Building Strong Resilience Starts Here

Resilience to stress and adversity is a buildable skill, yet most of our population has only a thin understanding of how to go about doing so.  Studies show that most organizations underinvest in resiliency.  And while many people believe they are highly resilient, studies reveal less than 20% truly are.  In our often volatile, uncertain world, people need greater resilience now more than ever.

Resilience training enables us to manage stress and adversity more effectively. Our degrees of situational resilience (combined with emotional intelligence factors) impact just about everything we do, from our interactions and relationships, to learning, to innovativeness, to decision making, culture atmosphere and teamwork (reference chart A).  Whether labeled resilience, mental strength or well-being, sufficient degrees of resilience is critical to functioning and performing at our best. 

Our ability to notice how our emotions and thoughts are either getting in our way or helping us thrive is critical to our resilience and success. Resilience does not mean being happy all the time. The art and science of resilience is the ability to intentionally experience the right emotion at the right time-intentionality being a key behavioral principle. Strengthening that emotional management ability helps us build up our mental resilience.   

Studies and experience confirm the more strategies a person has learned to consistently apply, the benefits to their overall resilience and well-being more readily accumulate and are apt to be sustained.

Resilience conditioning through strategy application expands our “productive stress” zone.  And greater resilience conditioning enables us to more readily and rapidly recognize and respond to stress overload conditions and get us back to our productive stress management levels (reference chart B).

This best-in-class program leverages 25 years of rich, deep and proven research sources and application into resiliency (and emotional intelligence at times) and positive psychology.   It combines over 50 resiliency building strategies.  For example:  learning to actively manage our self-talk, having strategies for emotional triggers, cultivating positivity, avoiding catastrophic thinking, or reframing negativity as a learning experience.  Those, and dozens of other strategies, have been successfully taught and utilized in diverse environments: education, business, athletics, law enforcement and the military.  All strategies can be used immediately by program participants, with positive benefits when consistently applied.

Program Overview

Resilience is developed through a combination of motivational disposition (mindset), training and experiences.  This program leverages the intersection of all three of those factors.    It is designed to operate as a system and the content delivery is scaffolded as such.  There are seven (7) unique but interrelated comprehensive modules that build upon one another (reference chart C).

The program modules are, in sequence:

1.        Foundational knowledge, resiliency self-assessment and goal setting

2.        Positive mindset management strategies

3.        Character strength understanding and application

4.        Purposefully cultivating positive emotions

5.        Managing and overcoming negative emotions

6.        Finding meaning and purpose

7.        Developing positive relationships 

This program also enhances a participant’s ability to coach and help others regarding managing stress/adversity and developing their resilience.

Each module is designed for a 60–75-minute session delivery. Workbooks are provided in a digital format, per module. Each session is designed for a balanced combination of teaching/training, interaction, discussion and application.  Forms of group/teamwork and role-playing are utilized at times to cement and reinforce the training with live application.  These sessions are NOT “lectures”.

Session Delivery Formats

There are several scalable session delivery formats available to choose from.  Further session format customization can be discussed as needed. 

A.       90-minute program overview (primarily intended for leadership and staff awareness)

B.       Seven-session program training series

C.      Two ½ day session training – a two-part series

Both in-person and virtual delivery modes are available. Optimal participants per session is 30 to 40 individuals on average as a guideline, however, a larger cohort size can be discussed. 

Pricing – Determined by client’s scope, timing and customization needs.