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Resilience skills

Strength-building positive psychology interventions for staff wanting to protect their own wellbeing, alongside promoting resilience skills in others.

One day. For your team. Delivered online.

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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Your trainer(s)

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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What people say

"I enjoyed this session. It was led with kindness, compassion and empathy. Felt like a safe environment to share lived experience and learn from others. With good links for further reading in the future."

Course participant, University of the West of England, June 2025

"Chris has a very gentle presence, great at training and very supportive. He is incredibly knowledgeable and adaptable to requests for information from people on the training."

Community Link Worker, Rethink, February 2026

"Everything was useful and relevant, I’ve learned lots of helpful tools that can not only help myself but other people too. I have learned more about supporting my own wellbeing as well of others. Great course trainer, an absolute fountain of knowledge."

Course participant, November 2024

“This course was very useful and gave me lots of new information to be able to carry into work and home life. Chris was great. I have enjoyed it and felt really engaged throughout.”

Course participant, November 2024

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