Nick Holton

We live in a world of accelerating change and challenges, which often require us to adapt and grow (e.g. tech, geopolitics, social culture shifts, etc). While resilience helps us "bounce back" and sustain performance or well-being by managing and then eliminating adversity, antifragility takes this a step further. Antifragility is the property of systems that allow it to thrive in volatile and uncertain conditions, not just endure them. This session will help you understand how to move beyond simply enduring challenges to actively leveraging them for transformation and long-term success. It's about building a good life and actualizing your potential by developing the agility to tackle challenges and use them in values-aligned ways to achieve the life you dream of.

Attendee Results:

• Identify the different sets of beliefs and behaviors that guide how human beings respond to challenges, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
• Gain insights from the latest research on antifragility, distinguishing from traditional forms of "resilience".
• Understand how your view and processing of an event can shape whether it results in distress, recovery, or post-traumatic growth.
• Learn to leverage discomfort, constraints, and hardships as circumstances to be embraced as your access to innovation and breakthrough growth.
• Gain strategies to develop skills for not only enduring, but actively leveraging and growing from unpleasant experiences.
• Explore a framework to identify helpful habits and behaviors for proactively taking on difficult challenges and embracing the emotions that accompany them.
• Develop the ability to reclaim agency and control over how you view and engage with difficult situations, regardless of the external conditions.
• List key contributors to growth after adversity, including social support, emotional processing, values-based action, and reconstructing personal narratives.