Resilience is the ability to cope positively with life. In this workshop I teach key concepts of resilience, a set of skills that can be taught, learned and mastered by anyone willing to practice.

1. Build Your Resilient Lifestyle
Staying Calm in Body, Mind and Spirit
Emily Felt, MPP, CAPP
MAY 15, 2020
BE. SERVE. THRIVE.

2. Build Your Resilient Lifestyle
Staying Calm in Body, Mind and Spirit
Emily Felt, MPP, CAPP
MAY 15, 2020
BE. SERVE. THRIVE.

3. Welcome
What brought you here today?
What are you struggling with?

4. “Adaptation in the face of adversity, trauma, threats or stress.”
American Psychological Association
“The ability to mentally or emotionally cope with stressors
and return quickly to pre-stress status.”
Terte & Stephens, 2014
“The ability to cope with whatever life brings using resources, strengths
and other positive capacities and psychological capital.”
Positive Psychology Definition
What is Resilience?

5. Humans are one of the most resilient species on the planet.
Scientific research shows that most of us will experience hardship
and get through it. We’re wired to do it.
Tegel & Helsinki, 2011
Most people are already resilient.
But...the problem is suffering while we go through this experience.

6. Certain skills can speed up our adaptive processes and help
us function more smoothly during adversity. We can
“practice” being resilient and “strengthen our muscles”.
Frederickson, 2002
In a study, resilience was highly correlated with
gratitude, hope, optimism and spirituality...
Shick, Tayler and Goffstein 2010
Also, the practice of mindfulness and meditation.
Daniel, 2017
Characteristics of Resilient People

7. Why don’t we want it?
The Coronavirus is an opportunity.
In this crisis, our brains are working against us.
Unless we’ve already been practicing own
“resilience skills” prior to the hardship,
we’re unprepared.

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“Everything is physical, mental and spiritual”.
David R. Hawkins
Staying calm and balanced in

9. Self-care of the body
Treat unease in the body with care.
A great strategy is to go straight to the basics:
Eat Drink
Water
Bathe Move Sleep Rest
Avoid
Alcohol,
Caffeine,
& Sugar
How are you taking care of your body right now?

10. “Most of us would never leave the house without getting properly
dressed and combing our hair in the morning, but we don’t think
twice about leaving in the morning with a mental state that is
completely out of order.”
Hugh Prather (How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy)
Self-Compassion of the Mind

11. The purpose of the mind is to plan and analyze information, to construct
the world around us and our stories, and to protect the sense of self (ego).
When the mind is injured, the treatment is self-compassion.
Self-Compassion of the Mind
GO TO STRATEGY:
GO TO STRATEGY:
• Reduce cognitive load (work less, fewer tasks)
• Reduce information intake (news, etc.)
• Give the mind a simple task (focus on the breath)
• Ignore thoughts or re-frame
• Intentionally plant positive emotions (support brain function)
• Gratitude journal, family album, loving kindness meditation...

12. “Look not without but within, for that is
where the seat of true happiness lies.”
Iyengar
Self-Awareness of the Spirit

13. Self-Awareness of the Spirit
Spirit serves us to construct meaning and life purpose.
Approach spiritual problems with self-awareness.
GO TO STRATEGY:
GO TO STRATEGY:
Works with aversions, attachments and beliefs, what
pulls us out of the happiness within is aversions and
attachments. Projecting our happiness outside of
ourselves. Letting go, surrender, tap into a higher power.
Space
Space
Self-honesty
Self-honesty
Self-trust
Self-trust
Patience
Patience

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It takes all three
to find balance.

15. Which of the three is out of balance for you in your lifestyle?
What can you do to bring it back into balance?
Report back two “go-to strategies” for the group.
Report back two “go-to strategies” for the group.
Practical Exercise

16. “We set the intention to surrender what’s not ours to
handle and be given the resources to handle what is.”
Guided Meditation

17. Thank You!
Emily Felt, MPP, CAPP
BE. SERVE. THRIVE.