Resilience Training Course - 1 Day

We examine what is meant by the term, Resilience.

Resilience is a science, and like all sciences, it relies upon a clear definition.

We will ask you to write a personal definition of what you mean by the term “resilience”.
We will agree the meaning and we will give concrete examples of resilience that we can use to illustrate the concept.

A deficiency of any positive quality creates painful consequences.
We will examine the inevitable consequences that befalls anyone who lacks resilience.
We ask you for, and we give, concrete examples, to illustrate the point.

An abundance of any positive quality creates huge benefits. We will explore the wonderful benefits we can expect to enjoy as a result of developing resilience.

We name some definite examples, to illustrate the point.
When we finish this introductory section, we all understand what resilience is, and we are highly motivated to develop more.

The human brain has two main elements, the intellect and the emotions.

We analyse the emotions first. Emotionally, people respond in different ways to IDENTICAL circumstances. Why is that? We go into the details and we learn important psychology.

Emotions are not random. They have definite causes.

Emotions are the products of beliefs about what things mean.

We get into the details of how each person generates their emotional life, by attributing personal meaning to shared events.

There are certain belief systems that almost guarantee emotional fragility and instability. We will give a few examples and ask you to come up with some too.

There are certain belief systems that almost guarantee emotional toughness and emotional stability. What are they?
How can we install them into our brains?

We teach people how to change the way they feel in any given set of circumstances. This information has the potential to change your life, because YOU can determine HOW you feel in any situation, and NOT become a puppet of the environment.

The behaviourists were wrong. We are NOT “The Products of Environment”. We are all able to change how we feel, because you can all, at any moment, decide to change your mind.

We take conscious control of the meaning that we attribute to events.

Emotional intelligence is the skill of controlling emotional responses by intelligently, changing the evaluative meaning applied to any set of circumstances. You do this primarily to help yourself first.

We will teach you the steps to achieve this goal.

You help yourself first so that you are then in a position to help others.

Now you know how to give yourself strength, you use the same ideas to induce strength and stability into the minds of others.

We will teach you the steps to become a source of strength and resilience for others.

The second part of the training is to discuss intellectual responses:
It is important to think situations through, logically, (not emotionally).

Rational is a type of thought process with certain distinctive characteristics.

We will discover what it means to think rationally / logically.
We will give you the steps to take and the steps to avoid.

Our key skill is to react to events in a manner consistent with purposeful, well-reasoned, logical evaluations of all the available evidence.

That statement takes us into an exploration of the importance of goal setting, clear thinking and accurate communication.

People work better when they are purposeful. When they lack a sense of purpose, they feel aimless and lost. That is obviously not a good mind set.
We examine how to set and clearly define goals.

The next part of the course leads us to a more holistic, organic, and strategic understanding of resilience. We must recognize the nature of the progressive success cycle, and the role that temporary defeats and difficulties play in successful goal directed action.

The success cycle can be seen as a six-part model based upon six related ideas:
Goals, Plans, Actions, Setbacks, Evaluations, Improvements.

Contained within the concept of Success are setbacks, (defeats, and difficulties).
Thomas Edison once wrote: “I am not discouraged; because every failed attempt is one step forward.”

We will investigate the way of life and the culture of “resilient organisations”.

How can we incorporate the PHILOSOPHY of resilience into our organisation and make it our way of doing business?
Our motto might become, “Strength through struggle”.

Everything we have considered so far presumes we have sufficient mental and emotional ENERGY.
To be resilient, we need abundant physical, emotional and intellectual energy.
We will get into the details of how to produce more energy.

Energy is defined as “the capacity to do work”. Energy cannot be created; it must be generated. We generate energy, (or we fail to generate it) by our daily habits.

The amount of energy we have is reliant on our daily habits. Many people who lack resilience have terrible eating, sleeping and exercise habits.
To improve resilience, we improve our nutrition sleep and exercise.

We will uncover the facts about what is “best practice”.
We will develop more energy and we will use it to power more resilience.

The last section of this course is a review of the four parts and a planning session. We ask you how could you best implement this training?