Deep Resilience: The Keys To Sustainable Strength — with Dr. Sam Akbar
Dr Sam Akbar sees resilience not a trait, but as something we can learn to build. In this coming session she'll share the evidence; and offer clear, actionable, and practical tools that help us build up our resilience reservoirs.
Resilience has become a potent buzzword personally and professionally over the last decade, but it really needs a rethink if we are to thrive. Resilience has become code for ‘toughen up, work harder, don’t complain.’ It’s a strategy that might work a little in the short-term but is problematic over time.
Dr Sam Akbar proposes a radical rethinking—where resilience is not always about the suppression of pain or the relentless pursuit of overcoming obstacles. Instead, it's about recognising when to let go, when you can push on, when to rest, and when to listen to the signals our minds and bodies send us.
Deep Resilience offers a more sustainable model of strength backed by clear, actionable, and practical skills for leaders and teams to build resilience reservoirs for the future.
Spend 60 minutes with Sam
An expert clinical psychologist, speaker and author of the best-selling Stressilient, Sam has distilled years of hard-won wisdom into effective stress management for individual and teams.
In this coming session, led by Sam, you'll be invited to rethink resilience itself — not as a mere capacity to endure but as a profound, nuanced engagement with our vulnerabilities and limitations to build long-term strength and enhance performance. Sam's belief is that Resilience is not a trait – it is something you learn to build.
What you'll learn
— How to reframe unhelpful thinking and spot cognitive errors
— How to manage difficult emotions which impact on well-being
— How to regulate their nervous systems under stress
— How to manage boundaries
— How to unlock upward spirals
And you'll come away with concrete, actionable and practical tools to put into practice immediately.
About Dr Sam Akbar
Clinical Psychologist, Dr Sam Akbar, is an acclaimed author, speaker and expert in stress, resilience and trauma. Her expertise in treating refugees with PTSD provides a unique insight into resilience.
Renowned for the internationally translated handbook, 'Stressilient: How To Beat Stress and Build Resilience,' Sam is adept at making complex psychological ideas accessible and practical for teams and individuals.
Sam's on a mission to empower leaders and teams with practical tools to navigate the challenges of the modern workplace, fostering deep engagement and reducing burnout.
Praise for Stressilient
’…short, sharp guide to managing your mind.’ — The Sunday Times Style
‘If I could inject it, I would.’ — Refinery29
‘Brilliant’ — The Telegraph