Resilience occurs over time.
In order to identify the different issues surrounding trauma, recovery, and resilience, the Storm metaphor is used to identify how traumatic situations may occur in our lives: sometimes expected, sometimes a complete surprise. However the “storm” develops in your life, it is typically scary, dark, and overwhelming. These lessons have been developed to help you understand the different aspects of “storms” in your life. These modules are meant to watch and discuss in the sequence presented below. They build on one another. Take your time. It is recommended to watch them on a weekly basis, in order to process all of the information. Do this with your precinct, team, or group. Repeat the lesson or repeat the series. We learn best by repetition. Each link will take you to the video lesson, a teacher’s guide for discussion, and supplemental reading/information, is available. This program is NOT a substitute for therapy. This program is designed to help you understand what may be happening to you and normalize the impact of a traumatic situation on your thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. If you are experiencing any life-threatening/suicidal thoughts
Call the crisis number: 800-273-8255
Resilience in Mind Training Includes
Educational Videos
Online, on-demand educational videos. Because you can’t always determine when you will have the time to learn new information on how to manage your internal or external stressors.
Relationship Impact
Relationships are the most important part of our lives and learning to manage these is important. Part of our video collection involves learning about how you may be impacting others and how they are impacting you.
Physiological Changes
How pain, trauma, and other emotional events impacts your brain and body. Recovery involves learning about what is happening. This is helpful in learning that you are not unusual in how you are experiencing and coping with life.
Why did I???
Sometimes we do not understand why we behave the way that we do. Others can catch us off guard and we may act in ways that we don’t want to. Part of the lessons address these issues and help you understand some of the WHYs in your responding.
Coping Skills
Coping is learned. You have to practice intentionally over time and in different situations. Each lesson ends with a coping skill related to the lesson taught.
Resilience is…
an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change, according to Merriam-Webster
Resilience for Prevention
This program is designed to support your knowledge in order to help you better understand what is happening when or just after it has happened to you. This includes being able to identify thought patterns, behaviors, or other responses to painful situations in relation to your past or to a situation that has happened more recently due to life events.
