Positive feelings contribute to greater resilience in various ways. Whereas negative emotions tend to narrow attention to the source of the negative feelings, positive emotions do the reverse, broadening people’s ideas about options for actions, they build hope and other personal resources that support resilience.
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I began to understand the power of Imagine that first day – how projects in Rotherham and Huddersfield were helping restore community practice and relations, in two towns whose souls had been blighted in recent years through xenophobia. Imagine seeks to connect universities and their local communities through collaborative research. It completely ushers away the traditional notion of the haughty ivory tower doing research on others.
I was inspired by the Resilience Tree as a metaphor for resilience. I was also hooked into the idea of how a tree, leaves and fruit could be utilised as a communication tool for describing resilience and a method for gaining insights from people about their own resilience, resilient practice, resilience of others and what they might do differently given the opportunity.
The Blackpool model helps people think through how to work individually with a child, through their family, at school and in the community to enhance resilience. They have turned this into a planning tool to ask what they are doing with individual pupils, targeted pupils, and universal (all).
At our HeadStart national event in May, Blackpool HeadStart Partnership shared their resilience model which helps explore potential resources available for young people to build their resilience individually, within their family, school and community.
Understanding and implementing system change in child mental health – a conversation between Professor Angie Hart and Professor Philip Haynes, Brighton University. They discuss system change and what system change might look like in relation to developing children’s resilience.
This documentary about the project includes footage from the 10 weekly resilience-building arts workshops, the end of project exhibition showcasing the young people’s art work, and interviews and artists statements from the young people experiencing mental health complexities and /or learning difficulties who participated in the workshops.
Simon spoke eloquently of his life, from being born in advance – which had caused cerebral palsy and an inability to use his legs – to his own defiant route to create better than expected outcomes. Simon paid enormous homage to his mother and the huge effort she made in altering her son’s environment so that he had the best chance to succeed.
Beating the odds, and changing the odds, is an inspiring real story and personal view of resilience despite complex adversities by Simon Duncan. This session was recorded so you can watch Simon reflect on what has promoted his resilience.
Bringing different people together, with different skills, interests, knowledge and experience is my day job. Often there are 2 or 3, sometimes a few more and all of them are interested in the same topic. A few weeks ago, I found myself in a room with 30 people: university students, academics, creative professionals, parents, community groups, young people, artists. Together we were looking at the Resilience Framework to see in what ways we could bring it to life.
