The Coaching Kool-Aid
Ready to be challenged? Feeling playful? If you’re a coach who’s serious about engaging in reflective practice, or you’re simply interested in taking a look behind the curtains of the coaching profession, come with us as we bite into the juicy fruit of this intriguing, complex, and totally unregulated industry. In each episode we’ll look at a different concept used within coaching, and playfully unpack both its problems and its utility.
The Coaching Kool-Aid
Who’s Responsible for Resilience?
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Renee Lockwood, Melanie Weeks, and Dr Michael Cavanagh
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Season 1
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Episode 3
What does it mean to be resilient? Is it working an 80 hour week, turning up when you’re sick or behaving as though a setback has not completely rocked your world? Or is it going to bed instead of answering emails or spending time with your family? Our modern world of work would have us believe that the only way to succeed is by being better, stronger, harder, and faster versions of ourselves; performing at our peak at all times. But is this possible? And is resilience something innate or is it something we can learn? In this episode, we interview Dr Michael Cavanagh, Deputy Director of the Coaching Psychology unit at Sydney University, in order to seek some answers to the question: who is responsible for resilience?