Our resiliency is regularly challenged in our personal, clinical and professional lives. These challenges are especially evident within healthcare roles, whether this be within the NHS, third sector or charitable organisations, given the demands and complexity, working as part of the mental and physical health workforce. Recognition has resulted in several developments, including a session focusing on enhancing resiliency incorporated into several training curricula.

As a CPD opportunity, this workshop seeks to consider and develop resiliency practices at an individual and organisation level. Facilitators will support attendees to consider the factors that can support or impede resilience, from an individual and organisational perspective, as well as sharing experiences of what is going well and challenges around resilience. At the individual level, delegates will learn to support a third wave CBT ‘strength based’ low-intensity self-help intervention. Delegates will be supported to consider how they will approach implementing the intervention. Time will be set aside to consider potential barriers to doing this, to allow an opportunity to share expertise and consider ways to overcome these difficulties. Solutions generated will be discussed with time set aside for questions. Specific focus will be given to how and why practicing self-compassion on an individual level is recommended for clinicians as one possible strategy for enhancing resilience. Throughout the day, the workshop will be delivered with explicit reference to theory and current evidence-base. Content and approach is also rooted within a working understanding of an organisational setting, to support delegates to put theory into practice given their individual and service context.