What is andResilience?
andResilience puts the importance of building Resilience at the centre of the “Mental Health” narrative and mindset. It encourages everyone – schools businesses, individuals – to ensure that building resilience becomes an integral part of their approach to addressing and managing Mental Health challenges.
What do we mean by the word “Resilience”?
Whilst life’s challenges can be overwhelming resilience is definitely not just about ‘toughing it out’. Resilience is about developing the mindset, tools, and habits that allow you to overcome obstacles, and thrive, no matter what life throws your way. It’s an ability to adapt and cope effectively, in the face of stress, trauma and mental health adversity.
Why should you adopt andResilience?
andResilience creates an environment where building resilience becomes a mainstream part of the day to day, a major step on the journey to reducing the frequency and severity of future mental health challenges. In particular andResilience:
- Creates a positive, proactive and preventative mindset
- Offers immediate access to multiple proven resilience building strategies
- Is easy to adopt
How can schools, businesses and individuals adopt andResilience?
Incorporating andResilience into your approach to mental health and wellbeing involves two simple steps:
Committing to Integrate “Resilience” into the everyday mental health, well-being narrative and mindset.
This can be achieved by always using the phrase “Mental Health and Resilience” and/or “Wellbeing and Resilience” as opposed to just “Mental Health” and/or “Wellbeing”. This commitment is particularly relevant and powerful for schools and businesses but can also be adopted by individuals wanting to take a more pre-emptive and pro-active approach to building their personal mental and emotional resilience.
Seeking out and adopting Resilience Best Practices.
Using and contributing to the andResilience Best Practice Gateway, users can search for and select proven resilience building tactics, strategies and programmes to best suit their needs. These can be used to supplement and enhance existing mental health activities.
