Your Resilience Guide

“Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger” provides a powerful voice for 20 global leaders from a rich variety of backgrounds and heritages to unpack the pandemic.

#Resilience Podcast – Global leaders explore resilience topics. both specific to the Pandemic and broad in scope.

I help Bereaved Fathers move forward from traumatic loss toward new resilient lives.

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RESILIENCE

Let’s look at how we’re stronger and wiser. Let’s look at what we have learned and how we can use it. Let’s look at where we are going, how we will get there, and what it will look like. Certainly, there is no returning to what was before. There will be echoes and shadows, there will be rhythms and images that seem familiar, but there’s no going back. We must discover and embrace how we are stronger and wiser. I’ve asked twenty people from around the globe, men and women, black and white, young and old for their perspective, their insight, and their view of what we’ve gone through and where it might lead. I hope their words can be a shovel that helps unearth how you are stronger and wiser. Because, as we know, what you look for . . . is what you will find.

Why choose Resilience?

In my book “Mine, Ours, and Yours…” I recount the life and death of our son William. He did not get to have the Life that he might have…
…Building Resilience Awareness helps others have a life they never would have had

OUR VISION

Support and contribute to efforts that increase resilience.

OUR MISSION

Promote resilience by interviewing, speaking, coaching, and writing.

Mine, Ours, and Yours

Author Watson Jordan dedicates this book to “all the men who needed and wanted to grieve and heal, who looked for help and found none they could recognize…” In sharing his story of loss and eventual healing, he hopes to encourage other men, especially, as they grieve.

“Mine, Ours, & Yours” is a tender and honest account of a father’s experience through the ever-shifting emotional landscape of the birth and death of his youngest child. Through thoughtful descriptions, Watson invites us to witness the many facets of his life: the familiar and unexpected, joys, heartbreaks, and the intergenerational connection that is both a wound and a salve. Watson shows us that to follow the path of healing, one must look within for answers, depend on the support of the community, and trust that loved ones will find their own unique way forward. “Mine, Ours, & Yours” fills a gap in the self-help literature by providing a father’s perspective, navigating the complex grief associated with the death of a child.

Kimberly Ernst Ph.D.

What we do

Interview

Our Podcast, #Resilience, focuses on topical areas of resilience such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHY.os

We help Teams, Couples, Families, and individuals discover their WHY

Present

Presentations draw from our resilience publications as well as the 5 3 1 plan and TEN10 finance.

Coach

I help Bereaved Fathers move forward from traumatic loss toward new resilient lives.

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Testimonials

The WHY.os experience provided me with insights into key aspects of my thought and decision making processes. The session left me with perspectives on where I've been and guidance on my choices going forward.

Brian N.

It was informative to approach how I work and interact from the “why” perspective and also think about how those categories apply to others. A great new perspective for personal reflection and interaction!

Ed M.

I enjoyed the WHY process. Watson explained the process well and it reinforced some introspection that I had on a professional and personal level.

Doug H.

To be honest I was a little skeptical about the training. While working for a government institution for almost 19 years, I have attended a number of trainings in my day. The why training in my opinion is one of the best trainings I have attended. it was very informative, and the information provided was presented in a way which made the trainee feel engaged and relatable.

Keynon L.

"This is a remarkable book and a testament to healing after the worst thing in the world happens. The book manages to be both sad without being maudlin, and helpful without being preachy. The author shares the pain of his struggles honestly, and yet there is a strong line of hope running through the book. You know that he and his wife and children will be all right. Different. Changed forever. But all right. I recommend this book to anyone who has been touched by unspeakable tragedy. And to anyone who wants to be reassured that even after a place of utter despair, one can still experience a triumph of the spirit."

Margo Warren

“Reading Watson Jordan's memoir brought to mind other powerful testaments to loss and grief such as A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis and A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken. Like these writers, Jordan pulls back the curtain to reveal an intimate account of tragedy as well as enduring love. Jordan's writing is a gift to all of us who have and will face the loss of loved ones.”

James Pharr

“Watson Jordan has written an incredibly honest, moving, and poignant account of how a family deals with the loss of a child. The book is remarkable for many reasons, but two that stand out are its economy and its hope. It is hard to write about such difficult topics with such conciseness and while maintaining so much hope. Jordan is able to strike that perfect balance by being very specific and very personal and yet there is no word that is superfluous. Jordan writes with the sparseness, the directness, the concreteness of Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy, but with the warmth of Henri Nouwen. This book is both real and uplifting. Jordan sugarcoats nothing. But he offers a clear path to healing.”

John Gregory

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