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The Building Resilience Handbook
Building Resilience: How to Thrive in the Face of Life's Challenges
Imagine having abundant inner strength and resourcefulness to withstand and recover quickly from whatever difficulties life may throw at you. With The Building Resilience Handbook you can.
Packed with practical exercises and inspirational stories, this groundbreaking, research-based book of 314 pages will guide you step-by-step to develop inner strength and realistic optimism. It’s the formula to not only survive but thrive in the face of life’s challenges.
This book teaches practical tools to live in alignment with your values. It shows how to prevent stress negatively affecting your work, colleagues and family. In the face of stressful life and work challenges you will be able to:
• remain calm and healthy
• reduce worry
• experience more hope and optimism
• bounce back stronger
The book is divided into three parts. The first part covers how resilience works, the resilience building blocks, principles and steps, and includes a personal resilience questionnaire.
Part two covers seven Principles of Resilience with stories, tools and exercises on how each can be improved:
• connect to your meaning in life
• use your strengths
• maintain perspective
• generate positive feelings
• be realistically positive
• persevere by being open minded and flexible
• reach to others
Part three applies the Building Resilience Principles and tools to work and home settings. The work section outlines several strategies with practical exercises to create resilient teams. The home section contains 24 activities to enhance and reinforce children’s resilience.
The author, Rod Warner, has over 20 years experience in the field of performance improvement and has researched and published in the field of resilience. He runs the internationally acclaimed Building Resilience workshops. Delegates in the workshop say the exercises and tools in this book changed their lives.
“Inspiring and applicable throughout one’s lifetime” Fred Irumba, science teacher, Jakindaba Senior Secondary School.
“Easy to implement at work and home. The results are remarkable!” Brent Beilinsohn, Manager, Old Mutual Investment Group South Africa.
“Mind blowing! Implementing these practical exercises has made me a better person” Fanuel Kakuiya, Senior Superintendent, South African Police Services.
Imagine having abundant inner strength and resourcefulness to withstand and recover quickly from whatever difficulties life may throw at you. With The Building Resilience Handbook you can.
Packed with practical exercises and inspirational stories, this groundbreaking, research-based book of 314 pages will guide you step-by-step to develop inner strength and realistic optimism. It’s the formula to not only survive but thrive in the face of life’s challenges.
This book teaches practical tools to live in alignment with your values. It shows how to prevent stress negatively affecting your work, colleagues and family. In the face of stressful life and work challenges you will be able to:
• remain calm and healthy
• reduce worry
• experience more hope and optimism
• bounce back stronger
The book is divided into three parts. The first part covers how resilience works, the resilience building blocks, principles and steps, and includes a personal resilience questionnaire.
Part two covers seven Principles of Resilience with stories, tools and exercises on how each can be improved:
• connect to your meaning in life
• use your strengths
• maintain perspective
• generate positive feelings
• be realistically positive
• persevere by being open minded and flexible
• reach to others
Part three applies the Building Resilience Principles and tools to work and home settings. The work section outlines several strategies with practical exercises to create resilient teams. The home section contains 24 activities to enhance and reinforce children’s resilience.
The author, Rod Warner, has over 20 years experience in the field of performance improvement and has researched and published in the field of resilience. He runs the internationally acclaimed Building Resilience workshops. Delegates in the workshop say the exercises and tools in this book changed their lives.
“Inspiring and applicable throughout one’s lifetime” Fred Irumba, science teacher, Jakindaba Senior Secondary School.
“Easy to implement at work and home. The results are remarkable!” Brent Beilinsohn, Manager, Old Mutual Investment Group South Africa.
“Mind blowing! Implementing these practical exercises has made me a better person” Fanuel Kakuiya, Senior Superintendent, South African Police Services.
314 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2012
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April 11, 2016
I was really impressed with this one. Sure, there were some negatives - some of the case studies seemed a little bland and a lot of the resilience research is common sense to mention two drawbacks - but Rod Warner lives, breathes and works resilience, and it shows in this excellent resource.
After being retrenched himself and suffering significant work-related setbacks, Warner has reinvented himself as a resilience expert. He has conducted extensive research on the topic and runs successful workshops on "Building resilience" for individuals and corporates. This book is a collection of years worth of wisdom on the topic.
I particularly liked the 7 principles of Resilience model that he uses. For a start it has made me question my own thoughts and experience on resilience. I realised that for me, Mindfulness has to be included in the model whereas Warner believes in getting control of one's thoughts and feelings.
I also think he downplays the importance of Positive Relationships both in the creation of resilience and the sustaining of it. We are, after all, fundamentally social individuals, and this is where Psychology for me is so powerful since it is the best model for understanding interpersonal relationships. When you start a chapter with the quote "Other people matter" I want to say "Duh!" Of course other people matter. But I guess if you are coming from a particularly individual paradigm then it's a mental shift to focus on the interpersonal again.
After being retrenched himself and suffering significant work-related setbacks, Warner has reinvented himself as a resilience expert. He has conducted extensive research on the topic and runs successful workshops on "Building resilience" for individuals and corporates. This book is a collection of years worth of wisdom on the topic.
I particularly liked the 7 principles of Resilience model that he uses. For a start it has made me question my own thoughts and experience on resilience. I realised that for me, Mindfulness has to be included in the model whereas Warner believes in getting control of one's thoughts and feelings.
I also think he downplays the importance of Positive Relationships both in the creation of resilience and the sustaining of it. We are, after all, fundamentally social individuals, and this is where Psychology for me is so powerful since it is the best model for understanding interpersonal relationships. When you start a chapter with the quote "Other people matter" I want to say "Duh!" Of course other people matter. But I guess if you are coming from a particularly individual paradigm then it's a mental shift to focus on the interpersonal again.
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