e-Learning “Personal Resilience in an Hour”

 

It’s arrived….

In Equilibrium’s first e-Learning course

 

Personal Resilience in an hour

 

Your tutor for this engaging one hour distance learning course will be Dr Chris Johnstone. Chris is a specialist in the psychology of resilience and positive change. His personal experience of being a junior doctor in the late 1980’s who had suffered a burnout reaction to the over 100 hour working weeks expected of him, resulted in him becoming a leading figure in the campaign to improve junior doctors’ working conditions. After six years and ten court hearings he eventually won his challenge to the legal basis of his contract. This life experience of bringing about positive change from a seemingly impossible position sparked a passion for helping others to facilitate change and gain personal power.

“Dr Chris is a good human being and doesn’t talk down to you or make you feel you’re wrong”

“He delivers a fantastic workshop”

During this one hour e-Learning course, Chris Johnstone leads you through seven strategies with explanations, examples and exercises included at each stage. By the end of the course you will be able to put these strategies together to form your own personal resilience toolkit. The course is engaging with cartoon illustrations used to great visual effect and inspiring examples which will stay with you for life.

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If you would like to introduce members of your organisation to the”Personal Resilience in an Hour” e-Learning course, please contact us at training@in-equilibrium.co.uk leaving your name and email address and the number of people you wish to give access to.  We will get right back to you with a quotation and further details.

Transcript from the Introductory Video “Personal Resilience in an Hour” by Dr. Chris Johnstone

What we’re really looking at with Resilience Training is a strengthening journey that you can have a beginning point and an end point. And the journey that you travel between those two helps strengthen you, helps equip you with tools that you can use to deal with the bumps, the knocks, and the dips in life.

Strategy four is to develop your resilience toolkit of self-help SSRIs. And if you’re not familiar with any of those terms, you may scratch your head and think, “Now, what’s this one?” So there is a bit of mystery there. Let me explain. And I’m going to do this in three parts, but first I’m going to look at the idea of a resilience toolkit, then I’m going to be looking at the idea of the self-help SSRI, and then bringing those two together, going to be looking at how you develop your personal resilience toolkit of self-help SSRIs.

So let’s start with the idea of a Resilience Toolkit. All the strategies that we’ve been looking at so far are tools. They are things you use that help you achieve a purpose. So the purpose is strengthening resilience. These are things that we can use, the strategies that we can use. Now, imagine trying to put up some bookshelves without a screwdriver or without screws, that you can feel defeated. And it’s a similar way that when you face an adversity, a challenge, an obstacle that you can’t find a way through, you can feel defeated, you can feel your mood dip, your enthusiasm, your confidence dip.

But with the right tools, you may be able to find a way through. The finding your way through obstacles, finding your way of climbing out of a pit can be much easier if you have some good tools to help you.

The letters SSRI are commonly associated with antidepressants. The most commonly prescribed antidepressants being a group called the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors. But just really to emphasize that choices we make and actions we take also have antidepressant effects. I’d like to introduce the idea of the self-help SSRI and to use each of those letters to stand for a different category, a different area within your resilience toolkit. So I use those letters, SSRI, to stand for Strategies, Strengths, Resources, and Insights.      

Let’s look at each of those in turn. Just think of these as four different directions to look in. First of all, I’m looking at what are strategies or things that I can do. Strengths is like I’m looking more inside and say. “What can I draw upon inside myself?” With resources, I’m looking more outside and I’m saying, “Where can I turn, where can I seek support, where can I seek something that will help me?” And then insights, I’m just thinking of if I look at things this way, I might have one way of looking but I can also look at things this way or I can look at things this way. An insight is a different way of looking, a different perspective, like a piece of wisdom that helps you move forward.      

So I want to introduce a very practical way of drawing out your self-help SSRIs to identify the tools already available to you. And the way to do that is to think back to a time when you were facing something difficult but you got through in a way that you now feel pleased about. So what was that? Just think of a time and then ask yourself, “How did you do that? How did you get through that difficult time?” and in particular, looking at these four different areas, looking for – were there any strategies you used, were there a [sic] particular steps that you took that you found helpful, were there strengths that you drew upon and that really helped you get through? Were there strengths that you recognized inside yourself that helped you through that difficult situation? Were there resources that you turned to? Resources that really made the difference, perhaps people, perhaps places, perhaps even pets? Were there insights that guided you, perspectives you took that you found helpful?           

So you can use this as a way of identifying and building up your toolkit that if you recognize what you’re already doing, the resilience strategies, strengths, resources, and insights already available to you. This gives you a starting point that you can review your current resilience tools and look at what are the ones you find most helpful as a way of making sure that you have greater access to those. But what we’re doing with resilience training is that we’re adding to those. We’re looking at how you grow, cultivate, develop the tools you have, but also how you add to those as a way of enhancing your resilience toolkit.