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Training course:
Building resilience – 

background & basics


Two hours • In-person or remote • 4-15 participants
Rated 4.6/5 ★★★★½ from 24 recent reviews

About this bitesize training course

Resilience training provides the skills that enable us to manage the everyday challenges of work and personal life.

Statistics show the past couple of years have tested the resilience of most of us. With diagnoses of stress, anxiety and depression increasing, it has never been more important to explore how to create, sustain and maintain inner resilience.

This interactive training session examines how your employees can maximise their personal resilience and support that of others, and provides quick-fix solutions to minimise stress, and maximise wellbeing in the world of work and beyond.

Participants in our Building resilience: background & basics training course will learn to:

  • Understand the importance of resilience

  • Recognise areas of personal resilience that may benefit from building

  • Understand their personal warning signs of lack of resilience

  • Recognise lack of resilience in others

  • Utilise a range of strategies to create and sustain resilience

  • Understand how to manage their body, brain and work

  • Develop a personal toolkit that will support resilience even when time, or inclination is short

Pairing suggestion: for a deeper dive into this essential topic, our Building Mental Resilience training course takes a closer look at the neuroscience of resilience and consciously developing our cognitive reaction to stress. Meanwhile, our Building Physical Resilience training course takes a holistic view of resilience, examining how the body can support a resilient attitude and exploring tips for supporting our mental health through breath, posture, movement, sleep and more.

Key details

  • this bitesize training course is two hours long and packed with powerful ideas

  • designed for groups of 4 – 15

  • delivered by an expert trainer at your workplace, or virtually

  • interactive, with plenty of exercises that get people talking

  • customisable, to connect with your organisation’s values

Reviews for the ‘Building resilience: essentials’ training course

  • “The trainer was very enthusiastic and personable, making the vulnerable nature of the course really effective!”

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  • “Very thought provoking, and enabled me to reflect on my reactions to stress and identify ways to help reduce the impact stress has on my life."

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  • "Really brilliantly led, interactive and relatable - thank you!"

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  • "Brilliant! Very informative and helpful strategies. I personally may not be able to change the way I do everything, but the course has given me guidance on how to try and change things around."

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  • "It was thought provoking and reminded me of ways to cope. I came out realising I was more resilient than I realised I was."

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  • "Very good presenter who adapted the content based on what participants wanted to get out of the session. Interesting slides and content, and useful strategies too."

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  • "The course was very engaging and accessible. The tutor had good positive energy. There was new stuff to learn but it was also useful to revisit familiar concepts and be reminded of their importance."

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  • "The content was great and delivered brilliantly. Clearly full of tips and knowledge - and lots of fun."

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Why book this training session?

🌱 Improve wellbeing & retention

Burnout and overwhelm are among the most common reasons for people to start underperforming or seek roles elsewhere. While attentive line management and reasonable workload planning must always play the central role in mitigating these risks, this course nevertheless provides valuable techniques to gracefully withstand temporary periods of highly-demanding work we all face from time-to-time.

👩🏻‍🦰 Smooth out communication

States of high emotional tension or anxiety disrupt our ability to process information non-judgementally and communicate openly, exacerbating the situation with further crossed wires.

This training course helps to disrupt the stressed/snappy cycle that can lead to wider dysfunction.

📈 Bounce back from setbacks

Sadly, work doesn’t always go according to plan. Our resilience training course helps teach tactics to re-energise and re-focus during and after a period of turbulence, uncertainty or heightened stress.

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