Building Resilience Training Course: Develop the ability to bounce back from adversity

Resilience is the ability to bounce back from adversity. In this course, you will look at where you already feel resilient and the circumstances that can undermine your resilience. We will look at patterns, default behaviours, emotional reactions and expectations. There will be practical, do-able tools and techniques that will help you to build your resilience.

The programme raises awareness of what resilience is, what builds and breaks it and what your default resilience strategies might be.  It’s also an acknowledgement that resilience and our ability to cope goes up and down depending upon a whole range of things: what else might be going on, who else is involved, what actually has happened.

We will pay particular attention to how anyone can make things worse in terms of eroding their resilience by spending too much time and energy being distressed rather than getting ready for the best possible solution under the circumstances.

Training Objectives

By the end of the programme participants will be able to comprehend:

• Resilience as a capacity that can be developed.
• The associated behaviours and emotions that can accompany resilience.
• Resilience as a buffer to stress.
• The resilience cycle: from trigger to solution.
• The factors identified as supporting/building resilience: Emotional control, proactivity, solution finding, acceptance, seeing the bigger picture and more.
• The need to be prepared to be broken and rebuild resilience. Again and again. It’s the circle of life.
• Combating the undermining voice that comes from within.
• Processes to help develop and deepen resilience.