Emotional resilience is the ability to cope with life’s challenges and ups and downs. Resilience does not eliminate stress or erase life’s difficulties, but allows you to tackle or accept problems, live through adversity and move on with life.

Suitable for the general public health and social care practitioners and professionals

This 3 hour training session provided by Every Life Matters aims to:

• Enhances delegates’ emotional literacy
• Challenges stigma around emotional distress and tackles barriers to help-seeking
• Uses ‘watercourse analogy’ to help delegates understand different levels of distress
• Shares effective self-help strategies suitable for different levels of distress
• Uses the ‘sunflower analogy’ to help delegates understand wellbeing and resilience
• Shares practical ways to develop and maintain emotional wellbeing and promotes the importance of this
• Equips delegates to have a greater emotional literacy and know how to enhance their resilience (not mental toughness)
• Equips delegates with positive ways to cope with stress or emotional distress, to develop a personal plan to build their wellbeing and know where to access further support if they ever need help in the future
• Equips the delegate with the knowledge of how to use StayingSafe.net to make their own Safety Plan

Learning is through a mixture of presentation, discussion and small groupwork.

This online session last 3 hrs and is delivered via zoom by dedicated and experienced trainers. Participants also receive post course manual including a signposting resource and a certificate of participation.