How Does The Resilient Mind Work?

The Resilient Mind is a facilitated game played during lunch hours in the workplace for seven weeks with a group of 10 people. It can also be carried out online in tele conference format. Tailored to train participants to build resilience, participants gain valuable mental health strategies and skills in a safe, non-judgmental and encouraging environment. Minimal work is required on the employer’s part to host a The Resilient Mind workshop.

Who can participate?

Participants can be almost anyone from 13 years of age to elderly . They can be individuals who want to increase their resilience – or that of their loved one. Alternatively, they can be individuals who understand the importance of gaining valuable strategies to help deal with mental wellness challenges that are part of everyday life.

Options to attend The Resilient Mind Workshop

  • The Resilient Mind In-person Groups

    10 individuals will meet in a designated room within the workplace and play the game

  • The Resilient Mind Online Groups

    10 individuals will meet using a telephone conference line and screen sharing technology used for training. Participants can choose to remain anonymous.

  • A combination of the above two platforms

How to Implement The Resilient Mind into Your Organization?

  • Recruit The Resilient Mind facilitator from your organization who undergoes certification or you can choose one of our facilitators
  • Using our PDF and videos,  The Resilient Mind is promoted to your population and participants register online to learn about the two program options and determine their readiness for change
  • Participants are notified of the room location and time
  • The first Resilient Mind game is played for 1.5 hours over 7 weeks
  • 2, 15min e-learning lessons are sent out to participants each week to reinforce weekly training
  • Telephone and text mentors are accessible for participants who require support

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THE RESILIENT MIND:

FOUR WAYS TO BUILD RESILIENCE TO BE YOUR BEST SELF

Stress Free Fantasies:
Many people daydream about living a life absent from stress – I know I once did. But the reality is that stress walks beside us every moment of our lives. Yes, stress takes the occasional nap, but, like an eager-to-play toddler, it eventually awakens. One of the great ironies is that a stress-free life is incompatible with living. Still, it is possible to reduce the spike of pain that comes from stress. In the season of my life when I struggled with stress, I learned two fundamentals principles.

PLAY & LAUGHTER:

George Bernard Shaw said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing”.

This health guide takes a serious look at play and laughter and the importance of including these as important part of our lives. The benefits of incorporating play and laughter into our lives are well documented. Play and laughter are important at all ages of life, contributing to good emotional, mental, and physical health and well-being.

Play at leisure and at work have been shown to improve relationships, team work, creativity, productivity, focus, and stress management. Laughter yields benefits of increased immune system function, decreased stress hormone production, emotional regulation and enhanced learning. This guide provides you with insight into how much you play and laugh, why you may not play and laugh enough, and how to bring play and laughter back into your life in healthy ways. Are you ready to become a FunMaker?

YOUR PSYCHOLOGY:

Most of us have never spent time creating awareness of our psychological functions. Nor have we spent the time learning the skills needed to optimize our mental health. This leaves many of us at increased risk for developing mental health issues. New discoveries about your brain’s neuroplasticity, along with the development of web-based distance education, are bringing new hope by teaching people how to enhance their mental health or overcome a mental illness. Your Psychology is a short manual that will help readers to learn skills developed out of the advanced behavioral sciences and apply them to their lives.

YOUR ENERGY:

Fatigue makes us more susceptible to psychological pain. In a Netherlands workplace study on people who suffer from fatigue, 43% reported experiencing fatigue only, whereas 57% experienced fatigue along with psychological distress. This The Resilient Mind guide will teach participants how unhealthy thoughts, emotions, and desires deplete their energy levels. It will show participants, not only how to avoid these unhealthy behaviors, but also how to replace them with healthier thoughts, emotions, and desires. Written in a practical and relatable style, participants of this The Resilient Mind session will begin implementing new behavioral health principles that can have an immediate effect upon conserving mental and physical energy.

GET MORE HAPPINESS & JOY:

Becoming a student of how to bring more joy and happiness into your life is a conscious choice. It is possible, regardless of your life circumstances and situation, to become such a student and learn the skills needed to bring these things into your life. The first step is to understand what the differences are between happiness and joy:

Happiness is getting a promotion at work. Joy comes from being thankful for your work.

Happiness is a white wine paired with the perfect dessert. Joy is being conscious you have access to food and water at all times

Happiness is irregular; it comes and goes. Joy can come and go, but it’s always a choice

“United Nations’ second annual International Day of Happiness was established to promote the idea that cheerfulness improves mental and physical wellness.”

FRIENDS:

From birth, most people begin forming connections with their mother, father, siblings, and, eventually, friends. Our need for healthy friendships is so strong that behavioral experts are discovering a direct correlation between our lack of true friends and our susceptibility to mental illness. This lack can impact our ability to cope with life’s challenges as well.
The irony is that we live in a knowledge-based society that provides us the resources to develop the skills needed to perform all sorts of complex tasks. But, when it comes to those relationships which are essential to our psychological health, we are often left to muddle through them on our own.

People need people. In this The Resilient Mind session, we train participants on how to become skilled in the 17 attributes of being a good friend and holding onto their relationships. Participants may also develop lasting relationships as they practice their skills with others in the group.

ANGER:

Anger: Is it constructive or destructive?

In a survey, 1000 people were asked what their experience of becoming angry was. Over 86% of those who responded described their experience as being negative. For them, anger resulted in negative outcomes and emotional pain. Although many people experience this emotion as being negative, our anger can actually be very helpful. The critical difference between whether anger is experienced as negative or helpful is determined by whether we express our angry emotions constructively or destructively. In this seven week workshop, participants will learn how to express their anger in constructive ways with others.

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

Events that occur in our childhood can impact our ability to develop and maintain healthy relationships. Furthermore, developing relationships is so integral to our human nature that in the absence of real ones, our mental health can be negatively affected. This guide shows how mental illness can result from relationship fractures. It will train participants to recognize fractures in their early stages and how to avoid deepening them, as well as show how to repair our fractures with significant people, such as our family and friends.

CHANGE

We can do this the easy way – or the hard way. We live in a fast-paced,
ever-changing world. Information is coming at us at a high speed with value placed on immediacy. Change affects everyone and is inevitable. In a shrinking global village, with a rapid influx of information, we are literally inundated with daily change, both close to home and around the world. For most of us, change causes stress. However, we can learn how to effectively manage change and increase our resiliency to it.