Resilience skills (online)

This is a 1 day course (for individuals) using a combination of video based content, with downloadable handouts and live webinars.

Also available (online for teams).

Course overview

Strength-building positive psychology interventions of proven effectiveness; for staff wanting to protect their own wellbeing, alongside promoting self-help skills in the people they work with.

Resilience training has been shown to reduce the risk of depression and anxiety. 

Course aims

 To develop participants’ understanding of how resilience can be strengthened by learnable skills. The course focuses on evidence-based interventions and self-help tools that are easily applied and taught

To increase participants’ familiarity with resilience insights, interventions and self help practices they can use themselves and pass on to the people they work with

Course objectives

By the end of the course participants will have had opportunities to:

• Be aware of the evidence base showing that resilience training reduces the risk of depression, anxiety, stress-related conditions and drink/drug misuse
• Recognise how growth mindsets can help recovery from setbacks
• Explore methods for drawing out strengths in themselves and/or clients
• Become more familiar with practical strategies for problem solving, recovering from setbacks, dealing with distress and improving relationships

There are two main elements to the course:

• 1) A video based online resource, with 3 hours of material, hosted on Ruzuku.

Video material and downloadable handouts are available a week before the course, so you can watch some or all of it at your own pace before the day, or you can watch on the day (you will have long-term access to this resource).

• 2) Two live webinars using Zoom (these are not recorded).

Maximum group size: 16 people

Target audience:

This course is designed both for staff wanting to protect their own wellbeing in a time of uncertainty and for practitioners wanting to strengthen self-help skills in their clients.

Competences: NHS KSF HWB1