Building Everyday Resilience, Part 1

Day one at a health and wellbeing conference for the education community. The Keynote Speaker, Dr. Michael Ungar, takes the stage. 60 minutes later, I leave the room with this major takeaway: Much of the dialogue around resilience, including all those inspirational quotes we all love to share and repost, only tell part of the story. They speak to the individual's self-efficacy, but ignore all the spheres of influence that help shape that  person. 
There are at  least four layers between stimulus and response. At the core, there is the self. Surrounding the individual, in a series of concentric and permeable circles, are all the supports a person has in their life: skills and knowledge acquired up to that point, supportive relationships, and previous experiences. 

A peek into my notebook - scribbles from the keynote address at a health and wellbeing conference.

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Resilience is not an individual endeavour, it is a team effort.