Resilience skills
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.
The course uses a combination of live webinars and video based content with downloadable handouts, which participants have access to for up to 1 year.
Aim(s):
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.
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
Online course - delivered over Zoom.
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Chris Johnstone
Chris has been involved in teaching resilience and wellbeing skills for over thirty years, and positive psychology since 2005. After a first degree specialising in psychology, he graduated in medicine, trained as a GP and then worked in the mental health field, where for many years he led groups teaching resilience skills. Alongside this, he pioneered the role of positive psychology and resilience training in mental health promotion, the health service and the workplace.
In 2011 he migrated from Bristol to the north of Scotland, and began delivering more of his training work online. His online courses for resilience and wellbeing now reach thousands of people, with participants in more than sixty countries. His books include Seven Ways to Build Resilience and, co-authored with Joanna Macy, Active Hope.
His video-based online course Seven Ways to Build Resilience is available via The Training Exchange.
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