Is it suitable for me?
Resilience Re-boot has been designed for people who are:

• Looking for sustainable ways to manage the challenges of their job
• Needing an extra boost to their resilience
• Busy but willing to invest 3-4 hours in their well-being and performance
• Wanting flexible learning – working at their own pace when and where they choose
• Open to working with a coach who will challenge their thinking and behavior.

What is involved?
Resilience Re-boot includes:

• Assessment of your personal resilience levels using the Resilience at Work (R@W) Scale
• A confidential telephone or face-to-face coaching session with an expert resilience coach
• Development of a customised plan for resilience that recognises your unique work context
• Six informative self-paced videos outlining proven resilience-building strategies
• Reflection sheets that ensure the video strategies are translated into actions
• Optional follow-up coaching to review and consolidate progress.

How do I complete the program?

1. Contact us to book in your coaching session at a time that suits you
2. We’ll send you a link and login details so you can complete your personal on-line resilience assessment
3. Once you’ve completed your assessment, you’ll meet with your coach to receive your assessment report, review your results and work out your personal resilience plan
4. After the coaching session, watch the 6 on-line modules and complete the associated worksheets at your own pace
5. Contact us when you’ve completed the program if you need anything further.

How do I get started?
Phone Jo on 0412 319 394, or contact us via email, for a confidential, no-obligation discussion about pricing options and suitability of the program to your needs.

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No-one would dispute the importance of integrity, but sometimes we only speak about integrity in the context of a serious public breach. This one day conference at Adelaide’s newest venue – the Adelaide Oval Function Centre – is a great opportunity to walk the integrity talk.

The conference looks at the ethical dilemmas being faced daily by sportspeople, politicians, business leaders, media magnates, charity workers, professionals and, at some time, all of us. The conference will focus on how the psychological make-up of groups and individuals can influence these decisions.

See the flyer for conference program and speakers. 

PB Performance Coaching Director Jo Saies will share her thoughts on integrity from her perspective as past Education Manager with the Australian Sports Drug Agency, Area Manager SA/NT with the Australian Public Service Commission, and as a past national representative athlete.

Register now!

Suitable for Executives, Managers, HR partners, Business Leaders, Sport Managers, Media Staff….

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• Taking personal responsibility for your career development
• Defining goals and pathways, creating professional development opportunities, accessing resources
• Aligning career with personal values and core strengths
• Resilience and well-being at work
• Enhancing job satisfaction through job crafting, engagement, finding meaning and purpose
• Linking personal, professional and career development
• Mindset, taking risks, being proactive, managing confidence

The presentation was based on the science of positive psychology, interwoven with personal scenarios and examples which demonstrated a pro-active and self-initiated approach to career development and satisfaction. Over 300 people attended live and via tele-conference, with Jo taking questions via text from around the country. Positive feedback was submitted instantaneously via phone, email and text by APS1 to Executive Level staff. Vanessa North, Expo Co-ordinator and Director Strategic and Shared Services, Learning and Development, noted ‘Jo’s presentation was polished, insightful, informative, inspirational and appealed across the board to the wide range of employees attending. Many thanks Jo for a wonderful experience’.

The presentation was made available to all staff throughout the ATO as part of an electronic expo show bag. You can view Jo’s presentation below.

Want to know more or talk through your situation? Contact Jo via our email form or telephone 0412 319 394.

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Professor Martin Seligman returns to Adelaide in Feb 2013, for the second part of his Thinker In Residency, and details of public forums have just been announced. Last year all four of Professor Seligman’s public events sold out extremely quickly, so jump in an register early for these:

Creating Productive and Healthy Organisations 
A presentation and panel event with Dr Martin Seligman 
5th Feb 2013, Bonython Hall

As part of Dr Seligman’s final visit as Adelaide Thinker in Residence he will present and contribute to a panel in response to the question “Can the science of positive psychology contribute to productive and positive workplaces?” The panel discussion will be especially tailored towards the public sector and human resource personnel from large organisations. Other panel members and further details will be announced closer to the event. Chaired by Erma Ranieri, Chief Executive of the SA Public Sector Renewal Program. Information and Registration

Towards mental well-being and a successful, prosperous and happy nation
13 February 2013, St Peter’s College 
Deservedly, mental well-being is increasingly recognised as fundamental to the overall performance of both children and adults. Hear Professor Martin Seligman, Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Professor Patrick McGorry AO, Mental Health Advocate and former Australian of the Year, and Associate Professor Jane Burns, Chief Executive Officer of the Young & Well CRC, discuss this important topic.
Free event, bookings here
Martin Seligman Final Lecture – Building a flourishing state
19 February 2013, Hindmarsh
Prof Seligman’s final lecture will showcase his recommendations for South Australia, as it aims to become the world’s first ‘flourishing state’.
Free event, bookings here

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The quality of our relationships at work has a significant impact on our overall performance and wellbeing. Building and maintaining supportive workplace relationships is not only essential to enhancing cooperation and teamwork, but is also important for increasing both individual and organisational resilience.

The 2012 RUOK? Australian Workplace Relationships survey, in partnership with the Centre for Corporate Health, is designed to take a snapshot in time as to the current state of Australian workplace relationships across a wide range of industries and sectors.

Take the survey here.

R U OK?Day is a national day of action on the second Thursday of September (13 September 2012), dedicated to inspiring all people of all backgrounds to ask each other ‘Are you ok?’

By raising awareness about the importance of connection and providing resources throughout the year, the R U OK? Foundation aims to prevent isolation by empowering people to support each other through life’s ups and downs.

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It takes a lot to surprise me, and it takes something pretty significant to impress me. And I don’t mind admitting that I was gobsmacked! Martin Seligman – here in Adelaide – really??.This would surely be the most important and significant person ever to land in the city of churches. So I did some digging, found it was indeed a strong possibility, and waited for the wheels of politics to turn. Then last Wednesday the public announcement was made, albeit a some-what subdued announcement considering Dr Seligman’s reputation and contribution.

The aim of Dr Seligman’s residency in South Australia is to explore how we can build flourishing communities. This includes how we measure wellbeing (a key target in SA’s Strategic Plan) and what we need to do to develop our skills so we can flourish.

Taking young people as the focal point, this residency will look at the key touch points – school, family, social services and peers – and how positive psychology, in the form of tools for well – in young people’s lives being and resilience, can be built into those interactions. The focus on young people also allows the residency to provide those tools to the broader community by working with teachers and families as well as young people.

Dr Seligman sees schools as an influential and necessary space for building these skills for youth, family and peers. He believes that, where possible, well-being should be taught on three grounds: as an antidote to depression, a vehicle for increasing life satisfaction and as an aid to better learning and more creative thinking.

‘The future calls us to measure and then make policy around well-being rather than just around money. This measurement will be part of our gift to our prosperity.’ Dr Martin Seligman, Flourish (2011)

I may be stretching my optimism to suggest that Dr Seligman will agree to address the Happiness and Positive Psychology Professional Development interest group that I convene. I am however, hopeful that his presence in Adelaide will be a significant catalyst for the development of positive psychology as a profession and academic discipline, as well as for community well-being more broadly in South Australia.

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