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?
Pressure can come from at least three different sources – firstly, unpredictable natural disasters, secondly, personal challenges or thirdly, living in an oppressive system. The affect of the first is often devastating as in the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the floods in many parts of South Africa. At some stage we will all experience the second in personal challenges of illness, accidents, financial constraints, work stress, relational strain and death of a loved one. Many are exposed to the third when discrimination, injustice, incompetence, neglect, conflicts or violence in a system prevent the flourishing of all. Some people experience pressure from all areas at the same time. Consequently, they can feel traumatised. Responding with resilience first involves investigating the links between our previous traumas and how we respond to the current pressure we are under. These memories of trauma have a hold on our emotions, thoughts and bodies.
During this session, we will learn about what a resilient response looks like. Then we will be able to compare our
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.
This is one of the sessions in our offering “Training resilience”. More details here. We will be developing our resilience every Wednesday in March from 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 14 March.
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?
As we approach the end of the year, we would like to close off well. This poetry dialogue encourages self-reflection and explores our feelings around endings and beginnings. In an ideal world, all endings and beginnings are good, but in the real world, we know life is complex. When we suppress our feelings they can go underground. They can affect us subconsciously and internalize stress into our bodies. They could result in inter-personal explosions that seem to come out of nowhere. However, feelings do not need to be buried. The end of the year is an opportunity for reconnecting with ourselves and others, for closure, so that we can start with a clean slate in 2023.
Do you find yourself reacting rather than responding under stress? We will explore our stressors and how to regulate the effect they have on our autonomic nervous systems. Yes, it is possible! This will help us to respond intentionally and creatively rather than reacting automatically to a stressful situation. We will have access to more areas in our brains even when we find ourselves in stressful situations.
Does the idea of doing a whole day 
19:30 – 20:45 we will be facilitating a different topic online. You decide what you need and when and whether you would like another session. You give yourself time to apply your learnings, implement change and control the amount of new information you are exposed to. Every month our offering will change slightly. Do check in regularly to see what’s been adjusted. We may also try out a different day of the week.