One of the best tools I’ve found for increasing personal resilience is the garden metaphor. Resilience is a skill that everyone can strengthen, which helps us cope with adversity and difficult circumstances. You can read more about resilience here: Resilience: What It Is—Why It Matters for Everyone. The more we strengthen our resilience skills, the… Continue reading Using the Garden Metaphor to Strengthen Resilience
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Using the Ocean Metaphor to Increase Personal Resilience
I want to tell you about an ocean metaphor that can help increase our personal resilience. Metaphors can create space for us to see the world in a different way, and the ocean metaphor has the potential to do that. But before I tell you about this metaphor, I invite you to imagine four scenarios… Continue reading Using the Ocean Metaphor to Increase Personal Resilience
Computer vs. Tree: New Metaphors, More Resilience
I have discovered that changing our metaphors can greatly increase our confidence, joy, and resilience. That may seem like a strange claim to make. So let me explain. Metaphors are framing images we use to understand a concept better. They are common in literature. For instance, a poet might compare the moon to a silver… Continue reading Computer vs. Tree: New Metaphors, More Resilience