ABSTRACT
The author attended most of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminars on ethical leadership. Inspired by these debates, he devised a training course to raise spiritual self-awareness among individuals participating and to explore how this might translate into enhanced resilience and integrity in their respective organizations. One of the challenges of ethical leadership is to resist riding roughshod over individual integrity. Resilience is a quality required by employees across multiple sectors, such as the aftermath of a dangerous rescue operation, living through an acute financial crisis or responding to an adverse OFSTED report. Moreover, it is a goal that is clearly in the interests of both the organization and the individual within it. Philosophical schools and folk traditions around the world have been teaching for centuries that the wise, moral and disciplined life will be strong and resilient life. One of the most well-known examples is the picture described by a Jewish sage called Jesus.
