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Is Resilience Over-Rated?
Transculturalism, Ethical Health, & Workplace Spirituality
This session will be a forum for others who have worked in the area of workplace resilience.
With a focus on this topic, this session also considers a wider lens, asking three questions:
- How can we draw on strengths of difference groups (racial, ethnic, otherwise) who have experienced adversity due to how they are treated at work?
- Why even bother focusing on wellness and resilience when what we really need is just to treat each other better?
- If resilience is just a stepping stone, can the workplace be a setting for transpersonal needs, human growth, and spiritual development?
Please join us online on September 10 to help us dissect these 3 perspectives!
Discussants: Paul Courtois, Michele Studer, Laura Crowder, Stephany Sherry, (and you!)
Schedule for Thursday Evening:
– 6:45 Virtual setup and Networking
– 7:00 Announcements / Intros / Program <–Note earlier start!
– 8:45 Closing and evaluation
Zoom Link to Join Virtual Meeting will be sent to all who register.
Facilitator BIOs:
Joel Bennett, Ph.D., is president of Organizational Wellness and Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness, resilience, mental well-being, and catalyzing healthy work cultures from the inside out. He first delivered stress-management programming in 1985, and OWLS programs have since reached close to 250,000 workers across the United States and abroad.
OWLS clients include corporate, private, nonprofit, local and federal agencies. OWLS has received close to $5 million in federal research grants to assess, design and deliver workplace wellness programs. Dr. Bennett is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed research articles, and he has authored or co-authored five books.
Dr. Ben Dilla is a business professor at the University of Dallas and an executive coach, trainer, and consultant through his own company, Bold Leader Development. He has 30+ years of experience in OD, working as a behavioral scientist in the US Air Force, as a leadership development consultant for Personnel Decisions International (now Korn Ferry), and in OD & Training leadership roles for several DFW companies.
As a coach, Ben often works with accomplished professionals to develop and improve their leadership and influence skills, which has led him to promote a strengths-based approach to the skills of Emotional Intelligence. He earned his MS & PhD in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from Purdue University.