Developing Resilience in Adults
Resilience is at the heart of our wellbeing, success and long term mental health, as we navigate our way through the experiences of adulthood.
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​We use The Resilience Doughnut to help us to understand the things that help all of us cope better, like relationships, a powerful identity, a sense of belonging, agency, meaning, purpose, achievement and social justice. A resilience-building response is attuned to the cultural and contextual differences found in individuals, the workplace and wider community.
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The Resilience Doughnut provides a practical research-validated tool for individuals, teams and organisations to better manage the inevitable ups and downs of life, and with individuals and small groups on a targeted basis to build capacity for resilience for those currently experiencing a challenge, adversity or transition.
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The Resilience Doughnut also provides a basis for workplaces to establish, build and strengthen a positive culture which involves every member of the organisation in their interactions each day. Fostering resilience at an individual, department and company level has the potential to increase the capacity for colleagues to grow and flourish within a positive environment.
Staff Resilience in the Workplace
The Resilience Doughnut provides a powerful and easy to use tool for adults with a solution focused, strengths-based practice at its core. Communities with a positive climate practice a whole-community approach to the development of wellbeing and emotional resilience, which involves everyone in their natural interactions each day.
Individuals with these skills have the tools to cope, thrive and flourish in their own lives, and contribute positively towards the community, friends and family around them - a kind of ripple effect.
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You can:
- host a Developing Resilience workshop for your community group
- join a scheduled workshop to take time to develop and consider your own resilience.
Developing Personal Resilience
Introduction to Resilient Thinking Workshop
What is it?
Who is it for?
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What does it Cost?
*Reduced prices for 2026!
Using the Resilience Doughnut, this practical workshop provides the opportunity for up to 25* adults to understand what helps us to cope, thrive and flourish during life's inevitable ups and downs. Ideal for CPD, school INSET days, special training days or events.
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Outline of session:
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Understanding the power of a strengths-based approach.
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Identifying current strengths.
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Considering personal competences
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What is resilience?
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Finding factors which help us to cope, thrive and flourish.
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Maintaining, connecting, and developing factors for resilience.
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Exploring how the resilience model can be applied to your own life.
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This workshop can be followed by the Strengthening Resilience Workshop at a later date to delve deeper into the model and explore practical ways to find the "ordinary everyday magic".
Scroll down for more details.
This workshop can be run for up to 25 adults (*subject to venue capacity).
2.5 hours including a short break.
We can adjust timing slightly if you have a different time slot in mind.
Book a group: £400 for a group of up to 25 participants.
Special Offer: £600 for 2 programmes running at the same venue on the same day.
At-cost travel and accommodation costs apply.
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Individual booking: Join a scheduled workshop at a local venue - from £35pp.
Check the Learn2Flourish Facebook events for new dates or contact me.
Strengthening Resilience (Part 2):
Finding the Ordinary Everyday Magic
New for
2026
What is it?
This interactive workshop builds on the foundations of the Introduction to Resilient Thinking and takes participants deeper into the practice of resilience. Together, we explore how resilience is not just something we draw on in crisis, but something we can intentionally strengthen through everyday choices, perspectives, and actions.
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Participants will discover the ordinary, everyday magic that already exists in their lives—the small but powerful factors that support wellbeing, adaptability, and inner strength. With the Resilience Doughnut model, through guided reflection and practical exercises, the workshop helps uncover personal strengths, values, and protective factors that contribute to resilience, and shows how to amplify them with intention.
You will learn how to:
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Identify the key internal and external factors that strengthen resilience
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Recognise and build on your existing strengths and resources
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Clarify your personal meaning and sense of purpose
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Develop practical, realistic strategies to make resilience stronger over time
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Create a personalised plan for sustaining resilience in daily life
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This session is reflective, strengths-based, and empowering, offering participants both insight and actionable tools. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with a clearer sense of purpose, greater confidence in their inner resources, and a practical plan for strengthening resilience in a way that feels achievable, authentic, and meaningful.​
Who is it for?
This workshop can be run for up to 25 adults (*subject to venue capacity).
Length of Session?
2.5 hours including a short break.
We can adjust timing slightly if you have a different time slot in mind.
What does it Cost?
Book a group: £400 for a group of up to 25 participants.
Special Offer: £600 for 2 programmes running at the same venue on the same day.
At-cost travel and accommodation costs apply.
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Individual booking: Join a scheduled workshop at a local venue - from £35pp.
Check the Learn2Flourish Facebook events for next scheduled workshop dates or contact me.
RECENT FEEDBACK
"I found I was looking at the concept of resilience in a new way"
"It made me realise how many strengths I have"
It was "an opportunity to reflect"
"Inclusion, belonging and connections are central to all the factors"
"I think we need to build children's resilience through the positives".