Developing resilience
C. Gabrielle Salfati
Resilience is a key set of positive psychology tools to help individuals and organizations increase their well-being and productivity. These tools help you bounce back from adversity more quickly and with less negative effect. They are the unlock key for success when facing adversity or challenging times. Resilience is the key ingredient in creating an organizational culture of energy and engagement.
Resilience has been shown by research to be a teachable mindset and skillset that few people are taught, but everyone needs, especially when dealing with times of change and situations of high stress.
Resilient individuals not only are able to protect their own well-being, but also lead with a disposition and energy that have a positive impact on their teams and organizations.
Our resilience training and coaching encompass four broad sets of resilience tools: Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical. Between them they provide a comprehensive positive, social, cognitive, and neuroscience psychology-backed approach to:
Decrease the impact of stress
Avoid burnout
Sustain a flourishing life of meaning, purpose, engagement,
and renewed energy
Gabrielle Salfati is French, Swedish and American, and has lived across the world. She is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Investigative Psychology Research Unit at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Her 25+ year career to date has been focused on supporting individuals that work in some of the most high risk and high stress environments, including the military, law enforcement, forensic mental health practitioners, and other front line and first responder organizations. Her work in Positive Psychology focuses on the development and delivery of evidence-based resilience training programs and tools to support resilience and wellness and prevent burnout on the individual, team and organizational levels.
“Resilience is about the ability
to struggle well.”
—Christopher Peterson