Search of Silence'. What he shares with us on LearnShedLive is based on his experience, and what makes this unique, is that it’s fully integrative and free of any conceptual clutter. Rohan now hosts programmes on mindfulness in the UK. He works with leadership teams and individuals within city firms and global organisations, to explore how being mindful impacts not just their professional expression but also their personal lives, enabling them to reduce stress and achieve a sense of balance and wellbeing. Clients include KPMG, Old Mutual Wealth, Academy for Chief Executives and Unilever PLC. Rohan offers a programme ‘The Inner Rhythm’ and also a conversation series ‘LSD (Love.Sex.Death)’ as experiential journeys to growing in awareness
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On-demand access to 9 videos including 3 meditationsPresenter Peter Merry
Peter Merry is Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University, founder of the Center for Human Emergence Netherlands, and a founding partner of Engage!. He has worked in and across different sectors. As well as co-founding and leading the organisations above, his experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries, and in multi-stakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector. He is a recognised expert in the field of evolutionary systems dynamics and Spiral Dynamics Integral in particular. He has had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership). He is currently researching the application of noetic science and energetics to whole systems transitions. In this context, he is working on a Ph.D. with Ubiquity’s Wisdom School.
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On-demand access to 50 videos