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ABOUT THE RESILIENCE DOUGHNUT

"Resilience is the process of continual development of personal competence, while navigating & negotiating with available resources in the face of adversity." Lyn Worsley

Why is Resilience important?

People who have happy and fulfilling lives have positive life skills that help them grow through life's inevitable challenges, rather than being damaged by them.

How do we build resilience?

• In Schools the Resilience Doughnut encourages staff to use existing strong relationships around each child.

• With parents, the Resilience Doughnut encourages parents to focus on the interaction of their child's strengths.

• In organisations the Resilience Doughnut builds personal and professional resilience to enhance staff wellbeing.

Why measure resilience?

• To enable children, young people and adults to take responsibility for their own wellbeing and learning about self.

• To promote self discipline/self control. • To enable children, young people and adults to know

what resources they have to build competence to face adversity.

The Resilience Doughnut is a practical, strengths-based model for developing resilience in children, young people and adults.

Resilience in Children and Adolescents

The Resilience Doughnut is a simple and practical tool which can be used to support the development of resilience in children and adolescents. We have taught and trained many parents, teachers and practitioners across the UK and used the model directly with children and adolescents through our workshops and intervention programmes.

Resilience in Adults

The Resilience Doughnut also sheds light on how adults develop the skills for coping with adversity through their lifetime and offers insights for nurturing both personal growth and positive relationships with others. We offer a range of training and development options if you are interested in developing the resilience of adults including staff, parents and adult client groups.

What is the Resilience Doughnut?

The Resilience Doughnut is a practical, strengths-based model for developing resilience in children, young people and adults. It identifies and combines strengths needed to thrive in a modern world. Developed at the Resilience Centre Australia, the model is based on a wide body of international research examining the factors common to

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children, young people and adults who have shown resilience in the face of adversity. The Resilience Doughnut has had considerable success across Australia, and now spreading across Japan, South Africa and is now making an impact across the UK.

Why a doughnut?

It has been identified that there are two forces at play when looking at developing resilience:

• Internal or personal characteristics that enable a person to bounce back from adversity. These personal competences are associated with healthy development and life success.

• External or environmental influences that contribute to the building of these personal competences. These external influences interact therefore reinforcing their efficacy.

It is these internal and external factors that have been combined to form the Resilience Doughnut with I HAVE, I AM and I CAN statements including all the components of the research relating to internal characteristics and 7 external factors that are shown to contribute to building resilience.

What is different about this approach?

The Resilience Doughnut is a simple interactive tool, which combines the key areas of research models proposed over the past decade. It is important to know the research base well in order to teach the model and

so staff are equipped through our Training and Development opportunities.

Many resilience programmes exist that also tap into the enormous amount of research into building resilience. However they are complicated programmes involving working a person's self esteem and don't always involve tapping into the resources around a person, which develop and confirm self-esteem.

We don't teach people how to be resilient.

The emphasis on using the Resilience Doughnut is on the process of building both developmentally and through the manipulation of the environment, rather than a programme that teaches how to be resilient. The Resilience Doughnut creates a paradigm shift, and promotes a process of developmental change that can occur throughout a school / organisation, within each young person / adult, their homes and their communities over the course of a lifetime.

A validated measure Following a study of over 2,500 children and young people, the Resilience Doughnut is now a validated measure. It does exactly what we say it does!

Get in touch if you would like more information about our evidence and ongoing research >

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RESILIENCE DOUGHNUT WORKSHOPS

Child and Adolescent This two hour workshop is ideal to support children and young people build their resilience. It can be delivered 1-to-1, with a small group or with a class group of up to 30 children or young people.

What does the child and adolescent workshop cover? This workshop will enable participants to:

• Assess their current strengths, which contribute to resilience.

• Understand what they are able to change, in order to improve their ability to cope.

• Recognise and discuss each other's strengths and how to encourage these.

