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Description

Professional Resilience: Absorbing a Setback, Restarting and Sustaining Momentum

Two days to regain momentum after a professional setback and strengthen your support base

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Foundation
  • Up to 6 participants

A project shelved after two years of work, a role eliminated, a public failure in a meeting. After the shock, many professionals keep moving mechanically without having processed anything, and the next minor incident then takes on disproportionate weight.

This 14-hour programme focuses on the ability to absorb a professional setback and then restart. Participants analyse what helped them through past difficulties, examine the way they interpret failure, identify the relational support they can draw on and prepare the conditions for a realistic restart.

Learning objectives

  • Analyse the resources that made it possible to get through a past setback
  • Identify your habitual way of interpreting professional failure
  • Formulate an alternative reading of a difficult situation
  • Identify the relational support available in periods of fragility
  • Build the steps of a restart following a setback

What makes this programme different

A retrospective review of setbacks already overcome and the resources used
Failure-reframing exercises conducted in pairs within a precise framework
A realistic restart plan drafted and then tested with the group

Programme

1What Helps You Absorb a Setback

Looking back at difficulties already faced

  • Analysis of a professional setback already overcome
  • Identification of the personal resources and support used
  • Distinguishing between absorbing and ignoring
  • Effects of an unprocessed shock on the rest of a career path

2Interpreting Differently

The way we read failure

  • Identifying your automatic explanations after a failure
  • The share attributed to yourself, to others and to circumstances
  • Formulating a verifiable alternative reading
  • Effect of interpretation on the ability to restart

3Drawing on Others

The network as a resource

  • Identifying key support people inside and outside the organisation
  • Formulating a request for help without undermining yourself
  • Dealing with relationships that weigh on you in difficult periods
  • Professional support options available in case of lasting difficulty

4Restarting

The conditions for a restart

  • Choosing a first objective of modest size
  • Breaking down the steps and setting a realistic pace
  • Spotting relapse signals and planning responses
  • Capturing what the setback has taught you

Who is it for

Anyone who has been through or is currently going through a professional setback, as well as managers exposed to demanding situations.

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.