Resilience Alliance

02/19/2024

"Embracing Another Normal" coauthor Kris Burbank and I had a great time doing this interview with Eric Jorgenson on his ABCs of Disability Planning podcast.

Embracing Another Normal integrates the deep expertise of Kris Burbank, thought leader and coach on parenting children with disabilities, and the wisdom and insights of Dr. Linda Hoopes, award-winning author and researcher on personal resilience. It articulates six fundamental challenges of raising....

08/10/2023

This week’s installment in my project to transcribe and publish my great-grandmother’s journals.

Life goes on...ice cream, sorghum, more minister drama, and some family pictures

11/08/2021

Want more information on individual and organizational challenge-readiness? Here's a new newsletter I've started!

A newsletter to help individuals and organizations build challenge-readiness.

06/03/2021

My first book (17 years old!) is now available as an ebook. It's free on Kindle through Friday, June 5. The 2nd edition (both print and ebook) includes a few updates, but the things that were true about change and resilience then are still true today. If you are going through organizational change, or are leading/supporting people who are, this book is for you!

Managing Change with Personal Resilience: 21 Keys for Bouncing Back & Staying on Top in Turbulent Organizations

05/05/2021

My latest article on LinkedIn...

As a long-time student of resilience, I began my exploration in a time when researchers were exploring what made some people better able to deal with adversity than others. This early work tended to frame resilience as a unitary quality or trait that people possess.

02/05/2021

I know a lot of people who are feeling depleted these days. Our global Personal Resilience Practitioner community got together and brainstormed favorite strategies for replenishing energy.

We use physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual energy to deal with the range of challenges we encounter—both those that come to us and those we choose to take on. Each of us only has one energy supply, and it has to stretch to cover our challenges at home, at work, and in our local, national, a...

11/23/2020

My first ever Facebook Live...this morning at 10 Eastern time, with the folks from 1000 SUNS Online

09/30/2020

Today at noon! Come join us. https://www.thinkherrmann.com/building-resilience-webinar

09/15/2020

How can we leverage our differences to create positive results? We'll explore some tools and approaches this Thursday at 4. Co-sponsored by Teaching Fellows Institute and Resilience Alliance (that means it's free for you!)

Use differing perspectives as a source of insight and innovation instead of frustration and opposition.