Building on the workshop. The workshop is just the starting point. There is a range of options for follow-up and extension work that can be led by us or by your school or community group. Through this work, the children or young people can start to combine and build their strengths that they identified in the workshop. This process can be a wonderful experience and is a also great opportunity for parent and community involvement.

Visit our website or get in touch to find out more >

Adult This two hour workshop is ideal to support adults build their own resilience. Great for building personal and professional resilience in the workplace and for schools and community organisations working on the wellbeing of parents and adult clients.

What does the adult workshop cover? This workshop will enable participants to:

• Understand the power of a strengths-based approach.

• Assess their current strengths using the Resilience Doughnut.

• Understand what they are able to change, in order to improve their ability to cope.

• Create their own Doughnut Moments. • Recognise and discuss each other's strengths and

how to encourage these through solution-focused scaling questions.

• Explore how the model can be applied to their own lives.

With parents, this can be combined with The Parents' Workshop or form part of The Family Programme.

See Page 6 to find out more >

If you are a school, this forms one of our five Teacher Wellbeing modules.

See Page 7 to find out more >

The original Resilience Doughnut Workshops for children, young people and adults. Ideal for schools, community organisations and the workplace.

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INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES

Working with Children

'Connect 3' is a creative 9 week programme (based on six 90 minutes sessions) to support KS2 pupils. Children will learn about their personal strengths using The Resilience Doughnut, learn about resilient thinking skills and connecting with others, before putting this into action with the Kindness Project. The programme aims to improve wellbeing, confidence, social skills and mental resilience so they can cope better in challenging situations.

Included in this programme: a parent information and engagement session; a staff information session; validated pre and post programme assessment; and an opportunity for qualitative feedback from pupils and staff. The Resilience Report can be included. Depending on your focus, this programme is also a great opportunity for peer learning.

Our popular intervention programmes for 9-18 year olds improve wellbeing, confidence, social skills and mental resilience so they can cope better in challenging situations.

Working with Young People 'Linked Up' is a programme to support 11-18 year olds so they can cope better with the challenges of teenage life. This creative and interactive 9 week programme (based on six 90 minutes sessions) aims to help them find their strengths using The Resilience Doughnut, develop improved problem solving, develop positive and resilient connections with others, and negotiate changes in life when strengths are challenged. The young people put this all together with the Kindness Project.

Included in this programme: a parent information and engagement session; a staff information session; validated pre and post programme assessment; and an opportunity for qualitative feedback from pupils and staff. The Resilience Report can be included. Depending on your focus, this programme is also a great opportunity for peer learning between KS3, 4 and 5.

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PARENTS & FAMILIES

The Parents' Workshop This 2 hour workshop is ideal to support and equip parents to build their child’s resilience so they are better able to cope during tough times.

What will this workshop cover? This workshop will enable participants to:

• Explain what we mean by resilience. • Understand why resilience is important and the

benefits of a strengths-based approach. • Understand the foundations of the Resilience

Doughnut model. • Use the model to work with their child to assess their

current strengths, which contribute to resilience. • Help their child to understand what they are able to

change, in order to improve their ability to cope. • Learn tools to support the process of building a

more resilient family.

This can be combined with The Resilience Doughnut Workshop (Adult) or form part of The Family Programme.


The Family Programme This is a whole-family approach to building resilience. Ideal to support and equip families to become more resilient and cope better during tough times.

There are up to five stages, as detailed below.

1. The Resilience Doughnut Workshop (Adult)See Page 4 to find out more >

2. The Parents’ Workshop

3. The Resilience Doughnut Workshop (Child and Adolescent) See Page 4 to find out more >

4. The Family WorkshopParents and their children to come together to recognise and share each other's strengths and explore ways in which they can encourage them and build them together to create a more resilient family.

5. Optional Project This is an opportunity for follow-up and extension work that can be led by us, your organisation or in partnership. This can be based around a Kindness Project or Sharing Our Strengths Project and can incorporate further community involvement and creativity.


Our range of workshops and programmes to support and equip parents to build their own and their child’s resilience, as well as a whole family approach to make families stronger.

