Resilience and Wellbeing

About this course

This one day workshop will teach you how to build resilience. You'll learn strategies focused on being adaptable and flexible to challenging situations. You will also gain a clear awareness of your emotional state and how you can maintain motivation and positivity in your life.

Additional Information: Key Topics:
The key topics for this course are:
- What is resilience? Characteristics of resilience
- Cultivating resilience
- Physiology and psychology of challenging situations
- Strategies for being resilient
- Mindfulness and positive psychology
- Emotional Intelligence
- Resilience in the face of organisational change
- Resilience in the face of conflict
- Resilience in the face of constructive feedback
- Resilience in the face of the media and community “spotlight”
- Practical application of techniques during unpredictable and unplanned challenging situations
- Organisational support and frameworks (including ACT Government Respect, Equity and Diversity (RED) Framework and APS equivalent guidelines)

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the session learners will be able to:
- Define resilience
- Describe the physiological and psychological changes that happen during times of stress
- Identify and apply strategies for cultivating resilience in the context of change, conflict, and when receiving feedback
- Outline steps to increase resilience during unpredictable and unplanned challenging situations
- Identify where to get support and assistance.