Emotional Resilience

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 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 our dedicated and experienced trainers. Participants also receive post course manual including a signposting resource and a certificate of participation.

What our participants had to say:

"The course leaders kept a good pace and were as always, engaging, clear and good to listen to. It is obvious they have a wealth of knowledge to share"

"It was a good course, good contents and good facilitation"

"Lovely and knowledgeable presenters, made the group feel welcome and safe"

If you have any questions about the course and its content please contact us at training@every-life-matters.org.uk

This training is available only to people who live or work in Cumbria.

Every Life Matters is a Cumbrian Suicide Prevention and Suicide Bereavement Support Charity. We deliver a wide range of suicide prevention, self-harm and mental health training across the county, support Suicide Safer Community projects and provide support to people and organisations bereaved and affected by suicide. Find out more at www.every-life-matters.org.uk