We archive our previous Resilience Forums and conferences as many have associated resources that are still useful, such as slides you can download, blogs you can read, films you can watch, links and suggestions for further reading.
Digital technology starts a Resilience Revolution – 22 November 2018 – Blackpool Resilience Forum
Find out first hand how the positive impact of digital technology and social media has helped Blackpool and the wider community improve youth participation and how it supports people to become more resilient.
Lived experience of domestic abuse – 24 October 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
This Resilience Forum will explore experience of domestic abuse as an adversity context and in relation to resilience, using the Boingboing Resilience Framework and a social justice approach as the lens.
Co-producing research and policy in South Africa – 27 September 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
This Resilience Forum is about a recent research project that used arts-based methods to work co-productively between young people in South Africa, the UK and academics in both countries. The aim of the research was to better understand the complex relationships between drought, social-ecological systems and young people’s resilience in South Africa.
Young people’s mental health in schools – 17 September 2018 – Eastbourne Resilience Forum
This interactive forum is designed to complement the roll out of the guide ‘Supporting children and young people in their mental health: A guide for Schools”. An overview of how to use the guide and how the Resilience Framework underpins it will be provided.
Neuroscience and early development – 11 September 2018 – Blackpool Resilience Forum
This forum looked at how we can still hold on to the benefits of a neuroscientific understanding of childhood adversity while drawing on a positive resilience framework.
Young carers – 26 July 2018 – Blackpool Resilience Forum
We will describe what supports are available for young carers and their families in Blackpool and explore what we have learned from applying the concept of resilience to our practice.
Community resilience in post-earthquake Nepal – 2 July 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
‘Building Community Resilience’ has become a buzz phrase in Nepal, especially in the post-earthquake context. PhD student Shubhendra Man Shrestha will talk about the strategies used to build community resilience in these areas.
Resilience and inclusive arts practice – 20 June 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
This Resilience Forum features a group of artists who are studying on the Inclusive Arts Practice and Creative Media postgraduate degree course at the University of Brighton. There will be a chance to view their artwork as well as hear about how the theme of resilience shaped their work.
Friend for Life project – 17 May 2018 – Blackpool Resilience Forum
We will describe Blackpool’s own Friend for Life project, a mentoring/befriending project that matches Our Children aged 10-12 years with volunteer adults. This session will be of interest to all members of the Blackpool community.
Resilience and social marketing – 10 May 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
Social marketing encourages voluntary behaviour change for individual or social good and has something valuable to offer resilience researchers and practitioners – together they could be a powerful force for social change.
Building energy resilience – 25 April 2018 – Brighton Resilience Forum
What happens when you give families, living with prepayment electricity meters, the opportunity to be able to produce and consume (‘prosume’) their own solar power? What impact would it have on their domestic life, finances, resilience and wellbeing?
Resilience for well-being and recovery – 23 March 2018 – Blackpool Resilience Forum
The Recovery College course was co-developed by peer trainers with lived experience of mental health problems, practitioners and an academic. We used the Resilience Framework to design the course alongside our personal, practice and research expertise.