To enable resilience in people and organizations, we often start by asking a question modified from Clean Language, a process that asks non-leading questions with an emphasis on metaphors: When you're resilient at your best, that's like what? We then ask developing questions, such as: Is there anything else about...and, what kind of... . Most teams identify through metaphor a number of common resilient strategies. One of those strategies involves a strong sense of agency in a range of contextual challenges. In other words, the environment and challenges do not cause them to be stressed.

When extending these questions to resilience teams and organizations, we find a mix of adaptability, connectivity, and supportive systems. Some parts of systems are ordered, predictable, and well-planned; others are messy, uncertain, and volatile, where non-linearity and a lack of causality are recognized.

In such systems, resilient, adaptable people create relationships and connections that confer resilience in a dispositional way rather than a causal one.

This talk explores causation and resilience at different scales, with practical recommendations for how to improve personal, team, and organizational resilience.

This event is the rescheduled meetup from October.

Ian's Bio
Dr. Ian Snape is a former research leader and executive at the Australian Antarctic Division. He led teams on 14 polar expeditions to both polar regions before focussing on coaching and training CEOs, Olympic athletes, and frontline professionals.
A fan of the Harry Potter books, he’s the real-life Professor Snape, previously holding Professorial Fellowships at the University of Melbourne and Macquarie University. He is the author of Resilience by Design, published by Wiley, and more than 100 academic papers across a wide range of scientific disciplines.
In a parallel life, just like Snape from Hogwarts, he’s a master in defense against the dark arts, holding black belts in both Taekwondo and Hapkido. He is also a flow junkie, a passionate ski mountaineer, a climber, and a competitive sailor.
He currently enjoys creating scalable digital programs, writing books, and leading innovation, as well as leading the business (until we appoint a CEO).