R2 Resilience Program
Standard Manual for Workplace Settings
The R2 Resilience Program©: Standard Manual for Workplace Settings uses an evidence-based approach to help employees identify and use resilience-promoting factors. The Program is designed both for team leaders to support their staff, as well as provide the tools individual employees need to build and sustain their resilience during challenging times.
The R2 Resilience Program© is unique with its focus on two types of protective factors that build resilience: the rugged qualities inside us and the external resources that provide us with the many kinds of support we need to thrive when stressed.
The Standard Manual for Workplace Settings contains a series of modules, one for each of the 10 protective factors (five rugged qualities and five resources) that have been found to be most important for employees experiencing unusual amounts of stress on the job or at home.
Resilience Factors Covered in this Program:
Each module contains key learning objectives, a summary of the science and case studies, as well as activities that can be used to help employees build resilience.
Rugged Qualities:
- Flexibility– the ability to adapt to changes by applying multiple strategies based on the situation. Being flexible requires us to recognize our beliefs, gather evidence to dispute or support our beliefs, and use the knowledge we gained to challenge how we see problems.
- Motivation and Perseverance – the ability to continue behaving in ways that benefit us during difficult times. Motivation and perseverance mean getting back up after failing and continuing to try in the face of challenges.
- Help-Seeking – getting help from others when we are experiencing a problem, feeling troubled, or when we encounter a stressful circumstance. Help seeking is actively looking for solutions to our problems.
- Mindfulness and Self-Regulation – the ability to be present and aware of ourselves during a difficult time. Mindfulness and self-regulation mean understanding and accepting what happens and having control over our responses.
- Self-Efficacy and Confidence – the ability to see ourselves as people who are worthy and capable. Self-efficacy and confidence is the degree to which we value or like ourselves, and how much we believe in our capacity to complete a task.
Resources:
- Regular Routines – the ability to create predictable, reoccurring interactions or events that help us to feel safe and optimistic about the future.
- Opportunities to Use One’s Talents – knowing our strengths allows us to understand the things we excel at and use our skills to contribute to the wellbeing of others. Talents are things we can do well, with a high likelihood that we will succeed.
- Cultural Practices – the practices that are collectively held and sometimes repeated over time. Cultural practices can offer us a meaningful life, result in higher self-esteem, and connect us with our community.
- Relationships with Co-workers, Family and Community – having positive relationships with others helps us feel like we belong to a community and increases our self-efficacy. Our social capital is the network of relationships that we build over time that is available when we need help dealing with a crisis.
- Fair Treatment – socially just access to the resources we need to live our best lives. Fair treatment means that we respect the rights of ourselves and others to be safe and have opportunities to realize our potential.
