Soft skills on psychological resilience (

1. Workers with Disabilities–
Unit 3
RESILIENCE

2. What you will learn
in Unit 3
- Dealing with setbacks
- Viewing change as a natural part of
life
- Focusing on positive events
- Goal setting and obstacle
overcoming

3. Resilience
Relationships
Our human contact and relationships with others give us a sense of belonging to a group, receiving and providing support
and feeling that we are not alone in difficult times.
Self-confidence/Competence Recognition
Belief in self and personal sources of strength helps people recover from difficulties more quickly and effectively.
Sources of support
Recognition and awareness that there are sources of support (people and situations) in our lives during difficult life
circumstances.
Responsibility/Active participation
Feeling that we take responsibility for actions helps us to gain a sense of control over things and maintain our calm.
Values/expectations
Awareness and a deeper understanding of the values we hold helps us to prioritise, set goals and pursue their realisation.
Goals
Redefining and prioritizing our goals in the context of new circumstances and based on our new emerging needs helps the
individual to continue to derive satisfaction and give meaning to their life.
Optimism
A sense of hope/optimism is related to building resilience and the expectation that things will "work out".

4. Resilience
• More calm, secure, well-adjusted and low in
anxiety.
• Preferred in most professions because they
have more control over their emotions at work.
• More easily distracted from their work, by
deadlines, personal situations, and pressure.
• More likely to focus on the obstacles along the
way and lose focus on their long-term goals.

5. What is a stress reaction
- Any changes around us mean stress
- Stress affects behaviour, but most importantly, health
- Not many things in life are certain 🡪 stress is
unavoidable
- Employing coping strategies is a vital skill

7. Is all stress bad?

8. So what can we
do?

9. Resilience: The tree of my life
- Roots: The people who have helped them the most, loved them and influenced
them positively in life or taught them useful things; favourite places/things/songs.
- The ground: it is the now of their life. Where they live and some of the activities
they have in their daily life.
- The core: skills, abilities in physical and social activities.
- The branches: Their hopes, dreams and desires that they have for the direction
of their life and for others, children, youth and adults and for their community. How
have they managed to hold on to these hopes (perhaps under difficult
circumstances)?
- Leaves: The people (living or dead) who are important to their life. How have
they influenced it?
- The fruits: gifts they have received and given, gifts not only material but also
emotional gifts, achievements, etc.
- Flowers: What makes them special, their strengths.
- Thorns: Challenges, threats and difficulties in life

10. Exercise: Goal setting

11. Exercise: 3 good things
• Think back over your day and remember three good things that happened - things that
went well, that you enjoyed or were grateful for. These can be small (e.g. a delicious
sandwich or a child smiling on the bus) or of bigger importance for you.
• For each thing you're grateful for, write down why it happened and why you feel good
about it.

12. Exercise: 3 good things – objectives
• Practicing to focus on the mindset of what went well, rather on what did not
• Shifting focus away from negative events
• Increasing hope, optimism, and resilience

13. Thank you!