How To Create More Meaning in Your Life
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 …
Course: Professional Resilience: Building Skills to Thrive at Work
Build your way forward
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 …
Further learning with Deakin
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 …
Resilience: answering the big question
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? …
Colleagues, friends and teams
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 …
Compassion for self and others
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 …
Sleep on it: how sleep helps build resilience
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 …
Practising everyday mindfulness
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 …
Listening to communicate
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, self-awareness and self-care
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 …
Reframe your problems
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 …
What’s on for next week?
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 …
Resilience: key ideas and principles
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. …
Community Resilience
Building a community 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 …
Can we learn to be resilient?
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 …
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