From Resistance to Resilience: A People-Powered, Appreciative Approach to Positive Change
Change efforts often fail not because people resist change, rather because they resist how change is done. In this energizing, interactive workshop, HR professionals will be introduced to powerful Positive Psychology and Appreciative Inquiry frameworks for creating meaningful, sustainable change. Participants will explore how people experience change, what helps them feel safe, motivated, and involved, and how trust and resilience are built through inclusive, strengths-focused approaches.
Through short interactive reflections, exercises and real-world case insights, attendees will learn how to shift conversations, engage employees as co-creators of change rather than passive recipients, and transform uncertainty into opportunity, shifting organizational resistance into resilient, forward-moving momentum.
Participants will leave equipped with tools to guide their organisations through change with confidence, creating cultures that adapt, grow, and thrive.
BIO
Mireille Pellegrini Petit holds a combined Masters in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology, as well as a Masters in Clinical Psychology. She is an Executive Coach and Organizational Development and Change Management Consultant and is the founder of Thrive Positive, a boutique coaching, training and consulting practice. Mireille is a member and accredited Senior Practioner in Coaching with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) and has over 30 years experience working with clients in public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Mireille brings a strengths-focused lens to her consulting, coaching, leadership and organizational development work. She is passionate about developing a new ilk of positive leaders who are empowered to bring out the best in themselves and others, creating high-performing teams and positive, engaging workplace cultures that enable employees to thrive and flourish. Additionally, Mireille is focused on integrating evidence-based strategies from Positive Organizational Psychology, the science of wellbeing and optimal performance, into the workplace to enhance individual and collective wellbeing and resilience. Her expertise in Appreciative Inquiry, a whole-system, strengths-focused change-management approach, is central to her method of creating systems of shared leadership and collaborative practice.
This approach ensures that all parts of the system co-create and co-design the way forward, fostering positive, sustainable, and transformational change at individual, team, and organizational levels.
