Resilience Skills-(recorded Live Event):
Do you bounce back after experiencing a setback? Or do you struggle when things are not going as planned? Life is full of ups and downs; Having high levels of personal resilience can help you to better manage setbacks and improve your health outcomes.
So, what is resilience and how can we improve it?
What is resilience?
- Resilience is the ability to adapt to difficult situations and or experiences.
- When a negative experience or “crisis” occurs, it is normal for us to lose some functionality temporarily.
- This loss or reduction of functionality can be mental, physical or both.
- Resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’. A person with high resilience will return to their normal functionality much quicker and more effectively than someone with low resilience.
Domains of resilience
There are 5-6 commonly accepted domains or aspects of resilience:
- Vision
- Composure
- Tenacity
- Reasoning
- Collaboration
- Health
Resilience Skills (intro)
- Problem solving is a process that includes:
- Defining the problem
- Identifying the source of the problem
- Brainstorming new ideas
- Evaluating those ideas critically and selecting an alternative solution
- Implementing the solution
- Mindfulness: is a mental state achieved by focusing on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting your honest feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
- Intention: having clear intentions. What is your focus or desired results?
- Attention: Slow down and observe. Acknowledge how you feel physically, emotionally. Accepting how you feel in the moment can help you prepare for a response or action.
- Attitude: keep an open mind as you feel and assess. Don’t let stereotypes and previous experiences cloud your current experience.
- Acceptance- understanding the current state
- Down regulation- the negative
- Up regulation- the positive
- Re-focus or reframe
” No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” (Eleanor Roosevelt,)
- Persistence: the willingness to do or try something even though it is difficult and there is a chance you might fail
- Lean on discipline instead of external motivation
- Create a plan or schedule and follow it
- Realistic Optimism: the ability to balance out the negative and positive and move forward with the belief that the future will be better than the past.
- Reflect on your goals
- Find solutions
- Tweak your goals if necessary
- Problem solving; is a process that includes:
- Defining a problem or concern,
- Identifying the source of a problem,
- Brainstorming and prioritizing new ideas or solutions, then
- Using critical evaluation; to select from those ideas, an alternative solution. And finally
- Implementing the new/alternative solution
- Collaboration:
- Teamwork
- Reaching out for help when you need it
- Removing yourself from toxic relationships and focusing on healthy relationships
- Health:
- Prioritizing 7-9h of quality sleep
- Aiming to achieve 150-300 minutes of cardiovascular exercise each week
Want more Information?
- Check out the Next Steps Alumni Services; including the Building Resilience Education Series
- Ask about Access to the Next Steps Web-Portal upon Graduation at nextsteps@shn.ca