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    Building Resilience
    Provider   Disability & Wellbeing Service

    This six-week online series looks at how we can understand and develop resilience to allow us to cope with the world in different ways. This is an ideal workshop series for those who want to understand more about the positive effects of resiliency.

Duration 6 sessions

Course Type Webinar

Booking Status Contact Provider

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Target Audience: Open to anyone

If you are looking for new ways to cope with stress, or if you are wishing to take steps towards changing your life to address challenges such as stress, this six-week course is ideally suited for you. 

Over the duration of the online course we will examine the impacts of stress from the perspective of positive psychology, covering a wide range of topics and hopefully exploring some areas for personal development which will aid you in coping with stress and overcoming challenges, 

The course covers the following:

  1.  Introduction : What is Resiliency?: 24/10/24 1400-1500
  • Ingredients of Resilience/ the 7C’s 
  • Barriers to resilience   
  • How resilient are you?  

 2. The Foundations: “Take Care of Yourself” : 31/10/24 1400-1500

  • The Stress Bucket   
  • Sleep, diet & exercise  
  • Breathing & meditation introduction 

 

3. Building Connections: 07/11/24 1400-1500

  • Relaxation exercise: building a safe place  
  • Social anxiety psychoeducation   
  • Behavioural experiments   
  • Social skills e.g. conversation strategies  
  • Ideas & places for connections   
  • On and off campus  
  • Stepping outside of your comfort zone image  

 4. Avoiding Seeing Crises as Insurmountable Problems:  14/11/24 1400-1500

  • Relaxation exercise: Leaves on a stream   
  • Cognitive restructuring   
  • Perspective taking - example of someone with resilience & someone without  
  • Keeping an eye on thinking and using it as a way to gauge resiliency levels   
  • Unhelpful Thinking Styles  

 5. Taking Decisive Action:  21/11/24 1400-1500

  • Relaxation exercise   
  • Locust of control  
  • Example of studying e.g. doing a dissertation   
  • Focus plan  
  • Tie in with the foundation!   

 6.Self- compassion input: “Nurture Encouraging Self-talk and Alternative Perspectives” : 28/11/24 1400-100 

  • Link between inner critic, anxiety and resilience  
  • Self- compassion focus  
  • Relapse prevention with early warning signs  
  • How resilient are you now?  

 

 

 

  • 24/10/24 1400-1500
  • 31/10/24 1400-1500
  • 07/11/24 1400-1500
  • 14/11/24 1400-1500
  • 21/11/24 1400-1500
  • 28/11/24 1400-1500

Zoom link leads to workshop registration, this can be accessed through the session bookings



Delivered By: Cara Milor and Ann-Louise Cheshire

Prerequisites

Having the technology to join is the only prerequisite. We understand that attending a group like this me difficult, we would ask that people who join keep their camera's on but understand some people may be uncomfortable with this. We will also ask if people feel like volunteering to join in but there is no obligation to talk, no expectation to join in, if you want to come along purely to be informed we welcome you.