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TEACHER WELLBEING

Our Teacher Wellbeing modules will raise the wellbeing, morale and resilience of school staff so they can passionately teach and connect in a positive school climate.

Through extensive research, it has been shown that people who exhibit positive wellbeing have (P) positive emotions, are (E) engaged in meaningful activities, have intentional (R) relationships, have a sense of (M) mission and purpose and experience (A) achievement in their lives. These characteristics are referred to by the acronym PERMA and are the outcome of positive experiences in families, school and communities and result in a mindset that helps people to engage positively in future life experiences (Seligman, 2013).

In each of the our Teacher Wellbeing modules, skills are practiced to support staff in moving towards each of the PERMA outcomes.

For each two-hour workshop, staff will be placed into cross curricula groups (groups are allocated at the beginning of the program and maintained during learning modules). Each group will work together to discuss content, provide feedback and practice skills.

Raise the wellbeing, morale and resilience of your school staff so they can passionately teach and connect in a positive school climate.

The Modules

Our Teacher Wellbeing modules are based around the following topics:

1. Solution Focused Approach to Managing Change (personal application)

2. Optimistic and Pessimistic Thinking (personal application)

3. The Resilience Doughnut for Adults (personal application)

4. Creating a Supportive and Connected Environment (personal and professional application)

5. Classroom Coaching (professional application)

Delivery Structure As well as running all five modules consecutively, the following approaches can be taken:

• Modules 1, 2 and 3 are available as a single development day or as three twilight sessions.

• Module 3 is available as a stand-alone development session.


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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENTWe provide a range of high quality, practical training and development opportunities for professionals working in a range of settings with children, young people and adults.

LEVEL 1 TRAINING (CHILD & ADOLESCENT)

Our Level 1 Training equips one or two members of staff with the understanding, skills and resources to fully implement the Resilience Doughnut into your school or community organisation.

STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY

Our Staff Development Day is the perfect way to introduce the Resilience Doughnut to your team and get them started with this powerful approach to resilience and wellbeing.

LEVEL 1 TRAINING (ADULT)

Our Level 1 Training equips one or two members of staff with the understanding, skills and resources to fully implement the Resilience Doughnut into your organisation.

TEACHER WELLBEING

Raise the wellbeing, morale and resilience of your school’s staff so they can passionately teach and connect in a positive school climate with our Teacher Wellbeing modules.

LEVEL 1 ADVANCED TRAINING (CHILD & ADOLESCENT)

Get the skills, understanding and resources to plan and deliver the official Resilience Doughnut Connect 3 and Link3d Up intervention programmes within your own organisation.

ONGOING DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT

A full package of continuing support and development for Level 1 trained staff to enable you to maximise the impact of the Resilience Doughnut in your organisation.

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STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY

Our Staff Development Day is an introduction to the Resilience Doughnut for Professionals wanting to use the model with children and young people or adults. Your Staff Development Day can have a focus on Child and Adolescent resilience and wellbeing or Adult resilience and wellbeing.

What is the purpose of this training? The training equips staff with a greater understanding of resilience and how they can use this strengths-based approach to build a more resilient school, community or workplace. This is also perfect for practitioners and organisations who work with adult clients.

In a school or community setting it is an opportunity for staff to learn about the Resilience Doughnut model, so they can start to use it as a resource with the children, young people and parents they work with in small groups and 1-to-1 within their own school or community organisation. With an adult focus, it is an opportunity for staff to learn about the Resilience Doughnut model, so they can start to use it as a resource with themselves, their colleagues and, if applicable, adults clients in small groups and 1-to-1 within their organisation.

An introduction to the Resilience Doughnut for professionals wanting to use the model with children and young people or adults

This day works perfectly as a stand-alone training and is great if your organisation would like to explore this approach to whole-organisation resilience and wellbeing. If your organisation already has, or is planning to have, a member of staff trained to Level 1, this is a great way to develop momentum and gain practical support from colleagues before implementing the model.

