R2 Resilience

R2 Resilience Expert Training Course

Presented by Dr. Michael Ungar

Course Overview

Throughout this fast-paced, story-filled series of workshops, Dr. Ungar will inspire participants to shift their focus from people’s problems to their capacity to cope with adversity by becoming more rugged and better resourced, an approach Dr. Ungar and his team call R2 Resilience©. Participants will develop expertise in how to nurture resilience with individuals, families, organizations and their communities.

Eight topics will be covered that reflect three decades of Dr. Ungar’s work as a clinician and community developer, as well as build on lessons learned from his research on five continents.

Schedule

A four session R2 Resilience expert training program with Dr. Michael Ungar covering 15 hours of instruction. Training will be held virtually via Zoom, once per week, over a four week period. Sessions will be recorded and made available to participants*.

* Participants must attend at least two of the four live sessions if they wish to receive a certificate of attendance. All sessions will be recorded and available for participants to review at their convenience.

Next available course:
11:00 am – 3:00 pm (Toronto / New York time) February 15, 22, March 1, 8 – 2023

Price:
$575.00 CAD

Available Discounts:
– 10% discount for organizations enrolling more than 5 participants.
– 50% discount for students.
– 50% discount for participants from low and middle income countries.

Please contact us at rrc@dal.ca to obtain your special single use discount code.

What Participants Will Learn

  • What is Resilience? Risk exposure, protective factors, and desired outcomes
  • Protective factors as interlocking systems: What the science tells us about resilience and its application to people’s lives
  • The five phases of helping: The steps required to decrease psychopathology, disorder and dysfunction while building people’s capacity to cope
  • Helping people navigate: The many different parts of people’s social and physical ecologies that nurture and maintain their resilience
  • Helping people negotiate: The many different ways people communicate what they need for success
  • The R2 Resilience© Program: Designing a tailored approach to promoting resilience across cultures and contexts
  • Strategies for success: Why different life circumstances demand different strategies for resilience
  • Strengthening families, workplaces, institutions and communities: Changing systems to make personal transformation possible

Certificate Available

Upon completion of the course and four short assignments, a certificate will be provided so that participants can apply for continuing education units.

In addition, participants who complete the course and the assignments will be eligible to access training materials developed by Dr. Ungar and his colleagues at the Resilience Research Centre and use these in their own work with individuals and communities.

Course objectives

  • 1) To become familiar with the concept of resilience and recent advances to the science of positive development under stress;
  • 2) To understand how individuals with complex needs alone and in groups enhance their resilience and wellbeing using a range of socially desirable and undesirable behaviors that reflect the resources they have available;
  • 3) To become familiar with the skills associated with the R2 Resilience approach to promoting well-being;
  • 4) To become competent assessing the resilience of child and adult populations;
  • 5) To understand the role culture and context play in the patterns of resilience people use to cope with adversity;
  • 6) To develop strategies for working without resistance with hard-to-reach people and the institutions and communities that they are part of;
  • 7) To discuss ways that supports and services can be structured to make resilience more likely to occur for individuals and their communities.

Who Should Attend?

The workshop will be of interest to: (1) anyone working in human services, including mental health professionals such as social workers, psychologists and addictions counselors, community developers, human resource professionals, life coaches, and medical professionals in fields like nursing and occupational therapy; and (2) individuals with an interest in resilience as a tool for personal and social transformation.

Some of the R2 Resilience program affiliates:

“Your talks really brought resilient theory in practice to life and the feedback I received from those who I did speak to afterwards echoed this. Attendees felt you provided inspiration, clarity and a lot of food for thought.”
Sarah BrennanConference Organizer and Chief Executive of Young Minds, UK
“I’ve had the opportunity to partner with the Resilience Research Centre for the past two years and it has been the best partnership of my career. Dr. Michael Ungar and his team have created a robust resilience building program to help young people cope with social anxiety, which is being implemented across many countries through the Clear brand, from Unilever. The most interesting part of it is how the training teaches people to be more rugged and more resourced, so they can truly build their resilience.”
Marina LepitchGlobal Brand Manager, Unilever, Singapore
“Dr Ungar has been pivotal in our work to support a shared framework for intervening in the lives of children, youth and families who struggle with mental health and other issues. His concepts resonate with our values of being strengths-based and our philosophy that we are more effective when we can view the child/youth and their needs within the broader context of their family/community. Those who have trained with Dr Ungar have a deepened appreciation for what can be done with even the most complex situation to increase resilience and the resources needed for life’s challenges.”
Terri SparlingCEO for Huron-Perth Centre for Children and Youth, Canada
“High praise for Dr. Michael Ungar’s R2 Resilence work. Building resilience is the key not just for survival but opening the pathways to thrive.”
Lori HumberDirector of Powerlines Operations, Agape Child & Family Services, US
“Dr. Ungar and his approach to resilience has given me a new more agile way of thinking about and supporting the health and wellbeing of my team. His work is engaging and practical, which is exactly what leaders need to deal with ambiguity during periods of disruption, growth and change.”
Heather MullenVice President, Law, Johnson & Johnson
“Professor Ungar is regarded internationally as a vital resource for enhancing science, policies, and programs fostering well-being amongst young people everywhere”
Richard LernerDirector of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University
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Dr. Michael Ungar

Michael Ungar, Ph.D. is the founder and Director of the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. In 2022, Dr. Ungar was ranked the number one Social Work scholar in the world in recognition of his ground-breaking work as a family therapist and resilience researcher. That work has influenced the way human development and organizational processes are understood and studied globally, with much of Dr. Ungar’s clinical work and scholarship focused on the resilience of marginalized children and families, and adult populations experiencing mental health challenges at home and in the workplace. In addition to providing consultation to international NGOs like the Red Cross and Save the Children, government agencies in more than a dozen low, middle, and high income countries, and educational institutions at all levels of study, Dr. Ungar’s research has also influenced the HR and corporate social responsibility initiatives of Fortune 500 companies like Unilever, DHL and Cigna.

Dr. Ungar’s work emphasizes how to use the theory of resilience to increase both individual and institutional agility during crises, with numerous organizations having adopted his concept of resilience as a negotiated process that enhances wellbeing and social responsibility. He is the author of over 250 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and 17 books. His blog, Nurturing Resilience, can be read on Psychology Today’s website.

To view a sample of Dr. Ungar’s work, please go to his website www.michaelungar.com.

Dr. Ungar’s Recent Works

Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success
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Working with Children and Youth with Complex Needs: 20 Skills to Build Resilience (2nd Edition)
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Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change (OPEN ACCESS Edited Volume)
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What Works: A Manual for Designing Programs that Build Resilience (Free Download)
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Blog: Nurturing Resilience – hosted by Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/nurturing-resilience

R2 Workshops

Join Dr. Ungar and members of his team for a masterclass in resilience where you will discover the R2 approach and how to build resilience in your organization, business, school or community. The events can be tailored to all kinds of meetings, from a 1-hour keynote or webinar to a multi-day onsite workshop.

Available workshops: