Resilience
Resilience is something everyone can grow in over the course of their lives. It's your ability to stand up to, recover from, and adapt to episodic challenges and major disruptions in your life. Strengthening resilience requires developing a mental culture of preparedness, resourcefulness, and self-compassion in the face of adversity. Building greater resilience can help you more effectively cope with challenges at work and home, lead more effectively in the workplace and even improve your overall health.
At Pepperdine, our hope is to offer resources to help you grow in multiple areas of your life. Below, we have listed a few resources that we hope can help you on your resilience growth journey.
Resilience in the Workplace
While challenges are always present in the workplace, the pandemic has presented unique challenges to all employees, no matter what your title and responsibilities.
- Building Resilience At Work and Within Your Teams
- Strategies of Mental Agility and Compassion
- Stress Mitigation and Resilience Development
- 10 Tips to Develop Greater Resilience in the Workplace
- Becoming Marathon Strong - Pathways Used by Endurance Runners
Personal Resilience
Resilience is dynamic, meaning there are science-backed methods we can learn and implement in our personal lives to help us respond to challenges and bounce-back when life gets hard.
- American Psychological Association's roadmap for adapting to life-changing situations
- Overcoming and Growing From Setbacks
- Factors and Strategies of Resilient People
- Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience
Parenting Resilience
Parenting is hard in ordinary times, but the past year has made the task of raising kids and being a parent even more challenging. However, with a resilience-focused approach, positive changes can occur no matter where you and your family are on the resilience path.
- Raising Resilient Children: An American Psychological Association resource
- Becoming a More Resilient Parent
- Coping Strategies for Managing the Challenges of Parenthood
Resilience in Crisis
Models of Resilience Articles
- Resilience Doughnut
- An evidence-based model of resilience that offers individuals and parents a model to operationalize and develop a game-plan on improving specific factors known to increase resilience.