Resilience Training Course - 1 Day

We examine what is meant by the word resilience. Resilience is a science, and like all sciences, it relies upon a clear definition.

We will ask you for your personal understanding of resilience.

We will define the meaning and provide examples of resilience, to illustrate the concept.

A deficiency of any positive quality, creates painful consequences.

We discuss the inevitable outcome that befalls anyone who lacks resilience.

An abundance of any positive quality creates huge benefits.

We will explore the benefits we can expect to enjoy as a result of developing resilience.

This introductory section will help you to understand what resilience is, and you will be 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. We will examine the details of this important psychology.

Emotions are not random, they have definite causes. Emotions are the products of beliefs about what things mean.

We explore 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 some examples and ask you to come up with some too.

We explore the belief systems that almost guarantee emotional toughness and emotional stability, and how we can 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 are wrong, we are not the products of the environment. We are all able to change how we feel, since at any moment, we can 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.

We will teach you the steps to achieve this goal.

Emotional intelligence training will not only help you, but you will then be 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 discuss what it means to think rationally / logically and teach you the method to achieve this.

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 mindset.
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 recognise the nature of the progressive success cycle, and the role that temporary defeats and difficulties play in successful, goal-directed action.

The success cycle is 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 said: “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.

We look at how we can incorporate the philosophy of resilience into your organisation and make it your way of doing business. Your 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.

Energy is defined as the capacity to be able to work. Energy cannot be created, it must be generated. We generate energy, or fail to generate it, by our daily habits.

We will teach you how to achieve more energy.

Many people who lack resilience have terrible eating, sleeping and exercise habits.

To improve resilience, we must improve our nutrition, sleep and exercise.

We will uncover the facts about what is best practice.
We show you how to develop more energy and use it to power more resilience.

After a review of the course, we ask you how you plan to implement this resilience training in practice.