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The Resilience Doughnut - Resilience Training

THE RESILIENCE DOUGHNUT PTY LTD

Licensed Facilitator ResilienceTraining uses a strengths-based tool that identifies 'what works well' and uses existing strengths in children and adolescents to build their resilience continually and sustainably.

  • Online
  • NSW

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: Approved elsewhere: NSW

Product type: Program; Student activities; Professional learning; Whole school approach or initiative; Wellbeing monitoring service, platform or tool; Educator wellbeing resources or services; Class lesson plans

Contact details

THE RESILIENCE DOUGHNUT PTY LTD
ABN: 76 145 587 962

https://www.theresiliencecentre.com.au/resilience-training/

training@theresiliencecentre.com.au

Focus areas

  • Resilience and optimism

Curriculum alignment

  • Health and PE

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1), Whole class universal (Tier 1), Targeted small group early intervention (Tier 2), Intensive individualised approach (Tier 3)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Classroom teacher is trained; Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

The Resilience Doughnut is a simple, interactive and practical model and tool, which aims to identify the top 3 strengths in a child or adolescent and combine these factors to teach how to cope with confidence during experiences of adversity.

The approach is to focus on 'what works well' already in the lives of individuals and use these strengths, as opposed to trying to 'fix the problem', to be able to deal with the inevitability of adversity in life.

Facilitator training is available online and in-person Australia-wide. Online training spans across 4 weeks, while in-person training is across 2 days.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support

Evidence

The model of resilience has its foundation in strengths based and solution focused approaches, based on what works well to build resilience and a focus on hope, optimism, strengths and solutions.

Example references include:

  • Miller, K. et al. (2017). Evaluating the effectiveness of a resilience program for children and young people in a private Australian psychology clinic. Australasian Journal of Solution Focused Therapy.
  • Worsley, L. and Hjemdal, O. (2017). Scale development and psychometric qualities of the Resilience Doughnut Tool. A valid, solution focused and ecological measure of resilience with Australian adolescents. Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
  • Worsley, L., Lee, J., and Kong, J. (2018). Investigating the effectiveness of resilience-based interventions in Australian youth and its variability across refugee and non-refugee samples.