What is Resilience?

Resilience is the capacity to recover fully from acute stressors, to carry on in the face of chronic difficulties: To regain one’s balance quickly after losing it. Such capacity requires optimism, balance, sustainability, determination, diversity, flexibility, and connectedness.

	Optimism The expectation of a positive outcome and a focus on the most hopeful aspects of a situation.
	Flexibility The capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements; adaptability.
	Determination To demonstrate resolve, perseverance and strength of purpose.
	Connectedness To develop and maintain close ties with others and with the larger community.
	Balance Symmetry in physical sense and composure in the psychological sense characterized by stability, centeredness, and harmony.
	Diversity To have a range of possibilities, and a mix of alternative actions.
	Sustainability To endure and remain healthy and capable over time; to maintain a desired state of health and wellbeing.

Becoming and staying resilient is dependent upon both individual and environmental factors, and as such, understanding resilience and cultivating it at a number of different levels in society is vital.

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What is Resilience?

Optimism

The expectation of a positive outcome and a focus on the most hopeful aspects of a situation.

Flexibility

The capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements; adaptability.

Determination

To demonstrate resolve, perseverance and strength of purpose.

Connectedness

To develop and maintain close ties with others and with the larger community.

Balance

Symmetry in physical sense and composure in the psychological sense characterized by stability, centeredness, and harmony.

Diversity

To have a range of possibilities, and a mix of alternative actions.

Sustainability

To endure and remain healthy and capable over time; to maintain a desired state of health and wellbeing.

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