Resilience

Development as
a Restorative
Practice
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Michael Piraino
Michael@resilienceforsuccess.com

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Overview of the session

1. What is resilience?
2. The neuroscience of resilience
3. The six domains of resilience:
Vision Health
Composure Tenacity
Reasoning Collaboration
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Key Takeaways About Restorative Practices and Resilience

1. Goals, values and methods in common

2. Reinforce each other
3. Resolution of past incidents and preparation for
future challenges
4. Resilience development based on neuroscience
5. Extend the impact of restorative practices
6. Microtasks over a period of time

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15 Things Restorative Practices and Resiliency
Development have in Common

1. Build better relationships

2. Engage a preventative skillset
3. The skills involved go beyond the current issue
4. Practitioners lead by example
5. Promote character development
6. Important for practitioners and teams, not just
clients

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15 Things Restorative Practices and Resiliency
Development have in Common

7. Help people see how their behavior affects

others, positively or negatively
8. Guide people to see themselves as caring,
responsible and effective
9. Engage and teaches problem solving skills
10.Clarify personal values
11.Help people distinguish between right and wrong

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15 Things Restorative Practices and Resiliency
Development have in Common

12.Help participants look beyond immediate self

gratification
13.Understand that all people make mistakes;
resilient people admit and learn from them
14.Show how to consider the needs of others
15.Train people to use their smart brains

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Some Projects with Both Resilience and Restorative
Aspects

1. Principled policing (violence reduction)

2. Flow experiences (creativity and productivity)
3. Military toughness training
4. Better Angels (civil political discourse)
5. Fire Adapted Communities (wildfire prevention)

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Self Efficacy

“how well one

can execute
courses of
action required
to deal with
prospective
situations.”
--Albert Bandura
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The Language of Restorative Practice

Less Resilient Language More Resilient Language

Perpetrator, offender Responsible party;

Solution creator

Victim, sufferer Injured party

(or survivor in more
serious cases)

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The Old Definition of Resilience

Bouncing Back

Status
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The New Definition

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Resilience – important for:

• Small things
– Work stress
– Traffic, delays, frustrations
– Everyday challenges

• Big things
– Major illness
– Abuse
– Violence
– Tragedies, loss, heartbreak

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Low resilience:
• Even small setbacks feel like disasters
• Takes a while to get back on your feet

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High resilience:
• Bounce back from setbacks, then
• Use adversity as an opportunity to grow

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Resilience lets you...
• Stay focused on your goals & what is most important
• Allows you to always move forward

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Important!
• Resilience is a skill anyone
can learn and develop
• No matter your age and
stage of life, you can always
improve your resilience

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Resilience exists across
6 Domains

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The Six Domains of Resilience
We will look into each of these
Vision Composure Reasoning

Components: Components: Components:

1. Explore the Basic Needs 1. Calm Breathing 1. Visualisation
2. Set a Resilient Vision 2. Mindfulness 2. Resourcefulness
3. Identify Goals 3. Label Emotions 3. Explore Beliefs
4. Smarter Goals 4. Reappraisal 4. Embracing Change

Tenacity Collaboration Health

Components: Components: Components

1. Realistic Optimism 1. Support Perceptions 1. Health Goals
2. Staying Motivated 2. Trust & Likeability 2. Quality Sleep
3. Overcoming Mistakes 3. Mentor / Mirror 3. Exercise
4. Time Management 4. Better Communication 4. Nutrition
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Wellbeing is ‘what’, Resilience is ‘how’

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Stress and performance

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How resilience helps performance

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Resilience /
Performance
Matrix
• Avoid burnout, being
comfortable, or distress

• High resilience allows

you to sustain high
performance

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Neuroscience
of Resilience

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NEURO: MAIN POINTS

• Location Which areas of the brain are involved?

• Timing When should we build resilience?

• Plasticity What helps for learning?

