Resilience Training Course - 1 Day

Resilience is the ability to successfully absorb and beneficially utilise the inevitable problems and difficulties of modern living.

Building resilience allows us to maintain our mental and physical health and to continue making progress even during difficult times.

Resilience is based upon learning how to manage our mind and body, and its rections to stress.

All stressors have three components; Intensity, Duration, Frequency. If we want to manage stress, we must manage these three factors.

Objective stressors are imposed on you from the external environment.
We may not be able to control objective stressors: Heat, cold, other people’s behaviour, illness, injury, etc.

Subjective stressors, we impose on ourselves due to poor habits of thought, communication, and action
Subjective stressors ARE within our control. To build resilience we take control of ourselves

Thoughts create feelings. If we want to influence how we feel, we can do that by becoming aware of and controlling the content of our dominant thoughts.

Thoughts are expressed in mental images and internal conversations. If we want to control our thoughts, we can do that by becoming aware of and controlling the conversations we have in our minds and with other people.

Conversations with others affect our feelings. Some people inject negative emotions into our minds; other people inspire positive emotions. We become more aware of the two kinds of people, and we favour the positive while reducing exposure to the negative kinds.

Mind and body are one integrated system. If the body is well, the mind feels better. If the body is unwell, the mind feels worse. If we want to feel better emotionally, then we can do that by making the body healthier through proper sleep, nutrition, and exercise.

Being happy takes energy, which must be generated by good health habits. We will design a set of health habits that generate abundant energy and eliminate bad health habits that rob us of energy.

It is our interpretation of events that cause our emotional responses. If we interpret an event to be fearful, then we feel afraid. If we reinterpret the SAME event to be exciting, then we feel excited, NOT afraid. The event remains the same, but we feel differently because we reframed the meaning of the event. If we want to change how we feel, we must interpret events in ways that empower us, and we stop interpreting events in ways that disempower us.

It's easy to be positive when things are going well. It is not so easy when things are going badly. But that is when we need it most. We will create a system that triggers us to use our emotional intelligence when we need it most.

Stress is often caused by trying to do too much at the same time. Stress can be reduced by prioritising tasks and putting things in their correct order of importance. We then tackle one task at a time. That reduces stress and keeps us moving forward.

Success is not an event; it is a process, which is based upon five words: Purpose, plan, action, feedback, change. The system is so simple, and we can use it to make ourselves more successful by consciously using the continuous improvement success formula.

Now that we know how to help ourselves, we can use the same methods to help others. Let's help other people manage their emotions and feel stronger, more resilient, and positive.