Building Resilience

In this course, psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt helps you build mindsets, skills, and strategies to build your resilience, helping you to turn challenges into opportunities for growth, transformation, and innovation. Emily first focuses on mindsets to become more resilient, developing skills to make meaning out of challenges and setbacks and develop a growth mindset amongst disruption. She then guides you on ways to build emotional agility in order to become more resilient, with strategies to reframe challenging thoughts, face difficult truths, and build your emotional fitness. Plus, learn about an essential element of resilience—tapping into the relationships and resources around you. Finally, Emily shows you how to create a personalized resilience plan to meet current and future challenges while building your resilience.

Learning objectives
Define resilience and its importance in facing lifes challenges.
Explain the significance of self-compassion and how it contributes to resilience.
Identify and analyze personal emotional patterns that affect resilience.
Develop strategies to build mental agility and adaptability.
Create a plan to acknowledge and process grief and loss in various aspects of life.
Distinguish between control and agency, and describe their roles in resilience.
Formulate goals using the purpose, process, and progress method.
Practice reframing negative thoughts to enhance a resilient mindset.
Implement stress management techniques such as mindfulness, physical activity, and journaling.
Recognize the importance of vulnerability and develop strategies to practice it in daily life.