Your Resilience Fingerprint

Reify 8&21

Welcome to your 3-minute pause. Let's focus on your practice of pursuing awesome.

"Belief in myself is how resilience shows up."

― J.S., Reify Conversation participant

We refined our definition of resilience over time. It is based on our discussions with women leaders and crafted to support our research.

Sharing that context to emphasize that OUR resilience definition, or others' definitions of resilience, may not be useful to you. Maybe you need your own.

The Resilience Tree

Some people collect bobble heads, some people collect shells—we collect definitions of resilience.

From our growing collection of definitions, we have created this infographic: The Resilience Tree.

(We shared it at the Women Transforming Technology (WT2) conference earlier this month.)

The "leaf" keywords on the tree were gleaned from our collection of resilience definitions. The goal of this infographic is to show how many different words and concepts are used to define "resilience".

Maybe pick out some of the words that mean a lot to you. You don’t have to use every word in this infographic, just like you wouldn’t buy every item at a Farmer’s Market! The goal is to browse. Find what YOU need.

You could collect words to craft your own definition of,

or mantra for, resilience.

Rachel also presented at WT2, sharing a FRAME acronym for resilience:

"Just like an object can become beautiful and stronger thanks to those breaks, we as humans also become more beautiful and stronger.

Our stories are very unique and they are there to be celebrated through the tough times, the difficult times. All of the mistakes and the failures, they are the golden luck that repairs our broken bones and makes us stronger, very special and lets us fly.

So see yourself this way, and others will as well.”

- Olga Specjalska, Director, Partner Business VM Ware,
presnter at the WT2 2021 conference

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Great job!

Way to take a pause and give 3 minutes to your practice of pursuing awesome with this issue's theme. You rock!

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Created and Produced by

The Two Sarahs

Photo Credits:

painted hand photo by Dev Asangbam

color pop photo by Calvin Lupiya

desert paint photo by Patrick Buck

paintbrush photo by Debby Hudson

paint and paintbrush photo by Tim Arterbury

kintsugi photo by Motoki Tonn

woman in hat photo by Jade Orth