we've decoded resilience for you, making it easier to understand and faster to learn

at the heart of the wabisugi journey is a powerful model that has been tried, tested and proven to deliver extraordinary results. having a visual framework helps you to conceptualise all the elements of resilience, join the dots and work on the right areas for you. 

Imagine having more...

Energy

Clarity

Endurance

Vitality

Vibrancy

Effective decision-making

Accountability

Engagement

Unity

Performance

Confidence

and less...

Stress

Conflict

Overwhelm

Burnout

Worry

Feeling down and anxious

Arguing

Procrastination

Poor decision-making

Confusion

Tiredness

Jacqui Edmiston - Founder, Breathe

“wabisugi is a fabulous collection of curated resources and advice to assist with improved resilience and leadership. It identifies numerous options to explore that there’s bound to be more than a few that resonate and which can be selected and applied, tailored to need. The videos are easy to follow, very personable, and peppered with lived experience and meaningful anecdotes. The toolkit is extremely comprehensive and provides a really helpful resource library for ongoing referral. I thoroughly recommend this for anyone wanting to take their “game” to the next level”.

Wing Commander Philip Holdcroft, RAF Pilot

Nicola Huelin, MPower

"this course absolutely changed the way i look at myself and what i can achieve. creating the right mindset for success and having a robust toolkit available has increased my confidence and more importantly my results. i feel more alive!" 

Mette Kroggard Møllemand - Professional Development Consultant at Specsavers

Graham’s wabisugi journey has a very easy set-up from start to finish. You are guided well through the journey and it is super easy to use.

Within the first days, even hours, after watching just some of the videos, I took myself in applying some of the good advice and knowledge you gain in the journey. Especially from the applied positive thinking part. Because of Graham’s wabisugi journey I feel more comfortable facing challenging and tackle them in a resilience way.

There are several references to previous videos during the journey, so you know how everything is connected, and how the different parts all link to being more resilience. The toolkit material covers widely, and I can easily choose the materials I want to dig deeper into and that works for me.

Graham's experience in working with different leaders in different surroundings shines through during the whole wabisugi journey, and you will with guarantee be able recognise, hear something familiar or identify yourself with a few of these stories. I know I did several times.

Steve Leach - Sales Director, Nisa

Very happy to personally recommend the WabiSugi leadership approach to resilience. After benefitting from “Leadership Laid Bare”, the timing of Graham’s latest training couldn’t have been better for me personally.

Leading a team can be a challenge at any time but 2020 has been, without doubt, the biggest test of my 30 year career in retail.

What I loved about wabisugi was the simplicity of its approach - bite sized, easy to follow tutorials backed up with engaging checklists and supporting materials.

Once I started the course I soon found myself revisiting content and reflecting on new techniques and approaches to support the why, the what and the how.

My support network definitely needs some more work and focus and I’ve picked up some great tips for cascading and communicating change.

Determined to develop how I make a difference leading both myself and my own team to continued success, these techniques will prove invaluable – many thanks!

a tried, tested and proven framework to boost your resilience

the wabisugi framework decodes resilience for you. just like mastering a skill in sport, you need to break it down into smaller segments to practice your drills until they become a natural way of working. the online course helps you do that in the context of resilience. it's designed to build your confidence, not just your skills and knowledge.

we have decoded what success looks like and more importantly made it easy for you to learn!

want to read more about it first?  wabisugi 'the book' is available from our Leadership Vault >>

"A great deal has been written about the topic of resilience, ranging from the scientific to the banal. However, this excellent book is written by someone who's been delivering management, leadership, and personal effectiveness training for decades. As a consequence, the book is steeped in practical approaches and tools for actually developing greater resilience. Anyone familiar with Reivich and Schatte's work on The Resilience Factor will recognise familiar themes. But while their approach was more psychological, illustrated with anecdotes that may or may not have been true, this book is prefaced by about 20 pages of a deeply personal journey. This lends the book not only a more intimate tone, but also somehow greater credibility; these are real people facing real difficulties, and not the classic "Julie failed to get her promotion" corporate anecdotes that fill other business books.

The second half of Wabisugi is given over to around 50 practical tips and tools that can be applied by pretty much anyone. Each is covered typically within 1 page, with many including a description of the exercise and directions on how it should be done. Some are as simple as "heart-based breathing" (something I should practice while trying to get two hyperactive kids through bedtime), to the topic of emotional intelligence (a topic worth many books on its own). It's all set within a framework of six pillars, which makes it very accessible.

If you're looking for something both genuine and practical, then Wabisugi gets a whole-hearted recommendation from me.)  J Evans