Clare and Steve welcome Josh Connolly to explore resilience. Josh speaks from personal experience and works with organisations to explore what resilience is and what it’s not. Josh describes resilience, not as toughness, because plastic is tough, but eventually reaches a breaking point. Instead, we need to be elastic, able to return to our form and intended purpose. Together the three podcasters explore how we have become hardwired to work cognitively; to move away from our emotions. They discuss how, more than ever, what we need are great listeners who can offer the space for people struggling with their mental health and overpowering emotions to feel safe and not alone, so that their emotional needs can be met. They reflect on the role of coaches and supervision, especially at this universally challenging time of the pandemic. They explore the balance between coaching as an action-oriented means of achieving a goal versus the coach as a deep listener, sitting with their client, empowering them to acknowledge their feelings and emotions - as Josh puts it - we need to move from helping people to feel better, to a stance of helping people to be better at feeling.

Josh Connolly -https://www.joshconnolly.co.uk/