Resilience Real-Time with Peta Sigley

What does good leadership look like? In this episode, Peta explores the challenges and triumphs of stepping into leadership roles. She offers insights and strategies for new leaders to develop resilience, navigate obstacles, and inspire their teams.

Join Amanda Purnell, Director at Springfox, in this enlightening episode of Resilience Real-Time as she delves into the complexities of perfectionism. Discover the roots of this relentless trait, its impact on our wellbeing, and practical strategies to cultivate a healthier mindset. Learn how to redefine success, practice self-compassion, and embrace imperfection in both personal and professional...

In this episode, Peta defines what is post traumatic growth; likening it to the Japanese practice of Kintsugi, whereby something broken can acquire new beauty. She also explains the difference between post traumatic growth and PTSD and highlights the five signs that post traumatic growth has occurred. Importantly, Peta also provides pointers for leaders to help staff respond to trauma and uncertai...

In this episode, Peta dives further into the topic of how to be happier. She explores the vital importance of investing in human relationships, the Japanese concept of Ma—a pause in time to focus on the small hum of life, and how it is indeed possible for our levels of happiness to be robustly raised by employing an ‘Attitude of Gratitude’.

Over the next two episodes, Peta talks about what it means to cultivate happiness. What makes you get out of bed every day? What do you want to put your whole self into? Exploring what gives you meaning takes time, it’s not a set and forget exercise. But given October is Mental Health Month, the timing is right to start ‘putting in’ and seize hold of your ikigai.

People often engage in avoidance behaviours like drinking, drugs, TV, gaming, overeating, porn, gambling and social media to cope with daily stresses, fear, and worry—also known as ‘dysfunctional coping’. It’s no secret these mood-numbing activities only end up making things worse. In this episode, Peta discusses the value of adopting a daily practice of chunking your day with anchor points , to m...

We are all feeling the loss brought on by the pandemic; missed birthdays, weddings and funerals, as well as all the everyday losses—meeting a friend for coffee, going to the gym, enjoying a concert. This sense of loss is known as ‘disenfranchised grief’ and sadly people often feel guilty about the anxiety, anger and even depression it produces, because it’s not considered grief in the true sense o...

As we continue to experience these uncertain times, Peta provides us with three strategies to help tame the mental chit-chat that comes with worrying about the future—Zoom Out, Talk Out and Step Out—concepts supported by the work of Ethan Kross to help people reach higher levels of happiness in the present moment.

In this episode, Peta explores how mindfulness techniques can help ground us in the present, enabling acceptance of what is happening in our body, emotions and thoughts, rather than being whisked away to the future by unhelpful ‘what if’ scenarios.

Welcome to Resilience Real-Time with Peta Sigley. This episode outlines the challenges facing the education sector amid COVID-19—school closures, relentless demands around online learning, job security and a growing disconnect between education leaders and teachers. In short, our teachers are feeling overwhelmed, fatigued and burnt-out. Now more than ever, our schools need access to the necessary...

Welcome to the second season of Resilience Real-Time with Peta Sigley. This episode talks about some great anchor points that students and parents can use to help guide actions, emotions and thoughts to better cope with uncertainty through COVID-19.

JT steps in to discuss with Peta the numerous health benefits of a daily cup of coffee, from a reduced risk of cancer and stroke to lifting levels of mental focus.

Peta and Simon are taking a couple of weeks off and so we wanted to share with you one of the highest rated episodes in the last 12 months.  For those who want to read / listen to Peta's interview for Body and Soul on Mental Bandwidth you can do so by using the link via the Springfox LinkedIn page

This week on Resilience Real-Time, Peta Sigley talks about how changes to our traditional office constructs have blurred the lines between work and home—referred to as Spillover and Crossover. While this phenomenon certainly includes downward emotional spirals due to stress and anxiety, Peta also discusses the upward emotional spirals that can occur and how staff and leaders can leverage these mom...

Emotional labour is experienced by both men and women and is where we find ourselves working hard to manage or even suppress the emotions to meet the requirements of our work.  Peta Sigley talks about the features of emotional labour and gets to the heart of how to avoid this space through building emotional intelligence.

Imposter syndrome is experienced by so many and involves feelings of not being good enough, a fraud, and thinking that people will find out. Peta Sigley explains how imposter syndrome develops and strategies to minimise its impact.  

In this episode Peta Sigley, CKO at Springfox, explores how you can improve your productivity at work.  Leaving behind the constant thoughts that you don't have enough time, you have no time for self, you can not get it all done.  Exploring what is needed to ensure effective time management to support productivity to ensure you deliver great outcomes.  

Whilst great efforts have been made to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness by those in the public eye, more can be done to reduce the stigmas that have evolved over time within communities and societies. In this episode, Peta Sigley uncovers some of the barriers that are preventing us from moving forward and offers leaders strategies support the mental health of their teams.

Why do we find adapting to change so difficult? In this episode, Peta Sigley discusses the great benefits of change and how positive adaptation directly impacts our resilience. She encourages people and organisations to see change not just as a challenge but also as an opportunity to learn and grow.

While it is normal to want to stay informed about the covid-19 pandemic through endless news channels and radio stations, it is important to recognise that this behaviour can quickly become obsessive and dysfunctional. In this episode, Peta Sigley explores the impact that Headline Stress Disorder is having on millions of people and offers strategies on how to cope.

Peta Sigley navigates the hard reality of empathy and compassion fatigue that comes with taking on others' trauma. She also explores strategies to identify and overcome the emotional and physical exhaustion caused by high levels of stress and burnout which can co-occur in this space.

As many of us are working longer hours than ever before it raises the question does this make me a workaholic?  In this episode Peta helps to explain what workaholism looks like and how this differs from working long hours.

In this episode, Peta Sigley explores how you can support teams who are working in a hybrid or covid environment. We uncover what it takes to become a great team member and what leaders need to think about in order to deliver great outcomes for their people.

As we leave 2020 behind us, it is an important as ever to step into 2021 with the motivation to pursue our goals . Peta explores how we can achieve this...

Peta Sigley explores the latest report of physical activity published by the World Health Organisation.  Looking at how exercise benefits physical and cognitive health.  Outlining what types of exercise are recommended and why this forms part of our resilience.