Separate control from concern
Identify the parts of a situation you can act on and the uncertainties you need to acknowledge.
Resilience
Rules of Resilience
Build habits and support that help you respond to difficulty.
By Valorie Burton
What this programme helps you work on.
Sustained pressure can narrow your choices and drain the resources you need to respond. Valorie Burton’s Rules of Resilience explores thoughts, controllable actions, energy and support. Participants reflect on a current challenge and build a practical response that includes recovery as well as effort.
Who it suits
Professionals facing sustained pressure and setbacks.
The focus
Controllable actions, thoughts, energy, resources and decisions to persist or stop.
Inside the programme
What you’ll explore.
These themes guide the learning. The depth and selection depend on the format and the needs you bring.
Examine your thinking
Notice interpretations that shape your response and consider a more useful way to describe the challenge.
Strengthen energy and support
Review the resources, relationships and recovery habits that help you meet ongoing demands.
Choose the next response
Consider when persistence, an adjustment or stopping an unhelpful approach would be the more constructive choice.
From ideas to action
Put it into practice.
Choose one controllable action and one recovery or support habit.
An example to work through
Choose a pressure you currently face. Map one action within your control, one demand on your energy and one source of support, then make a realistic plan for the coming week.
This is an example of local application. We adapt the discussion to your situation and agreed scope.
Your practical takeaways
What you’ll work towards.
- A clearer distinction between what you can and cannot influence.
- A practical action linked to your current challenge.
- A recovery or support habit to include in your routine.
The learning experience
How it works.
Facilitated learning combines explanation, discussion and reflection on participants’ own situations. Where the agreed format allows, you practise an application and decide what to try at work. Scope, duration and any follow-up are agreed around the group’s needs.