Resilience, High Performance & Wellbeing for SME Leaders

24th January 2025


Thank you for attending the recent Resilience webinar hosted by the Small Business Charter for the Help to Grow Alumni Network. Colleen and I hope you enjoyed it and found it of practical help. Please feel free to reach out for any further support as it is a complex subject that is difficult to cover in depth in an hour. The following resources will help to reinforce some of the key takeaways. The slide deck includes extra slides we created to help answer any questions...so there may be some we didn't use.

RESOURCES

Click the thumbnails below to view our helpful guides:

 
 

Please note we very much advocate if it's not broken then don't fix it. So, if you: 

  • are sleeping well (7.5 hours or more), 

  • have a good social network which you enjoy regularly,

  • exercise (at least 20 minutes daily - which includes a moderate walk), 

  • eat nutritiously 80% of the time, and 

  • are able to regulate your emotions in a healthy way (not prone to anxiety, negative thoughts, loss of temper, low temperament etc.)...

  • do not feel regularly overwhelmed (overwhelm is a sign of a loss of capacity in the nervous system)

then maybe you are doing well! All of the above help protect and enhance your inherent resilience mechanisms managed by your autonomic nervous system. The less of these you do well the more you will need techniques such as those we discussed to help support the stress you experience. The techniques should not really be a replacement for good basic habits, rituals and friendships...they really are a way of developing additional resilience, self-awareness and new capacities for navigating a demanding world.

best wishes

Mark

Please do not hesitate to email mark@7futures.com, mizukicolleen@yahoo.com or jo@7futures.com if you have any further questions. All enquiries will be treated confidentially.

Mark Davies is the founder of 7Futures and has been consulting in workplace resilience, wellbeing and performance since 2000. He is a resilience coach, an FA coach (working for several years at Leicester City FC) and also a mindfulness teacher. He is the only UK consultant to have completed the USA based MMFT training programme and is supporting the Mindfulness Initiative for the UK Armed Forces. Formerly a CEO of J Rothschild International Assurance with responsibility for their European, Americas and Far Eastern operations, Mark has over 20 years of international financial services experience and a deep understanding of the pressures leaders need to manage. He remains a founding partner in one of the West Midlands most respected nursing care groups which has been providing essential care since 1988.

 

Colleen Mizuki has 20 years of experience in executive and life coaching; organization development; and designing/delivering performance-enhancement, learning and development, and resilience programs. Her expertise and passion centres around programs based in the science and practice of mindfulness techniques; brain-mind-body optimization; and self-regulation for greater well-being and improved performance. She brings a unique background in psychotherapy and body-based therapy, coaching, training mindfulness/yoga practice as well as hard science. She has experience working with a very diverse client base, including corporate, military, academic, diplomatic, social services, cyber (hackers), information technology R&D, and non-profit organizations, and with clients from over 25 countries.

Colleen has a B.A. in French/Chinese/Economics, an A.A. in Laser Electro-optics Technology, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. Her certifications include the Hudson Institute of Coaching; Cultural Intelligence Center (CQ® and Unconscious Bias); Myers-Briggs (MBTI®); MHS (EQi/EQ360); HeartMath® Institute; Institute for Social and Emotional Intelligence (ISEI®); Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT®); Somatic Experiencing® International (body-based trauma resolution); and, Idea Connection System, Inc. (ISPI®). She speaks fluent French and gets by in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.

 

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