This is the slide deck for a presentation delivered to the Institute of Coaching in 2022. This interactive session will introduce participants to the 10 principles of the Resilience to Thrive (R2T) Coaching model/training developed and researched by Dr. Joel Bennett and colleagues from Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems. At its core, R2T situates resilience as one step in a broader aspirational framework that treats human beings as having an innate power to transform stress and challenges into positive growth experiences, across the lifespan. Participants will learn about resilience stories, set-point, working with triggers, job crafting, creating the “couch” of coaching, and the use of cognitive-behavioral worksheets and coaching tools that support the resilience to thrive journey. We will also showcase a 1-year follow-up evaluation study of coaching students who went through the R2T training. Results suggest the model holds promise as an adjunct to both wellness coaching and mental health practice. To access the video recording please checkout IOC https://instituteofcoaching.org/resources/webinar-resilience-thrive-coaching-science-practice-approach

1. Resilience to Thrive Coaching
A Science-to-Practice Approach
Joel B. Bennett, PhD
Organizational Wellness & Learning System
learn@organizationalwellness.com

2. Background
(brief story)
(A) Masters Thesis (1982)
Dissertation (1988)
Research Scientist (1994-2017)
• Clinical trials; evidence-based
training for employee behavioral
risks--NIH, NIDA, NHLBI, NCCAM,
NIAAA, SAMHSA
• Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=
H7Yvp_kAAAAJ&hl=en
Module | Resilience/Team
Resilience (2008-now)
Trained over 500 facilitators
Facilitators approached me
– Please develop coaching
version (2019)
(B) Today https://yourbestselfatwork.org/

3. This Morning in Texas
When a flower doesn’t
bloom, you tend to the
environment that
nurtures it; you don’t fix
the flower
(adapted from Alexander
Den Heijer)

4. Download Research
https://organizationalwellness.com/pages/download-owls-research

5. Improved Climate Improved Help & Care
Help-Seeking
EAP Utilization
Encouraged Others
Was Encouraged
Responsiveness
Outcome K Time Tx/Cont.
Organizational
Wellness1 1 6 Mo 351/187
Coworker
Trust1-3 4 1 Mo 624/384
Hectic Work
Pace1 1 6 m 351/187
Counterproduct
ive Coworkers4 1 12 mo 235/230
Stigma1,5,6 3 1 & 6 Mo 654/412
Outcome K Time n Tx/ Control
Willingness to Seek
Help Attitudes7 1 1 Mo 567/338
Sought Help or Was
Encouraged2,3 2 6 Mo 87/83
Encouraged others
to use EAP2,3 2 6 Mo 87/83
Received
Counseling7 1 6 Mo 557/335
Coworker
Responsiveness6 2
1 & 6
Mo
191/202
Org. Wellness
Coworker Trust
Hectic Work Pace
Counterproductivity
Stigma
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0
Effect Sizes
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2 2.5
Effect Sizes
Study references available upon request

6. Coping & Resilience Reduced Alcohol Risk
Outcome K Time N Tx/Contl
Work Stress1 1 6 mo 351/187
Personal Stress4 1 12 mo 235/230
Healthy Unwinding
after work8 1 1 mo 125/139
Stress Competent9 1 1 mo 158/158
Resilience10,11 2 1 mo 227/0
Outcome K Time n Tx/Contl
Work Productivity
Problems6,7,12 4 1-12 Mo. 836/606
Alcohol Frequency6,7 2 6 Mo. 624/415
Heavy Drinking1,12 2 6-12 Mo 789/469
Binge Drinking12,13,14 3 3-18 Mo 342/247
Coworker Drinking
Climate1,6,13 3 1-6 Mo 559/378
Work Stress
Personal Stress
Healthy Unwinding
Stress Competent
Resilience
Productivity Problems
Alcohol Frequency
Heavy Drinking
Binge Drinking
Drinking Climate
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
Effect Sizes
-0.5 0 0.5 1.0 1.5
Effect Sizes
Study references available upon request

7. … is honored to have served these and many other amazing clients
www.organizationalwellness.com
RECOGNITIONS
Dipartimento Dipendenze di Milano