Who is it suitable for? The child and adolescent focused day is suitable for teachers, welfare staff, youth workers, health practitioners, psychologists, social workers, child care workers... in fact anyone who works with children or young people. The adult focused day is suitable for any professionals who wish to develop the resilience and wellbeing of the staff in their workplace or for practitioners working with adult clients.

What is the structure? Available as a full day, one half day or as two half days, all of which are tailored to meet your needs. Our full day is the most popular option as it explores some key aspects in more detail. It is usually delivered at your organisation but, if needed, we can provide an agreed venue at additional cost.


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LEVEL 1 TRAINING

Child and Adolescent What is the purpose of this training? This two day UK-based or online training with Lyn Worsley, from the Resilience Centre, Australia will equip you with the skills and resources to fully implement the Resilience Doughnut within your school or community organisation. With the Level 1 Training you will be able to deliver the Resilience Doughnut Workshop, The Parents’ Workshop, carry out in depth work with those you work with, present staff and parent information sessions and embed the model into existing good practice within your organisation.

Please note that this Restricted Licence does not permit the use of the Resilience Doughnut in the public domain or in other organisations.

Who is it suitable for? It is suitable for teachers, welfare staff, youth workers, health practitioners, psychologists, social workers, child care workers... in fact anyone who wants to use this model with children or young people within their own organisation or practice.

What does the training cover? • Comprehensive teaching about the components of the

Resilience Doughnut, and the research on which the model is based.

Adult What is the purpose of this training? This two day UK-based or online training with Lyn Worsley, from the Resilience Centre, Australia will equip you with the skills and resources to fully implement the Resilience Doughnut model for adults in a range of settings.

Please note that this Restricted Licence does not permit the use of the Resilience Doughnut in the public domain or in other organisations.

Who is it suitable for?

It is suitable for team leaders, HR Managers, principles, executive teams and professionals working with adult clients.

Accredited Level 1 Training for staff to fully implement the Resilience Doughnut within their school, community organisation or workplace.

• Introduction to strengths-based work with young people.

• Strategies for enhancing a more optimistic thinking style in young people, and nurturing their abilities for moral thinking and perspective taking.

• Step by step explanation of how to teach the Resilience Doughnut to various target groups (including parents, primary school students, high school students, community and professional groups).

• Opportunities for attendees to interact with Resilience Doughnut resources and to practice using and teaching the model.

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Are there any Level 1 pre-training requirements?

Yes. In order to take part you should have attended a session on the Resilience Doughnut at a conference or workshop or have read Lyn Worsley's book, The Resilience Doughnut - The Secret of Strong Kids / The Resilience Doughnut - The Secret of Strong Adults.

Are there any further opportunities for training?

Yes. If suitable, there is the opportunity for exceptional Level 1 facilitators to work towards a Level 2 - Professional Licence. With a Professional Licence you are able to deliver the Resilience Doughnut in the public domain and in other organisations.

What does the training cover?

• Australian and overseas research in resilience in adults, the Resilience Doughnut model and how to teach the model to others.

• Training in the transitional stages of adult life and its influence on relationships and coping with change.

• Training in optimistic thinking and its impact on our own personal and professional resilience and interactions in the home and workplace.

• Developing processes to help adults cope with stress, pressure or challenging agendas in the workplace.

• Training in how the Resilience Doughnut model can be used to build a culture of personal and professional resilience and assist staff “bounce forward” from life’s challenges.


This Level 1 Advanced Training provides existing Level 1 (Child and Adolescent) trained staff with the skills, understanding and resources to plan and deliver the Connect 3 and Link3d Up intervention programmes within their own school or community organisation.

LEVEL 1 ADVANCED TRAINING

What are Connect 3 and Link3d Up? 'Connect 3' is a creative 9 week programme (based on six 90 minutes sessions) to support KS2 pupils. Children will learn about their personal strengths using The Resilience Doughnut, learn about resilient thinking skills and connecting with others, before putting this into action with the Kindness Project. The programme aims to improve wellbeing, confidence, social skills and mental resilience so they can cope better in challenging situations.

