Recently, I have been preoccupied with resilience. What can we do to foster our own resilience and that of others? I started by thinking ‘so what does being resilient mean?’
When looking at nature, trees are resilient, bending beneath a heavy load of wind or snow without breaking. Resilience in people signifies more or less the same thing; the ability to withstand stress or distress without breaking beneath it, physically or emotionally.
We want the children and families we work with to bounce back and to cope better with life’s challenges. It’s the same for our staff, an absolute prerequisite to be able to withstand stress and distress, and then come back to work the next day. The brain is an incredible organ but it kicks in, sometimes unhelpfully, when we are under stress. The flight, fight or freeze response.
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