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Resilience Resources

Here’s some recommendations and suggestions if you’d like to find out more about resilience training, or to develop yourself as a Resilience Practitioner.

Recommended Resilience Books

Martin Seligman, Flourish (London, Nicholas Brealey, 2011) This is a great introduction to positive psychology, positive education and resilience training.

Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté, The Resilience Factor, (New York, 
Broadway Books, 2002). This is a more in-depth introduction to the strategies taught in the Penn Resilience Program. It is strong on cognitive strategies, particularly the ABC and Real-time resilience.

Chris Johnstone, Seven Ways to Build Resilience, Robinson London, 2019. This came out in April 2019, and offers a readable introduction to resilience, together with a range of evidence-based and evidence-informed practical strategies.

Lucy Hone, Resilience Grieving (New York, The Experiment Publishing, 
2017). 
 Dr Lucy Hone, who trained in Positive Psychology with Martin Seligman and Karen Reivich at the University of Pennsylvania, describes hard earned lessons about grieving and resilience following the devastating earthquakes in her home city of Wellington, New Zealand and the tragic death of her daughter Abi.

Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy, Resilience (Headline Business Plus, London, 2012). This gives a broad-ranging and well-researched overview of resilience, extending beyond the personal to include social and community resilience. It illustrates key elements of resilience practice with engaging real-life stories.

Resilience Web Resources

Boing Boing at https://www.boingboing.org.uk – an inspiring website with lots of resources on resilience for young people, developed by the team at the University of Sussex.

The Resilience Toolkit at https://www.seemescotland.org/media/8155/resiliance-toolkit.pdf – produced by Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS, this pdf toolkit for young people is a useful resource.

University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center at https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu – see particularly their research sections on resilience with children and young adults, and the information about the Penn resilience program.

Resilience Courses

College Of Wellbeing .com has a range of resilience online courses, including the short video-based Personal Resilience in an Hour (which has students from over 55 countries) to the more in-depth Resilience Practitioner Training.

ResilienceForTherapists.com offers a seven-module online resilience training for counsellors and therapists run by Chris Johnstone and Jane Sanders.

ResilienceForDoctors.com offers a seven-module online resilience training for medical doctors run by Chris Johnstone and Simon Wade.

Resilience References

For the references from Chris Johnstone’s book Seven Ways To Build Resilience see this page.

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Recommended courses

Seven Ways to Build Resilience – a video-based on-demand course featuring about two hours of video in short episodes that introduce core themes and practices from Chris Johnstone’s book Seven Ways to Build Resilience.

Coaching for Wellbeing with Motivational Interviewing – a series of six webinars accompanied by an online resource featuring additional audio and video examples of motivational interviewing in practice, and a discussion forum. The course is introduced by a series of free videos, plus a free webinar on May 20th. The course starts on June 3rd.

Resilience Practitioner Training online course starts Oct 27th 2020, though it is also possible to join a recorded version of the course at any time. It features eight live or recorded webinars and interactive online resource exploring practices, skills and insights that help us deal with, be strengthened by, and/or recover from difficult times. You can watch a recording of our free Resilience Training webinar introducing the course and a five-minute You-Tube video at this link,

The Happiness Training Plan – an hour-long downloadable audiobook available for £10

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Positive Psychology Foundations online course with Chris Johnstone and Miriam Akhtar starts Jan 27th 2021, featuring eight live webinars and interactive online resource exploring practices, sills and insights that help us cultivate wellbeing in ourselves and other people. It is also possible to join the recorded version of the course at any point this year.

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