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Location Key points:
Which areas of the • Smart brain and impulsive brain
brain are involved?
• Increase connection
• We need holistic training to develop
resilience – training that affects
many relevant pathways and
processing streams

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Timing Key points:
• Resilience is best developed in advance

When should we • Many only seek to build resilience after

build resilience? experiencing trauma – though at that point
it is harder to overcome entrenched
memories
• Building resilience in advance primes the
brain to be less emotionally reactive to
adversity, promoting a calm and
constructive response

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Small frequent tasks
= synaptic change
= better retention

• A more effective
way of learning
• Applicable to all
types of training
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Plasticity Key points:
• Learning and behavioral change relies on
physical changes to synapses and
This neurons in the brain
facilitates
• Small frequent tasks are better for neural
change change
• Talking, writing and drawing activate more
neural pathways and help embed learning

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More Science: Possible Selves

1. Imagine yourself as a successful

adult
2. Imagine what you are afraid of
becoming
3. Connect your success version to
your present
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More Science: Growth Mindsets:
The Tendency to Believe You Can Grow

• Acknowledge your weaknesses

• View challenges as opportunities
• Understand the research on brain plasticity
• Learn from failures
• Nurture a sense of purpose
• Reward actions, not traits
• Redefine “genius”
• Rely on effort before talent
• Be tenacious
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We Can
Measure
Resilience
And we should

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Measurement Vision
• Goal orientation, control, self worth, values
Your resilience is measured across the six domains of
resilience.
The filled-in area shows your score in that domain, while
Composure
• Emotion regulation, patience, stress as a welcome
the middle shows your overall score out of 100.
challenge

Reasoning
• Problem solving, resourcefulness, ready for change

Health
• Exercise, sleep, nutrition, brain health

Tenacity
• Bounce back, optimism through adversity

Collaboration
• Support networks, working in teams, managing
perceptions

Predictive Indicator - Momentum

• Indicator of future direction of wellbeing and
engagement
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Indicators
• A forward-looking
measurement
• An indicator of potential
future resilience
• Measures Approach and
Avoidance motivation
schemas
• Affected by all areas of
resilience

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Resilience:
Vision

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VISION
About purpose and meaning Basic needs of the brain
• Working towards clear goals • Attachment
• Ability to prioritise effectively • Control & Orientation
between competing goals • Motivation (pleasure & pain)
• Being committed & decisive Congruence
• Vision motivates to action • Have goals, work towards
The most important of the them, see results & don’t
domains have internal conflict

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Resilience:
Composure

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COMPOSURE
About regulating emotions Interpretation bias
• Effectively managing stress • Awareness of own biases
• Recognising the signs of • Being open to challenge
stress Reappraisal
• Increasing emotional • Learning how to reinterpret
granularity physical signals (anxiety »
• Having strategies to regain excitement)
composure when stressed • Use proactively and
or anxious retroactively

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Resilience:
Reasoning

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REASONING
About problem solving & Anticipate and prevent
critical thinking • Visualise scenarios & plan
• Ability to think clearly when for adverse outcomes
facing stress • Take action to mitigate
• Being resourceful future problems
• Seeing opportunity in Reasoning bias
change • Recognise thinking style
• Ability to challenge own • Manage blind spots
beliefs

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Resilience:
Tenacity

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TENACITY
About perseverance Realistic optimism
• Bouncing back from • Avoid being overly optimistic
setbacks (impacts motivation)
• Learn from own successes • Avoid pessimism (also
and experience impacts motivation)
• Perseverance is more • Realistic sense of hope
important than intelligence Managing mistakes
in achieving success • Accurately analysing mistakes
• Avoid self-judgement and
focus on learning

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Resilience:
Collaboration

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COLLABORATION
About support networks Investing in relationships
• Secure attachment • Building support networks
• Willingness to ask for help • Mutually valuable
• Willingness to be support for relationships
others • Mentor relationships
Managing perceptions Social context
• Perceived support is more • Recognising behaviour for
important than actual context
support • Using humour appropriately

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Resilience:
Health

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Health
HEALTH
About physical wellness Nutrition
• Foundational domain • Fat + sugar is potent
• Supports a healthy brain & producer of serotonin
ability to build resilience • Affects the brain (BDNF...)
Exercise Sleep
• Promotes long-term brain • Lack of sleep releases
health (neurodegeneration) cortisol, leads to being
• Plus short-term benefits impulsive
• Promotes BDNF • Quality is more important
than quantity
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Other Science-Based Resilience Exercises

1. Storytelling
2. Language
3. Reframing
4. Visioning
5. Strengths and gifts analysis
6. Acts of kindness, volunteering,
mentoring
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Other Science-Based Resilience Exercises

7. Practice of Gratitude
8. Three good things
9. Humor
10. Silver lining
11. Mindfulness: body scan, deep
breathing
12. Thought stopping
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