Wrestling with Resilience: A Handbook for Developing Resilience and Mental Toughness (2nd edition)
Christopher Shen
How can we be resilient and flexible when facing difficult challenges and adversity in our work, and in our life? How can we develop our resilience and mental toughness to perform under stress and pressure? Wrestling with Resilience is a handbook that answers these questions.
Written with Associate Professor Simon Moss, 'Wrestling with Resilience' 2nd edition is an accessible handbook for developing resilience and mental toughness. This latest edition also includes recommended habits and practices to build resilience for COVID-19.
Written in a straightforward, accessible style, Wrestling with Resilience is designed to introduce and develop practical skills in controlling stress, developing mental toughness and resilience, maintaining confidence and self-esteem, and performing under pressure. It will also help instill an attitude of initiative, ownership, and self-reliance.
Wrestling with Resilience is available to buy from your local bookseller and online internationally from Amazon.
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About The Authors
Christopher Shen is an Australian psychologist who has a passion for developing high performance solutions in the workplace. He has provided psychology services for major transport infrastructure projects with great success, including the Level Crossing Removal Project, Suburban Rail Loop, Metro Tunnel, West Gate Tunnel Project, City Link Tulla Widening Project, and the Victorian Regional Rail Link.
A Registered Psychologist and a member of the Australian Psychological Society, Christopher offers executive coaching, leadership development programs, and team building workshops to foster talent. He also teaches organisations to identify and nurture high achievers in their workplace, by conducting emerging leaders' programs and facilitating talent identification practices. Christopher also conducts training to help leaders and managers better perform in their jobs, develop their leadership skills and behaviours, and facilitate their operational and strategic vision and planning. Christopher also provides psychology services and employee assistance programs to individuals to help with support and assistance in difficult times.
A key motivation of Christopher's corporate work is his passion for elite achievement in sport and personal development. He has represented Australia in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and competed in several mixed martial arts fights. Christopher coaches tackling and body contact skills and conducts resilience training for community football clubs throughout Victoria. He also officiates as a Judge for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, an international mixed martial arts sports event.
With a positive and engaging style, Christopher draws on his experience as an actor in feature films, TV series, TV commercials, and print media to make his presentations impactful and memorable.
You can learn more about the impactful work of Christopher Shen by visiting his website www.christophershen.com.au and you can connect with him online via Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Simon Moss is Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor at Charles Darwin University. His primary research interest concerns how characteristics of organisations and societies, such as inequality of income or leadership, influence the brain functioning- and ultimately the mood, creativity, intuition, engagement, honesty, and altruism - of individuals. To investigate these issues, Simon has published a range of books and articles in the fields of leadership, personality, motivation, integrity, and stress; including, The Science of Management, Sustainable Coaching, The Negative Side of Positive Thinking, Where Should I Work?, and Emotional Intelligence: A Journey to the Source.
