Category: Previous resilience forums

Are we helping people to do better ‘despite’ the challenges they face, or can resilience also mean changing the very nature of the challenges themselves? Are people naturally resilient and, if so, what does that mean for those who are not? Does it matter how we define resilience at all, or can we just get on with helping people instead of arguing over language?

Social and health inequalities go hand in hand: being poorer or coming from a disadvantaged background more generally is associated with inferior physical and mental health; durations of a healthy life and life expectancies are frequently considerably shorter.

This session was an interactive and experiential introduction, giving a felt sense of how a mindfulness practice may bring a wide range of benefits from increasing self-awareness, to gaining a greater sense of control where you can respond to rather than react to situations.

This Parental Engagement Project commissioned by East Sussex County Council in collaboration with 24 schools aimed to raise achievement for pupils in receipt of Free School Meals. The project was conducted through engagement with parents as parent researchers.

The first resilience forum in Hastings providing an introduction to the concept of resilience and highlighting relevant theory within the field, and most importantly considering how you can apply resilience within everyday life.