'Linked Up' is a programme to support 11-18 year olds so they can cope better with the challenges of teenage life. This creative and interactive 9 week programme (based on six 90 minutes sessions) aims to help them find their strengths using The Resilience Doughnut, develop improved problem solving, develop positive and resilient connections with others, and negotiate changes in life when strengths are challenged. The young people put this all together with the Kindness Project.

Visit out website or get in touch to find out more >

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ONGOING SUPPORT & DEVELOPMENT

Child and Adolescent We provide ongoing support and development to Level 1 trained staff in schools and community organisations. We can:

• Work with you to develop the best approach for the model to work effectively in your school or community organisation, including how it can be integrated into existing best practice (eg; transition, peer learning, family learning, leadership programmes, growth mindset, mindfulness, PSHE etc).

• Work with you to establish a whole-school approach to resilience and wellbeing centred around the Resilience Doughnut and other proven solution-focussed, strengths-based approaches.

• Deliver, co-deliver or support you to plan and deliver your own engaging workshops, programmes and information sessions for the children, young people and parents within your organisation.

• Manage and analyse data from the Resilience Report in order to support the implementation and evaluation of targeted interventions.

• Support Level 1 trained staff to progress to Level 2 Trainers, if appropriate.

A full package of continuing support and development for Level 1 trained staff to enable you to maximise the impact of the Resilience Doughnut in your organisation.

All Level 1 trained staff automatically become Affiliate Members of Resilience Doughnut UK and benefit from a national and international network of colleagues using the model in a variety of settings. Through this network, Affiliate Members receive access to updated resources, discussion groups and support, as well as the opportunity to share ideas, resources and success stories with colleagues. We also provide a package of on-site support and development to enable Level 1 trained staff to maximise the impact of the Resilience Doughnut in their organisation.

Adult We provide ongoing support and development to Level 1 trained staff in organisations. We can:

• Work with you to develop the best approach for the model to work effectively in your organisation.

• Work with you to establish a whole-organisation approach to resilience and wellbeing, centred around the Resilience Doughnut and other proven positive psychology models.

• Deliver, co-deliver or support you to plan and deliver your own engaging workshops and information sessions within your organisation.

• Deliver your staff training sessions. • Manage and analyse data from the Resilience

Report. • Support Level 1 trained staff to progress to Level 2

Trainers, if appropriate.

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RESILIENCE REPORT

Why use the Resilience Report?

The Resilience Report provides the opportunity for those working with children and young people to support them by enabling opportunities to combine their strengths and build competence to cope during tough times. The Resilience Report can be used with an individual, class group, whole year group or whole school to identify need, target early intervention and measure impact. Measuring resilience through the Resilience Report can be incorporated as part of a Resilience Doughnut Workshop as well as the Linked Up or Connect 3 intervention programmes.

Taking a resilience snapshot The process of taking a snapshot is broken into three steps: Resources, Adversities and Competence.

Step OneThis step uses the Resilience Doughnut strengths measure. There are 7 strength factors with 10 statements in each. The participant must answer how strongly each statement is true in describing themselves. Each factor also prompts an additional written response.

Steps Two and ThreeThese steps are the survey questions. The participant is shown a series of questions and statements, as they answer they can see their progress. Once all three steps are completed, the snapshot is complete and the user can view their Resilience Report.

The Resilience Report uses three validated measures to provide a snapshot of the specific resilience characteristics and wellbeing of young people and provides avenues for intervention and on going support. The Resilience Report for adults is also available.

The Report

View scores and results.The Resilience Report provides a measure of an individual’s competence and adversities, or in other words, what they have going for them and what is working against them. Each question in the surveys relates to a specific assessment. The report shows the scores resulting from those surveys broken down into each element. The Competence and Adversities columns highlight potential difficulties the individual may have, and the Resources column shows the strengths available to them.