9. Pre and Post Survey (N = 40) (Item wording condensed)
Statements (Rating on 5 point “Disagree” to “Agree” response scale) Pre-baseline 6 wk-Post T-value*
(1-confidence) I am able to help client tap their resilience 3.78 4.43 5.59
(2-presence) I am fully present when client share adversity 4.45 4.80 4.58
(3-own story) My coaching is informed by my resilience story 3.90 4.43 4.24
(4-moving) I know when client moves from coping resilience 3.65 4.45 6.15
(5-mind/body) It is easy to bring mind-body practice into session 3.63 4.15 4.89
(6-tools) I have all tools to help clients work through stress 2.70 3.88 7.36
(7-research) I know research behind positive transformation 2.73 3.98 9.78
(8-trigger) I know what to do when client is “emotionally triggered” 3.28 4.15 7.00
(9-action plan) I can help clients create thriving action plans 3.83 4.45 5.61
(10-resources) I know client’s workplace resources for MH 3.63 4.25 4.41
(11-limits) I know limits of my “scope of practice” for MH issues 4.20 4.78 5.11
(12-safe space) easy to create a safe space when coaching 4.25 4.65 4.28
(13-identify potential) I always see potential in client challenge 3.60 4.13 4.24
(14-stress potential) I know how to bring out the potential of stress 3.20 4.05 6.02
(15-client presence) I can set aside my stress/reactions to be present 4.13 4.60 4.66

10. My ability to bring in resilience when coaching
or supporting others in general. (M = 4.1, SD = .77)
Knowing how to bring out the positive potential
behind the stressors (M = 3.95, SD = .67)
My knowledge of and ability to talk with
confidence about resilience. (M = 4., SD = .77)
My ability to help others get in touch
with their resilience story. (M = 3.9, SD = .83)
48%
43%
57%
43%
24%
29%
19%
33%
Improved (Sample Items) ◼ A Good Deal ◼ Greatly
RESULTS (ONE YEAR FOLLOW-UP) (N=21)

11. Overview
Basic Models and
Concepts

12. Empower Health
Consciousness
Job Crafting
Resilience Story
1. One’s resilience story is fundamental
2. Affirm core elements of resilience journey
3. Distinguish momentary “trigger” - ongoing stress
4. Support client in transforming the environment
5. Utilize worksheets as levers
6. Identify set-point/reinforce “next level” signs
7. Create coaching “couch” (safety during trigger)
8. Find right tool at the right time/OK to be stuck
9. Evaluation & Monitoring
10. Action Planning
Core Elements of Resilience-to-Thrive Coaching
Evolutionary Process Principles Tools
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

13. 13
RAW COPING POWER
We each have the innate or
inborn capacity to cope with
stress.
As human beings, we are
“hard-wired” to know how to
deal with, learn from, and
transform difficult situations.

14. Positive
Audacity
(Free Download)
https://bit.ly/POSAUD

15. Flourish
Figure Out
Friend
Forage
Fight
Flight
Freeze
Stress as
Proactive
(re-wiring)
Stress as
Reactive
(wired)
Stress as
Transformative
Paradigms
Pre-frontal
Limbic
Neuroplasticity
Raw Coping Power (Core Strengths)
Flourishing Tree
Be Present to Stress
PART 1
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

16. At what
level do
you
play at
life?
SET POINT
A relatively fixed
range of happiness
and health we return
to following very
positive or negative
events.
We can change this
when we:
1) give up “tolerating”
negative aspects
2) challenge our own
“upper limit”
3) Practice presence
together
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

17. On the scale
of 1 to 10
where is
your
PERSONAL
set-point
currently at?
(Poll 1)
17
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Adapting
(getting by)
Effective
Coping
Poor
Coping
Resilient
Thriving
Distressed
This is an anonymous poll
POLL 1

18. Flourish
Figure Out
Friend
Forage
Fight
Flight
Freeze
Stress as
Proactive
(re-wiring)
Stress as
Reactive
(wired)
Stress as
Transformative
Paradigms
Raw Coping Power (Core Strengths)
PART 2
The Feeling
Nervous System
Honor Our Process
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

20. Human beings have three brains
Our brains are essentially a
set of tools to help us
manicure* our environment for
thriving.
What we label as “stress” is a
deep knowing that the
oscillation across our systems
are not aligned.
Something is “off.”
*when a flower doesn’t bloom

