Bouncing Back: Resiliency and Reconnection After Crisis
This session is offered as part of Collaborate Consulting’s Grounded Leadership series: workshops that sit at the intersections of professional development and mental health.
When a workplace experiences profound loss—whether through the passing of a colleague, organizational restructuring, layoffs, or another form of disruption—it leaves more than a logistical gap. It leaves emotional debris: confusion, grief, disconnection, and uncertainty. Without space to process and recalibrate, teams can struggle to re-establish trust, morale, and cohesion.
Bouncing Back is a healing, forward-focused session that helps organizations recover after a crisis. Rooted in evidence-based mental health practices and inspired by Brené Brown’s Rising Strong framework, this session offers a path toward meaningful reconnection and collective resilience.
Co-led by Trystan Reese, a certified Dare to Lead facilitator with extensive organizational development experience, and Jonathan Boland, a trauma-informed therapist and Navy veteran, this session holds space for both reflection and rebuilding.
Participants will:
Make meaning of the disruption by exploring the shared and individual impact of the event.
Learn a grounded framework for post-crisis growth, centered around truth-telling, boundary-setting, and self-compassion.
Build trauma-informed tools for navigating shame, guilt, anger, and fear in the workplace.
Create a shared plan for reconnection, so the team can move forward with clarity, cohesion, and renewed purpose.
This session is ideal for organizations that want to honor the emotional complexity of what their teams have experienced—while also investing in their long-term strength and solidarity. Resilience isn’t about “bouncing back” to how things were—it’s about bouncing forward, together.
