Take part in an inspiring and stimulating event where you connect with like-minded people.
27th March 2025 from 6 to 8:30pm at The Melting Pot, Edinburgh.
Transform the stress, uncertainty and conflicts that so often accompany the challenges you face in life and work.
The IDG Edinburgh Resilience Hub community explores how to thrive with long-term resilience through complex adaptive challenges. Together we can make our world a better place, one step at a time.
This IDG event is for you when you have experienced challenges that stretch your inner capacity to deal with them (whether personally or within your team or organisation). The IDGs can help you transform that challenge and the associated stress, 'fire-fighting', overwhelm, conflicts, or 'feeling stuck', to positive and sustainable ways to thrive. Many of our challenges in this fast-changing world are complex adaptive challenges - those annoyingly persistent problems, issues and challenges that don't have easy or obvious solutions, or no single solution. These are the challenges that you might be able to 'fix' or resolve to some extent for a while but then it recurs or just raises another issue. The IDGs support us to enhance resilience with optimism, perseverance and courage to take action - to "dare to do differently."
Resilience encompasses (i) the ability to predict and prepare for difficult conditions, which is why enhancing systems awareness is so valuable to raise resilience, and (ii) the ability to respond effectively and bounce back from such conditions when they occur. The IDG skills are valuable for both these components of resilience. Resilient people, teams and organisations respond to complex challenging circumstances more effectively.
The IDG Edinburgh Resilience Hub is for change-makers, managers and leaders and aspiring change-makers, managers and leaders in any profession and sector, who want to address challenges in life, in work and/or in sustainability.
Dr Sue Mitchell will introduce the IDG framework, together with short video excerpts of speeches by some of the incredible speakers at the IDG Summits and IDG events that Sue has attended. The framework has 23 IDG skills in the five pillars of Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating and Acting.
Then you will join small group round-table conversations, generating new perspectives through the IDG lenses for tackling your own current pressing challenges. We'll conclude with a plenary to share insights and ideas for action.
There will be plenty of time to network and make connections with others in the room. Overall, we aim to create an informal yet inspiring environment to enjoy exploratory, curious conversations around the sticky problems and complex challenges that are creating fear, friction or frustration in life and in work.
Date: Thursday 27th March 2025
Time: 6pm to 8:30pm
Location: The Melting Pot, 15 Calton Rd, Edinburgh EH8 8DL
Refreshments: There will be very light refreshments - tea/coffee/cordial/water and finger nibbles including biscuits, nuts, and fruit. There will be opportunity for replenishing refreshments and comfort breaks during the event.
Dr Sue Mitchell is an author, executive coach, keynote speaker, facilitator and director of Aeona, a coaching and leadership consultancy delivering masterclasses, coaching and leadership and team development programs with a focus on resilience, mental strength and mindset approaches to achieve positive outcomes with high wellbeing and high performance. Her book is "The Authority Guide to Engaging your People". Aeona is hosting the IDG Edinburgh Resilience Hub online community.
Sue is a former evolutionary ecologist and expedition leader and recently qualified as a practitioner of equine shiatsu. Sue brings a unique blend of science, leadership and coaching to her virtual and in-the-room engagements with a focus on insightful and interactive think-tank sessions, masterclasses and keynotes. Her unique perspective combines a spirit of adventure with the rigor of scientific thought and the value of emotional and sensory perception.
“As a scientist, I was trained to take the person out of everything, to focus on the science and the task to get properly objective results. However, over the years, I’ve come to realise that no matter what discipline or sector you work in, you can only be your best and inspire high performance (for yourself and others) when you put the person into everything. I help you do this through a mindset approach to inner sustainability, self-leadership and leading others that gives you tools to raise wellbeing, engagement AND performance.”
Alice Paterson is a coach, facilitator, trainer and director at Zing Coaching, a life coaching and wellbeing consultancy, delivering coaching and resilience training, along with wellbeing workshops and retreats. Her holistic approach is supported through certifications in emotional intelligence for leaders and mental fitness through positive intelligence. She has experience working a variety of organisations ranging from small environmental non-profits to multinational management consultancies. She now shares what she's learned along the way in order to help others unlock their potential and find their zing - energy and enthusiasm.
Alice is a board trustee of several organisations, and until recently was Joint Acting COO of Changing the Chemistry, which aims to improve board effectiveness through diversity of thought.
The Melting Pot is Scotland’s Centre for Social Innovation. An inspiring community of people striving to make the world a better place.
A place to meet, work and collaborate. Our central Edinburgh hub offers a warm and inviting workspace away from home, whilst our meeting rooms provide a convenient venue for events. A champion of Good Ideas. Our incubator programme equips budding entrepreneurs with the knowledge, skills and networks to turn ideas into impactful ventures. A connector and exchanger of knowledge. We share our expertise with other organisations to develop thriving places with purpose, and we host inspiring events to educate, connect and inspire.
Our format will be similar to the Women in Sustainability events that Sue hosted when she led the WINS Edinburgh Hub. (Note, while WINS members are mainly sustainability professionals, the IDG Hub welcomes members from any profession and sector.) These are some of the feedback comments after WINS events - and the IDG Hub events are set to be equally inspiring and energising.
Register by 19th March for the early bird (EB) rate. Choose the price tier according to what is possible for you at this time. There are three affordable price options so you can choose the level that best suits your current circumstances.
If your organisation is paying for your ticket, we encourage you to choose the fair or generous option. Thank you. If you require a VAT receipt, please request one by email.
As well as in-person events, we would love to enable participants to continue the conversations and connections beyond the room. We are starting a free online community for the IDG Edinburgh Resilience Hub, operated via Aeona's Adaptable Leadership, Inner Sustainability platform on Heartbeat. Here you can get to know others in the IDG Edinbugh Resilience Hub before the event and continue your interaction afterwards, with access to online resources and events. This is where you get advance pre-view of the IDG Hub planned events calendar which will be posted after this founding event on 27th March. You can leave anytime.
We'll be hosting some free online events, while these in-person events in Edinburgh have paid registration to contribute towards covering the costs of putting these events on and hosting the community.