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Mine your mental muscle
March 12, 2014 Gillian Leithman, BA, MSC, Ph.D. Candidate
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Mine your mental muscles
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Today’s agenda
! Eustress Vs. Distress
! A matter of mindset: Lessons from the trenches
! Why mindset matters
! Strategies for building Resilience
Local, changeable, temporary
Alter your narrative
A focus on the future
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Group exercise
What comes to mind when you think of the term stress?
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Stress & Work
! 1 in 4 workers report being “highly stressed”
(Statistics Canada, 2011)
! Increased Absenteeism
! Increased medical expenses
! Loss of productivity
! Burnout
! Mental health issues cost the Canadian economy 50 billion dollars a year
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Stressed about feeling stress?
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An Imbalanced View?
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Do you ever view stress as beneficial?
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Increased productivity at work
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Enhanced physiology & immunity
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Increased mental toughness
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Greater appreciation for life
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How do we reconcile this paradox?
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Mindset: Debilitating or enhancing?
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Mindset has a downstream effect on judgment ! Intelligence: Fixed vs. Growth (Dweck)
! Aging: Proactive vs. inactive (Counterclockwise study; Levy & colleagues)
! Work: Exercise vs. a job (Hotel study: Crum)
! Stress: Enhancing or debilitating ??? (Salovey,Crum, & Achor, 2013)
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Psychological Resilience An individual's ability to cope with stress & adversity and bounce back even better
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Remember Shawn Achor
“It is not our reality that shapes us, but the lens through which we view that reality. If we change the lens, we can change our outcomes”.
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Stress
Event
Interpretation
Chemical response
Emotional + Behavioral reaction
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Building mental toughness
! Local
! Temporary
! Changeable
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Create a new narrative Post traumatic Growth
! Human beings are sense making creatures
! What is the meaning behind the stress/traumatic event that you are living
! Create a new narrative that tells a different story about the event
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Victor Frankl
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for”
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! Graduates of Concordia’s Department of Communication Studies, Frederic Bohbot, BA 01, Kieran Crilly Carl Freed, BA 94 Luc St. Pierre, BFA 09,
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“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails... that’s true in the Olympics and its true in the boardroom”.
Dean Becker, CEO adaptive solutions
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Session summary ! Eustress Vs. Distress
! A matter of mindset: Lessons from the trenches
! Why mindset matters
! Building Resilience
Local, changeable, temporary
Alter your narrative
Focus on the future
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References ! Mindet by Carol Dweck
! Crum, A., Salovey, P. & Achor, S. (2013). Rethinking Stress: The Role of Mindsets in Determining the Stress Response. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. [impact factor: 4.9]
! Rethinking Stress - http://goodthinkinc.com/rethinkstress
! http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/03/post-traumatic-growth-and-buil/
! Building resilienceby Martin Seligman- Harvard Business Review, April 2011
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