Resilience research and practice

Boing Boing provides opportunities to learn about resilience. We run regular Resilience Forums, produce books and other materials and offer training and talks on resilient approaches to life’s challenges.  Working with children, young people, families and adults exposed to social disadvantage is at the heart of our work.

We use resilience research and practice to find ways of helping people having particularly tough times (and ourselves) because it is a source of very useful knowledge about how individuals overcome such times.

While there are loads of academic articles and books on resilience, not enough tell us how to go about using this knowledge to help children, young people and adults to bounce up against the odds.

That’s why we have been developing approaches, like Resilient Therapy (RT), for anyone to use.

We work with a mixed bag of people – academics, parents, practitioners and service users - who find the idea of resilience useful in our lives and in our work. Professor Angie Hart loosely leads the group from two bases at the University of Brighton, School of Nursing and Midwifery and CUPP, and from the Community Interest Company she has set up with Kim Aumann. We’re quite a dynamic group and our membership is growing.

The majority of our work is with children, young people and families and those involved in supporting them. However, the more we disseminate our ideas, the more we find adult practitioners wanting information about how to make resilient moves to tackle real life situations too.