Building Personal Resilience Training

Resilience isn’t something we either have or don’t - it’s a capacity we can actively develop and maintain. Strengthening resilience helps individuals manage stress more effectively, adapt to change, stay focused under pressure, and build healthier, more productive relationships with colleagues and clients.


Overview

This practical, evidence-based training helps participants understand the factors that influence resilience and develop skills and strategies to strengthen it.

We explore five core elements of resilience, helping participants build greater self-awareness, manage stress and emotions more effectively, adapt to challenges and change, and strengthen the relationships and support systems that help us stay well and perform sustainably.

Formats available

Training can be tailored to your team’s needs and time availability:

Foundation: Half-day in person or two 90-minute virtual sessions

Standard: Full-day in person or two 2.5-hour virtual sessions

Suitable for groups of up to 20 participants.

The content can also be adapted to your organisation’s specific needs, with greater emphasis placed on particular themes or challenges where required.

1. Understanding Resilience:

  • Explore what resilience really means and the factors that influence it

  • Develop greater awareness of your own levels of resilience and what helps sustain them

  • Understand the psychological and physiological aspects of resilience and stress

  • Recognise when you may need to pause, recover or change your approach

  • Consider the role of resilience both at work and in everyday life

2. Understanding & Managing Stress:

  • Develop greater awareness of your personal stress triggers and responses

  • Recognise early warning signs that stress may be becoming difficult to sustain

  • Explore practical strategies for managing stress at work, including healthy boundaries

  • Understand your window of tolerance and how it affects your response to pressure

  • Learn practical techniques for regulating stress in the moment


3. Building Emotional Intelligence:

  • Recognise emotional triggers and develop greater emotional self-awareness

  • Learn how to regulate emotions and respond effectively under pressure

  • Strengthen empathy and communication skills

  • Build more constructive relationships with others

4. Adapting to Change:

  • Develop adaptive thinking and greater comfort with uncertainty

  • Build cognitive flexibility and learn to reframe unhelpful thought patterns

  • Develop a growth mindset and learn constructively from setbacks

  • Identify practical strategies for navigating change

5. Social Connection:

  • Understand the role of social connection and support in resilience

  • Recognise when and how to seek support

  • Develop strategies for offering effective support to others

  • Navigate challenges more collaboratively


Outcomes

Participants will leave with:

  • A stronger understanding of resilience and the factors that influence it

  • Greater awareness of their own responses to stress and pressure

  • Practical strategies for managing stress and regulating emotions

  • Skills to adapt more effectively to change, uncertainty and setbacks

  • Healthier approaches to boundaries, recovery and sustainable performance

  • Greater confidence in drawing on and contributing to supportive relationships


What people say..

“Chris was very accommodating and welcoming. He asked the right questions and sparked insightful conversations, he made the team comfortable in sharing their own experiences.”
— Participant at Leighton
“Chris was really personable and engaging, putting everyone at ease which I think encouraged some less out spoken members to share. ”
— Outlook Creative

Get in touch

To book this solution for your organisation, please contact us

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