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Resilience Through Life Seminar
Event Review
The Resilience Through Life Seminar on
We are very grateful to our speakers for their enlightening words and sharing of experience – their powerpoint presentations can be viewed by clicking the following links:
‘Transitions and Resilience Theory’ - Prof Brigid Daniel,
‘Recovery Resilience' - Ruth Campbell, COMAS
‘Developments in Training’ - Susan Gilchrist, Befriending Network Scotland
‘Using Resilience Theory in Practice’ - Ally Calder, The Rock Trust
Ruth Campbell's Seminar Report is now also available to download by clicking on the links below:
Resilience Through Life Seminar Report 2010 1.37MB
Ink Saving Resilience Through Life Seminar Report 2010 1.16MB
The following questions were raised during the event. They will be posted on the discussion forum where speakers and delegates can respond. We hope to continue the collaboration of ideas and opinions raised at the Resilience Seminar, and the discussion forum is a great way to share your thoughts:
· Are there questions or indicators – that can help a practitioner assess someone’s resilience?
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· If recovery is abstinence, what happened to harm reduction?
· If recovery is a journey rather than a destination then resilience is the fuel for that journey.
· Is there less of a sense of community today?
· Nature or nurture? Can someone just be naturally resilient?
· Relationship between physical health and resilience?
· Why is this such a white gathering? Might the notion of resilience be very important for black people?
· Resilience matrix – coping mechanisms: positive or negative?
· What is the long-term effectiveness of applying this approach to CEOL [Conversations at the End of Life] outcomes? Are there any longitudinal studies providing evidence?
· Who provides funding for Serenity Café, and are there any others around
· Are we born with resilience and it is lost during adverse experiences or is it a learned behaviour?
· Self Efficacy – How does this relate to service user involvement?
· Interested in the idea about how we can promote self-efficacy.
· How do agencies meet the challenge of promoting resilience in the face of possible legal and policy constraints (eg service users being subject to statutory orders)?
· If we only focus on the strengths or manifestations of resilience are we not in danger of preventing people from exploring negative childhood experiences?
· Due to the problematic nature of the term ‘spirituality’, would it perhaps be more useful to frame it as society, belonging, etc etc when this is often what we mean by it?
· Resilience: isn’t it as simple as some have it and some don’t?
· Is the resilience approach suitable / appropriate for everyone; how can we assess whether this is the right approach?
· How do you encourage a family who regularly state “we are not well” to overcome the isolation and opportunities available to them?
· How can we encourage resilience without support networks?
· How can we (services, social work etc) all begin to agree / work towards shared outcomes with similar language?
· If someone’s experience of transitions has also been ‘bad’, what is our starting point in working with them on the transition they face when they come to our service?
· Are resilient children naturally resilient adults? (Is there any research showing that?)
· How do we do holistic resilience from micro levels eg sleep, nutrition, arousal levels to the macro levels of systems change?
· Unless we look to our own resilience we will be “unhealthy” and unable to work properly for our clients and keep our work going?
· How do you continue to affirm people (adults) without being patronising?
· Given the recent wave of research into the effects of systemic inflamation and social deprivation upon cognition and psychological morbidity – how helpful can resilience theory be in practice?
· Is resilience a stand alone approach or is it a concept encompassed in many approaches?
· Are there any measures that can enhance the process of brain development and the acquisition of empathy to enhance resilience?
· Resilience seems a simplistic concept. Why so new?
· Is there a danger we use resilience theory / framework to justify the ‘common sense’ approaches we already use and uniformly apply resilience outcomes rather than critically analyse our approaches and incorporate service user identified outcomes?
· Is resilience a personality trait?
· Is the application of resilience theory a short term fix for a long term problem?
Finally, Scottish Social Networks Forum would like to thank
Resilience Knowledge Exchange Seminar
The Resilience Knowledge Exchange Seminar (organised by Scottish Social Networks Forum in partnership with The Rock Trust and University of Stirling March'09), inspired by the success of Mike Stein's Rock Trust lecture, critically analysed the concept of resilience for young people experiencing transitions in their lives.
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Training
Social Networks Trainer's Pack Supplement 1 - Attachment, Transitions and Resilience
This is a supplement to the main Social Networks Training Programme Trainer's Pack (insert link this should already be on the site as there is a link to it under Resources - Training Pack) although it can be delivered as a stand alone workshop taking around 1½ hours. It has been funded by The Scottish Government and developed for Scottish Social Networks by Allison Calder of The Rock Trust. However as before this has been a collaborative effort with particular thanks going to Brigid Daniel, Professor of Social Work, Head of Section, Applied Social Science at University of Stirling who has built our understanding of resilience and allowed us to use and adapt her material.
Befriending Network Scotland has developed training on using a resilience approach in 1:1 work with people. For more information contact Susan Gilchrist, Training Officer, Befriending Network Scotland email susan@befriending.co.uk
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