Course: Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive at Work

We aren’t born with a burning sense of purpose. We make meaning and purpose by experimenting in our lives. Carol Ryff and colleagues at Wisconsin-Madison University have been working on …

Complex problems don’t get solved in one go, which is why trying things out and learning through action is often the best way to build our resilience. One of the …

Thank you for participating in Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive. We hope you enjoyed this course and found these learning materials stimulating and engaging. Don’t forget This course has …

The big question we set out to answer at the beginning of this course was: how can we learn to be more resilient in both our personal and professional lives? …

Our personal and professional lives depend on the vitality of our relationships, which, in turn, help build our everyday resilience. In the first week of this course we discovered that …

Helping others is a natural instinct wired into our brain. However, in addition to having compassion for others, we also need to show compassion towards ourselves. The human brain has …

Mindfulness isn’t just something you do at home or in a class; once you know how, you can practise mindfulness any time, anywhere. Formal meditation practice can involve sitting, lying …

Sleep is the cornerstone of health. It allows us to regenerate both physically and mentally, yet most of us don’t get nearly enough of it. According to leading neuroscientist and …

Good communication is interactive, and listening is a key part of this exchange. Along with problem-solving skills, which we’ve just looked at, communication skills also rank highly on the list …

Mindfulness isn’t about stopping your thoughts, but about finding new ways of being with them. In the last few steps we’ve focused on skills like problem solving and communication that …

Next week, we’ll explore ways to develop more systematic or ecological approaches to resilience not only in our own lives and communities, but also in organisations and the workplace. Before …

The ability to creatively solve problems as they occur is one of the most sought-after skills in contemporary workplaces. According to a recent report, creativity, followed by persuasion, collaboration, adaptability …

Building an ecology of resilience means working with others to ensure that we reinforce one another’s capacity for thriving. We’ve already talked about the personal and social dimensions of resilience …

Resilience arises from a complex set of individual and social factors. So what have we learnt so far? Resilience is a process we work towards, not a defined permanent state. …

Popular culture tells us heroes are special, but resilience research tells us there are plenty of everyday heroes. Luke Skywalker, the original hero of the Star Wars films, exemplifies what’s …