Redefining Resilience: From Individual Coping to Collective Capacity

The session

This session will challenge traditional models of resilience that focus on individual toughness or coping strategies. Instead, we will explore resilience as something systemic, shaped by workplace culture, psychological safety and collective responses to stress. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how resilience operates at both individual and organisational levels, particularly in environments defined by pressure, uncertainty and conflict.

Drawing on organisational psychology, psychosocial risk research and neuroscience, the session will introduce a practical lens for understanding stress as both contagious and relational. We will explore how subconscious leadership patterns influence emotional climate, how fight-or-flight responses can escalate under pressure, and why stress often becomes less about the task itself and more about how people feel within the system. The aim is to provide leaders with a deeper, evidence-based understanding of how resilience capacity is either strengthened or undermined in real time.

The workshop will be practical…