ABSTRACT
Resilience is the bedrock of positive mental health. More than fifty years of scientific research have powerfully demonstrated that resilience is the key to success at work and satisfaction in life. Resilience can be the framework, in both therapy and coaching, within which difficulties are discussed and resolved. Some of the factors associated with resilience include: keeping events in perspective; self-acceptance; flexibility; support from others; self-regulation; and mindfulness. Resilience training and cognitive behavioural coaching (CBC) make a very good fit as they both start from the same position: revealing a person's attitudes to adverse events explains their emotional and behavioural reactions to them. An unhelpful idea about resilience is that hard times have tempered the steel of a person's character and it will never break, whatever life throws at them. Resilience shouldn't be seen as a fixed personality trait.
