Psychological Survival Skills - Building Personal Resilience in the Workplace

Resilience is the ability to weather adversity and has always been a vital resource for humans.  This is perhaps particularly so now, when recent data has shown marked increases in common mental health conditions in adults.  The ability to respond effectively to stress builds resilience, helping people to deal with the demands of organisational life, increasing productivity and improving career outcomes.

By the end of this module you will be able to

• Recognise and categorise the stressors that affect you personally and be able to give examples of how they impact your wellbeing
• Explore and analyse how the brain functions under stress and influence your own behavioural and emotional responses
• Evaluate and select the internal and external resources you need to support you
• Apply structured coping strategies to manage workplace stress and demonstrate effective responses to difficult situations at work

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For professionals looking to strengthen their own personal resilience and use best practise techniques to better manage themselves in the workplace and beyond.

• Different types of stressor, from daily hassles to trauma
• Demands vs resources.  The Yerkes-Dodson curve from inactivity to burnout
• A central exercise analysing a stressful event you experienced
• Building emotional resilience using physiological, cognitive, emotional and behavioural elements
• Limits of resilience