Workshop: Boosting Day-to-Day Resilience at Work

Resilience in the workplace is the ability to cope with the demands and challenges of your day-to-day tasks, projects, and the interaction with the people you work with.
The American Psychological Association defines resilience thus:
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioural flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.

A number of factors contribute to how weil people adapt to adversities, predominant among them:
• the ways in which individuals view and engage with the world
• the availability and quality of social resources
• specific coping strategies

Psychological research demonstrates that the resources and skills associated with more positive adaptation (i.e., greater resilience) can be cultivated and practiced. This workshop will examine:
• Different types of resilience – what is meant by Emotional, Physical and Psychological Resilience
• Exploring the eight pillars of resilience, keys to building inner strength – A Forward-Looking Approach, A Solution-Orientated Approach, Acceptance, lntrospection, Maintaining Networks and Good Connections, Optimism, Taking Responsibility for Oneself, and Rest and Relaxation.
• Exploring the seven Cs – Competence, Confidence, Connection, Character, Contribution, Coping and Control.