Rethinking and developing resilience: the role of environment and psychological safety

With resilience being a “buzzword” in the sport sector, the meaning of the term has started to be lost in translation, which can lead to misunderstanding.

To ensure a common and accurate language about resilience amongst organisations, in this session, Dr Sarkar will initially explore common myths and misconceptions about resilience with a view to ensuring clarity about what resilience is and is not. Based on one of these misconceptions, Dr Sarkar will subsequently explore how the environment can either facilitate or undermine resilience and how leaders in organisations can influence this. Specifically, attendees will be introduced to a 2x2 challenge-support matrix to highlight the importance of balancing both high challenge and high support to develop resilience for sustained success and wellbeing.

Lastly, with psychological safety being one of the key features of a high challenge and high support (facilitative) environment, in the final part of the session, Dr Sarkar will critically review the concept of psychological safety and will discuss some practical ideas for creating psychological safety in practice.

Speaker

Dr Mustafa Sarkar - Associate Professor of Sport and Performance Psychology, Nottingham Trent University

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