What would you describe as fuel for resilience? What rejuvenates you and gives you energy? In contrast, what depletes you? Are you currently full or trying to run on empty?
This session builds on the regular habits for resilience that we focused on last time. This time we will explore activities and attitudes that fill us up with motivation to get back into the ring, that help to keep us flexible and able to recover quickly after times of great pressure. This will include your own personal actions but also some tried and proven activities.
Pressure can come from at least three different sources – firstly, unpredictable natural disasters, 
secondly, personal challenges or thirdly, living in an oppressive system. Often we don’t know that a time of pressure is looming. It can build up surreptitiously, like water that warms up slowly, or it can strike like unexpected lightning. Some people experience pressure from all areas at the same time. If we are running on empty when pressure hits, it will make it more difficult for us to recover with resilience. So let’s make filling up fuel for resilience a way of life and not an afterthought.
This is one of the sessions in our offering “Training resilience”. More details here. We will be developing our resilience every second Wednesday from 22 June onwards at 19:30 – 20:45 online. Every session will focus on a different aspect that affects our resilience at a cost of R100. As a result, you can decide what you need and when and whether you would like another session. Take the time to apply your learnings, implement change and control the amount of new information you expose yourself to. Every month our offering may change slightly. Do check in regularly to see what’s been adjusted.
Email contact@tt-tt.co.za to book your place by 16:00 on 1 August 2023.
Do you find yourself reacting rather than responding when you are under pressure? How can we train ourselves to respond with resilience? What does responding with resilience practically look like? Can we be more prepared?
reactions to the ideal resilient response and evaluate our own areas of growth. This will include exploring how to change our reactions and break the automatic links to previous experiences. This session will help develop your self-awareness and strengthen your emotional intelligence.
the connection between our nervous system and resilience? How does our nervous system react when we are under pressure? Pressure can come from different sources – unpredictable natural disasters, personal challenges or living in an oppressive system. Recent natural disasters include the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the floods in many parts of South Africa. At some stage we will all experience the personal challenges of illness, accidents, financial constraints, work stress, relational strain and death of a loved one. Discrimination, incompetence, neglect, conflicts or violence in a system will prevent the flourishing of all. Some people experience pressure from all areas at the same time. Can we be more prepared?
resilience? This would help us to respond intentionally and creatively rather than reacting automatically. We would have access to more areas in our brains even when we find ourselves under pressure.
Resilience is about our ability to recover more than our ability to endure. Not everyone is born resilient, it is like a muscle that we can strengthen, a skill that we can develop. Should we then be training for resilience?