Corporate Wellness
Corporate Wellness & Resilience
The COVID-19 global pandemic offered many teachable moments. Perhaps one of the most critical lessons was the importance of resilience. In recent years, this lesson has been reinforced by ongoing national and global uncertainty and, here on Maui, by the profound and devastating impact of the 2023 wildfires. These events remind us that we cannot predict what lies ahead. What is certain is that adversity, disruption, and loss are part of the human experience. While we cannot prevent hardship, we can build the capacity to meet challenges with greater flexibility and stability. Resilience is what allows individuals, teams, and organizations to adapt, recover, and move forward, often changed, but not broken
Corporate wellness is deeply important to us. The commitment to creating and sustaining a culture of health in the workplace comes from both professional expertise and lived experience. In times of collective stress, whether due to natural disaster, societal change, or economic uncertainty, healthy, supported, and engaged employees are the foundation of organizational stability and recovery. Employees are not just a workforce; they are the heart of a company and one of its most precious resources.
What Is Resilience?
Resilience is best understood as a dynamic process, not a personality trait.
Why Resilience Matters in the Workplace
In 2021, the American Psychological Association’s Work and Well-Being Survey highlighted the impact of chronic stress on employees:
- 79% of workers reported work-related stress in the month prior to the survey
- 3 in 5 reported negative effects such as low motivation or disengagement
- 19% reported reduced effort at work
- 44% reported fatigue or low energy
These findings underscore how prolonged, unpredictable stressors directly affect employee well-being, engagement, and performance.
What Is Resilience Training?
Resilience training consists of education and skill-building programs designed to support employee well-being and sustain performance during periods of stress and change.
Workplace resilience training has been shown to improve:
- Mental health and subjective well-being
- Work performance and productivity
(Arnetz et al., 2009; Grant et al., 2009; Pipe et al., 2012)
Organizations that invest in resilience are better equipped to support employees through disruption and change. Benefits may include improved engagement, reduced turnover, increased retention, decreased absenteeism, fewer disability claims, lower healthcare costs, and reduced presenteeism, outcomes that matter deeply in communities rebuilding after collective trauma.
Contact us to partner and design a customized resilience training program tailored to your organization’s unique needs
Discover Your Inner Resilience (DiY-IR)
DiY-IR is our solution, designed to empower and equip your employees for adversity. It is a skills training program and live virtual workshop series that focuses on:
The Six Keys To Resilience
We developed this program based on the best practice and research in the field of resiliency training.
Instead of a strong focus on mindset and thoughts like other resiliency trainings, our program attends to the wisdom and health of the whole: mind, body, and spirit.
Our method is three-fold:
1) We use experiential learning techniques to increase engagement and interest, and to create the optimal conditions for learning
2)We place strong emphasis on growing awareness of one’s current experience by noticing the sensations of the body. The body is a gateway to our primitive and emotional brains. The act of witnessing rewires the brain, can bring a ton of regulation, increase self-competence, and create a half-second space for choice vs. reactivity
3)We provide juicy tidbits of neuroscience research facts to increase buy-in and interest, and to provide rationale for the program material and activities