Seven ways to build resilience

Course overview:

Three hours of video content offering practical strategies based on Chris Johnstone’s book, Seven Ways to Build Resilience. Divided into short, easy to watch episodes, the course introduces insights and strategies that strengthen your ability to deal with difficult times, and describes seven essential skills that help your resilience grow. Resilience training has been shown to reduce the risk of depression and anxiety.

Cost: £30 +VAT for individual places, with discounted fees for group bookings:
£30 +VAT per person for 1 to 9 people
£25 +VAT for 10 to 49 people
£20 +VAT for 50 to 99 people
£15 +VAT for 100 to 499 people

Contact us if you would like to make a group booking.

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

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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.

What people say

"This online course has been our most popular training support so far. Your work is incredibly valuable."

Local Authority Workplace Wellbeing Lead, August 2020

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