The path to prosilience - building blocks for your way

Your prosilience, as with Rome (or those biceps), won’t be built in a day and change is here to stay. Prosilience is not just a state of being, but also lies in consciously choosing to do something every day to master adversity before it masters you.?

Here’s a valuable resource to help you anticipate disruption and adapt like a ‘pro’ before it even occurs.

In her new book “Prosilience”, Dr. Linda Hoopes draws on insights from diverse fields such as neuroscience, physiology, psychology, and spirituality to help you assess your readiness for a challenge and design a plan to deliberately develop prosilience as a skill.

Her book lists the?four building blocks of resilience?and the?seven?“resilience muscles”. These are items to add to your to do list and mental exercise routine to strategically flex those muscles regularly for optimal personal development and wellbeing.

So, how do you build that ‘bounce’??

1.?????Building blocks

Calming yourself: this acts on your brain’s central nervous system to improve your ability to respond effectively.

Choosing strategies: the situation will determine the best strategy to either reframe the challenge you face, change the situation, or just accept what it is.

Solving problems: through positivity, confidence, connection, creativity, prioritising, experimenting and structure, you can develop these muscles for the best solution.

Managing energy: by protecting, building and replenishing our physical, mental and emotional energy, we can overcome challenges or adjust to situations.

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2. Muscles

In fact, here are a few exercises you can try out to build those change muscles, even before you face huge adversity. Check it out: https://prosilience.com/exercises/

For more bite-sized bounce-building nuggets by Dr. Hoopes, have a read here:?https://prosilience.substack.com/p/prosilience-4-unfinished-businesshttps://prosilience.com/resilience-is-a-verb/

Changes and challenges are part of our history, our present situations and will guaranteed be a part of our future. If it wasn’t for change, skills like resilience and now, prosilience would never have been needed, identified and developed.

The test therefore, does not lie in avoiding hardships and transitions - but rather in intentionally building the ‘bounce’ necessary to overcome, adapt and embrace them before- and as they arise.

To smell the rain and the promise of renewal and growth it can also hold for each one of us.

And to encourage others to ‘probrilliantly’ follow suit.

*Source credits:

• Jooste, M 2020, The Role of Emotion, Psychophysiological Markers of Burnout and Their Relevance within the Leadership Pipeline, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Available at: yymmdd <https://hdl.handle.net/2263/78176>
• Jooste, M & Coetzee, N. 2022. The role of emotional intelligence in the experience of burinout among South African leaders working in financial roles.?International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, 13 (1): 83-101.?