Build and maintain your resilience in the workplace

While moderate stress can be a motivating factor, research tells us that high levels of stress can have significant downsides to our health, wellbeing and work performance. Although stress is a fact of life for most of us, we can develop ways to better manage what life throws at us. That way is through building our resilience.

What is Resilience? Resilience is a process of adapting in the face of adversity and bouncing back from difficult experiences. Resilience can protect our wellbeing in the face of stress and thereby helps us perform at our best. The good news is that Resilience can be learnt!

This workshop raises awareness of the relationship between stress, resilience, wellbeing and performance. It includes identification of simple resilience techniques based on positive psychology.

• Impact of stress on performance
• The neuroscience behind stress
• How stress impacts the individual (physically, emotionally, psychologically, behaviourally)
• What is resilience?
• Strategies to build resilience based on positive psychology and the PERMA model

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand how stress affects the brain
• Identify their typical stressors and their physiological and psychological signs of stress
• Apply their understanding of how they respond to stress to develop more helpful responses
• Put in place strategies to better manage stress and develop resilience
• Identify ways to change the way they think, act and feel and respond more effectively to challenges they face