Resilience skills (online)

This is a 1 day course delivered online over 2 sessions (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

To increase participants' familiarity with resilience skills, with the dual benefit of protecting staff wellbeing and promoting the self-help capacity of clients

Course objectives

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

• Be aware of an 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

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