Primary Certificate in Developing Psychological Resilience: A Coaching Perspective

CONTENT
This intensive two-day course based workshop covers the theory and practice of developing psychological resilience. Participants will have the opportunity to practise skills and techniques in small group work. Topics include essential characteristics of a resilient personality, managing hardship, steering through daily difficulties, bouncing back from adversity, reaching out to new opportunities, developing resilience, building strengths rather than repairing weaknesses, distinguishing between resilience inducing beliefs (RIBs)
and resilience undermining beliefs (RUBs). Handouts and a manual are provided. For the purposes of skills training, participants should be prepared to discuss one problem in small group work. Suitable for coaches, managers, personnel staff, trainers and counsellors. Normal rules of confidentiality apply.

OBJECTIVES

• Examine some of the characteristics associated with resilience
  
• Consider some of the myths of resilience
  
• Identify some of the ideas that undermine resilience building
  
• Discuss the views of various writers on resilience
  
• Pinpoint areas where a poor coping response prevails
  
• Identify core beliefs which are a source of psychological vulnerability