21. Human beings have three brains
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

22. Panksepp
(Animal Model)
Porges
(Polyvagal)
Davidson*
(cortico-limbic)
Play (Social Joy &
Affection)
Safety
(optimal-arousal)
• REST & DIGEST
• SELF-REGULATE
• SELF-SOOTHE
• SOCIAL ENGAGE
• EYE CONTACT
• FACIAL EXPRESSION
Emotional Styles
1.Resilience
2.Outlook
3.Social intuition
4.Self-awareness
5.Sensitivity to
context
6.Attention
Care (Nurturance)-
Seeking
Lust (sexuality)
Danger
(Hyper-arousal)
FIGHT-FLIGHT
Panic
(Separation Distress) -
Rage (Affective Attack) –
Fear Life Threat
(Hypo-arousal)
Parasympathetic
FREEZE
* Also see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344113/
Neurological models involved in emotional experience
Anterior Cingulate
Thalamus → to Periaquaductal grey
Ventral Tegmental Area
Bed Nucleus Stria Terminalis
Multiple circuits/Hypoth./PAG/Thal
Medial amygdala
Amygdala
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic
Amygdala → Prefrontal Cortex
Hippocampus (Low)
Fusifrom Gyrus *(Low) + Amygdala (High)
Insula (High)
RAS <> Multiple Cortical
Prefrontal > Nucleus accumbens
Dorsal
lateral
pre-frontal
cortex
Mid-cingulate
cortex
Brain Correlates

23. HEALTH → WELLNESS → WELL-BEING → WHOLENESS
SPIRITUAL
INTELLECTUAL
OCCUPATIONAL
SOCIAL
EMOTIONAL
PHYSICAL
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

24. STRESS EVALUATE COPE RESILIENCE THRIVE
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

25. ©OWLS, 2016, 2022

26. Class
Overview
Some Principles
(Examples)

27. PRINCIPLE 1
One’s resilience story is fundamental
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

28. Multi-cultural resilience: listening, honoring, and
loving each other’s tribal journey, lineage, ancestry
It’s time to honor the grandmothers

29. PRINCIPLE 2
Affirm core elements of resilience journey
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

30. PRINCIPLE 3
Distinguish momentary “trigger” from ongoing stress
Health Consciousness helps us “bridge”
those moments of reactivity to triggers.
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

31. https://organizationalwellness.com/
products/download-health-consciousness-materials

32. PRINCIPLE 5
Support client in transforming the environment
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

33. PRINCIPLE 6
Identify set-point/reinforce “next level” signs
©OWLS, 2016, 2022

34. POLL 2
One’s resilience story is fundamental
Affirm core elements of resilience journey
Distinguish momentary “trigger” from ongoing stress
Support client in transforming the environment
Identify set-point/reinforce “next level” signs

35. https://www.realbalance.com/resiliency-coach-training
Next Class Starts
May 9, 2022 - June 10, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 Central time
(5 Fridays - no class May 27th)
Dr. Joel Bennett and Dr. Michael Arloski
Approved for continuing education for HR, EAP, CHES, ACSM

36. https://www.realbalance.com/resiliency-coach-training
Next Class Starts
May 9, 2022 - June 10, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 Central time
(5 Fridays - no class May 27th)
Dr. Joel Bennett and Dr. Michael Arloski
Approved for continuing education for HR, EAP, CHES, ACSM

37. https://www.realbalance.com/resiliency-coach-training
Next Class Starts
May 9, 2022 - June 10, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 Central time
(5 Fridays - no class May 27th)
Dr. Joel Bennett and Dr. Michael Arloski
Approved for continuing education for HR, EAP, CHES, ACSM

38. https://www.realbalance.com/resiliency-coach-training
Next Class Starts
May 9, 2022 - June 10, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 Central time
(5 Fridays - no class May 27th)
Dr. Joel Bennett and Dr. Michael Arloski
Approved for continuing education for HR, EAP, CHES, ACSM

39. https://www.realbalance.com/resiliency-coach-training
Next Class Starts
May 9, 2022 - June 10, 2022 - 6:00 - 7:30 Central time
(5 Fridays - no class May 27th)
Dr. Joel Bennett and Dr. Michael Arloski
Approved for continuing education for HR, EAP, CHES, ACSM