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Resilience

Resilience. April 2014 S A M Remington. Objectives for session. Why is resilience important now What it is and means to us as individuals Key components How to enhance personal resilience Helping others develop resilience Information sources. Why now-external reasons.

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Resilience

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  1. Resilience April 2014 S A M Remington

  2. Objectives for session • Why is resilience important now • What it is and means to us as individuals • Key components • How to enhance personal resilience • Helping others develop resilience • Information sources

  3. Why now-external reasons • Rapid pace of change- life and medicine • Radical changes to how care is given • Changing and challenging employment market • Increasing public scrutiny of care • Revalidation • Training changes • Recognition of resilience skills as important

  4. Why Now- internal • Personal employment changes • Dealing with disappointment • Change in personal circumstances • Health concerns • Dealing with disappointment • Preparation better than cure

  5. Transition theories – why now careers • Nicholson1990 cyclical:Preparation-anticipate Encounter-understand Adjustment-cope Stabilisation-settled Hall 2005 goal set, objective success, subjective success(recognition by self),identity change and new goals

  6. Organisations with resilience programmes • US Army • Bernados • Cabinet office: anticipation, assessment, preparation,prevention response ,recovery

  7. Resilience How would YOU define resilience?

  8. Definition • The Latin derivative, • ‘resiliens’ • …the pliant or elastic quality of a substance. • …a capacity to absorb negative conditions, integrate them in meaningful ways, and move forward.

  9. Resilience a.k.a…

  10. Resilient personalities • Who would describe as resilient? (Friend, relative, or celebrity!) • What characteristics/qualities do they have which make them resilient?

  11. Examples • Martine Wright Nelson Madonna • 7/7 survivor Mandela

  12. Key Characteristics • Clear Focus-specific goals • Self knowledge • Positive response to negative events-flexibility • Learn from previous events • Clear driving values • Reflective- re-evaluating

  13. What about you A few exercises

  14. Exercise • Mark each characteristic on wheel out of 10 for yourself • Discuss –which is highest why? - which is lowest?how can you improve it - last time you overcame a problem which characteristic got you through

  15. Discuss • Are most of your misfortunes in life due to a. Mistakes you’ve made? b. Bad luck? • Do you; • Like to plan ahead, feeling confident that will ensure things work out • Feel it’s better not to plan too much, as things might change anyway • Success is primarily due to • Hard work • Luck & being in the right place at the right time

  16. So, which are you? • If you tended towards (a) each time • You have a higher INTERNAL • locus of control • If you tended towards (b)each time • You have a higher EXTERNAL • locus of control

  17. Locus of Control • A personality trait which can affect resilience levels. • Developed by Julian Rotter in 1954: • The extent to which individuals believe they • can control events which affect them. • Or • The control you feel you have over • the environment around you. • Everyone sits on a continuum between having • internal or external locus of control.

  18. • Salary/bonuses • Job security • Approval/praise/pleasing others • Promotion • A prize

  19. Who do you want in your boat

  20. Support • Empathy not sympathy • Compassion • Supportive challenge • Non judgemental • Independent • Flexible • High E-IQ

  21. Other exercises • Nicholson Mcbride RQ • I-resilience • Skills • Values • Thinking /acting Questionnaires • Mindfullness-stress anxiety reduction • Reflection on previous challenges over come • Future planning

  22. “A PESSIMIST sees the DIFFICULTY in every OPPORTUNITY, an OPTIMIST sees the OPPORTUNITY in every DIFFICULTY.” Winston Churchill

  23. Cognitive bias modification • Rainybrainsunnybrain.com- optimism test and then ability to train to more optimistic approach

  24. Questionnaires • Testyourrq.com-optimism,solution orientation individual accountability ,openess and flexibilty,managing stress and anxiety • I resilience-robertsoncooper.com-confidence,purposefullness,socialsupport,adaptability

  25. Future planning • SWOT • ACTION PLAN – challenging –negative self view and really using SMART objectives -Specific enough? Measurable? Attainable-enough stretch? Relevant-reinforce positive? Time-how limited • Long Term goals

  26. How to support Trainees • Positive supportive • Mentors • Coaching • Proactive skill development

  27. Resources • Books- Resilience,NLP workbooks,Positive Psychology,Mindfullness • Questionnaires • Career websites-NHS,BMA ,Deanery

  28. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” Nelson Mandela

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