Problems are highlighted at a glance.The report holds a great deal of information and include simple markers to highlight any element that requires attention. These assessments are made using a scoring scale provided by the validated measures.

See changes over time.The report works best when there are multiple snapshots taken over regular intervals. The ideal amount of time between each snapshot will vary for each individual but, as a starting point, is suggested at once every 6 months.

Strength comments.Once ‘The Resilience Doughnut’ has determined the top three strength factors, the individual has the opportunity to enter some text. They are asked what is good about that factor, why they think it is strong and what they could do to make it even stronger. These comments have proven to be acutely valuable, acting as a resilience diary for the individual, and giving group managers specific and unique information. 13

Our range of training, development, delivery and evaluation opportunities provide a sustainable whole-organisation approach to resilience and wellbeing in schools, community organisations or other public, private and third sector organisations.

To assist you in planning a sustainable approach we suggest a range of pathways as detailed below. All pathways start with the essential components of a Staff Development Day to build understanding and develop momentum across the staff team and then Level 1 Training for one or two members of the team who wish to lead its implementation. These can be done in either order.

We understand that it is essential for Level 1 trained staff to be well supported and we recommend the Level 1 Advanced Training and taking advantage of the Ongoing Training and Support from the Resilience Doughnut team. If you are using our powerful online tool then we provide Resilience Report Training and Support for you to maximise its potential. Any whole-school approach wouldn't be complete without a focus on Teacher Wellbeing and we provide a series of five solution-focussed modules, perfect for twilight delivery.

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Level 1 Training (Child and

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Positive Schools Programme

Staff Development Day (Adult)

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Staff Development Day (Child and

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POSITIVE SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

Want an established sustainable whole-school approach? Our Positive Schools Programme provides a two year whole-school programme of training, development, delivery and evaluation for schools to fully embed this approach and raise the wellbeing and resilience of staff, students and community. The programme impacts on the whole school learning community in which everyone takes the same approach and the same message - providing a school community able to foster resilient students. The outcome? Resilient staff, students and parents able to connect, succeed and thrive - all backed up with validated measures.

Most schools have aspects of resiliency in their school plan in order to develop students to be well balanced, resilient and prepared for life beyond the school environment. The Positive Schools Programme is a multilevel approach of promoting resilience and a positive school climate, which can be implemented into the whole school community, particularly in times of change. Schools with a positive climate, practice a whole-school approach to the development of wellbeing and resilience, which involves every teacher and every student in their natural interactions each day. Positive psychology in schools is gaining popularity as a means to achieving student wellbeing and subsequent engagement in learning. Contact us now to discuss the Positive Schools Programme for your school >

Our two year Positive Schools Programme will raise the wellbeing and resilience of your staff, students and community so they can passionately teach, learn and connect in a positive school climate.

Initial training provided by ResilienceDoughnut team to develop teachercapabilities and resilience.

Accredited Teachers or ResilienceDoughnut team train teachers in theResilience Doughnut for studentwellbeing.

Accredited Teachers or ResilienceDoughnut team train parents in thesame Resilience Doughnut model.

Apply the Resilience Reportmeasure to promote and measurestaff resilience and wellbeing.

Students apply Resilience Report tomonitor their personal wellbeing.

Survey parents to create feedback onextent of understanding.

Staff workshops develop new skillsand strategies – twilight, online etc

Student workshops to embedunderstanding and skills.

Parent workshops to embed understanding and parenting skills. Additional online or twilight workshops / courses

Staff apply new strategies acrossfaculties and whole school andprepare student approaches.

Student mentoring, classroomcoaching, specific interventions.

Parents assist / support school approaches to resilience to enable collaboration and partnership.

FOR ALL STUDENTS FOR ALL PARENTSFOR ALL STAFFTeachers develop their capability to train students and parents.

TRAINIncreasing capacity

MEASURE Feedback using validated measures

PRACTICE Perfecting the skills

APPLICATION Impacting others

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