Embracing Change with Resilience

Aurelie Litynski

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSession rating: 4.2/5 from 194 participants
Embracing Change with Resilience

This one runs as an interactive workshop: the hour includes exercises your colleagues do themselves, not only a talk.

Session Summary

Change is the only constant in life, and this session is your guide to not just surviving but thriving amidst change. Explore the power of resilience and learn how to navigate change with confidence, adaptability, and a renewed sense of purpose.

Participants will gain a deep understanding of the nature of change, its psychological impact, and the common responses to it.

This session empowers individuals and teams to embrace change with resilience, equipping them with the skills and mindset needed to thrive in an ever-evolving world.

Interaction

During the expert session, Aurelie engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations of her personal experiences, and using the Mentimeter app for interactive exercises that help participants reflect on their feelings towards change and how they can adapt to it with resilience.

She emphasizes the importance of understanding resistance, building trust, and practicing open communication, while encouraging participants to reflect on the session and apply these concepts in their personal and professional lives.

Key Learnings

Embrace Change with Empathy

Understand that everyone reacts differently to change and show empathy towards those who may be struggling. Adapt your communication style based on resistance types (head, heart, hands, trust).

Build Resilience

Practice open communication, meditation, exercising, and handle stress effectively to foster a positive mindset and increase resilience during times of change. Reflect on the highlights and ask colleagues about their perspective for valuable insights.

Understand the Why

To fully embrace change, it's important to understand why it's being made and how it will impact you and your team. Be open-minded about feelings and emotions, showing empathy, and having an open conversation.

Detailed session description

During this session, Aurelie Litynski explains how people and teams can embrace organizational change with greater resilience by understanding the emotional journey that accompanies it. She introduces the change curve and encourages participants to identify where they and their teams are in the process, from the initial reaction and uncertainty to exploration and eventual adoption.

She emphasizes that self-awareness, acknowledging emotions, and maintaining open communication help people navigate change more effectively and support teams through transition.

Litynski demonstrates how positive psychology strengthens people's ability to deal with change. She explains the brain's negativity bias and shares practical techniques to shift attention towards positive experiences, such as reflecting on weekly highlights.

She also outlines four common types of resistance to change - heart, head, hands, and trust - and shows how leaders can recognize each type and adapt their communication, support, and leadership style accordingly to build engagement and reduce resistance. To conclude, Litynski explores resilience as a key capability for navigating change successfully.

Through practical metaphors, she illustrates different ways people can recover, adapt, grow, and support others during challenging situations. She encourages participants to view change as an opportunity for learning and development, foster a positive work culture, and create an environment where trust, resilience, and open communication enable individuals and teams to embrace change with confidence.

According to participants

What people said afterwards.

From the survey every participant gets when the session ends, in their own words.

Aurelie did a great job giving us tools and food for thought especially during this time. Thank you for organizing. May need to do a 3 or 6 month check in regarding being open to change.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Much needed Initiative. Thanks for organizing
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Too early to comment. Thank you 😊
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
The session was well facilitated with great interactive tools. The content was engaging, well balanced, and not overloaded. Overall, a great experience.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
The examples were very clear and how I can bring a positive vibe
In answer to “What have you learned?”
Overall great session. Simple easy to follow and practical content
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
Clear and purposeful presentation.
In answer to “Any other feedback?”
It was a good reminder of the negativity bias and the different reactions to change you need to acknowledge and act upon. Also realizing to not show an immediate reaction but really think and feel about it first.
In answer to “What have you learned?”
Before you book

Questions about Embracing Change with Resilience

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

Change is the only constant in life, and this session is your guide to not just surviving but thriving amidst change. Explore the power of resilience and learn how to navigate change with confidence, adaptability, and a renewed sense of purpose. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

Is this a workshop or a talk?

A workshop. The description of this session says so itself: the hour includes exercises and activities that participants do, not only an expert speaking. It still runs live and online, for as many colleagues as you want to invite.

Is Aurelie the right expert for this?

Aurelie Litynski is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.2 out of 5, across 433 responses, and rate Aurelie personally 4.5 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Aurelie, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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