Interpreting GAPPS Reference Manual

Emotional Resilience
What is Emotional Resilience?
Emotional resilience is the capability to perform consistently in a
range of situations under pressure and to adapt behaviour
appropriately.
It is the capability to balance the needs of the situation and task
with the needs and concerns of the individuals involved.
The capability to retain focus on a course of action or need for
results in the face of personal challenge or criticism.

Commonly, Emotional Resilience is considered to be a persons ability and

desire to get up again after being knocked down. Can they take the
knocks that life will give them.

Useful quote for those who are in a state of self-pity: M. Scott Peck says
Life is difficult. Who told this individual that it was meant to be easy?

Levels of Emotional Resilience

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Emotional Resilience Questions

What coping strategies do you have for a particularly challenging or
difficult task.
Give me an example of how you coped in a particularly challenging
or difficult task.
When you were last criticized for something, tell me what you do.
Give me an example of how you maintained focus on a course of
action in the face of personal challenge.

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Emotional Resilience links to:

Emotional Resilience is closely linked to personal motivation levels and
foundational belief systems. What motivates this individual? What do they
believe for themselves and/or about others?

Low levels of achieving may be connected. Do they have a personal

goal? Can they envision a future when such obstacles have been
overcome?

Impact of Emotional Resilience level

Very low Emotional Resilience can lead to a person giving up on
themselves, their career, even life. In acute cases it can lead to clinical
depression. Usually this is when someone has genuinely faced very serious
obstacles repeatedly and has been getting back up each time, now they
simply feel they have run out of energy.

Very high Emotional Resilience. Such individuals often have a desire and
personal motivation far beyond their real capabilities most often these
individuals have overcome a serious hardship (many are disabled) or gone
through a very traumatic experience and come through. They have a zest
for life beyond the normal. The potential danger is that this person does
not know when giving up (not words they ever use together) is actually
the more sensible option.

An individual with a need for high levels of safety and security is unlikely
to have high Emotional Resilience as well.

Low Emotional Resilience typical issues and

considerations
Common low Emotional Counselling considerations/tools
Resilience issues and techniques

Little or no self-esteem. Establish root cause, potentially abuse,

being bullied, and stature?

Poor attitude towards work and Perceptual positions work

others

Tendency to blame others for all Being at cause or effect

problems
Creative and survival cycles of
behaviour

Can flare to anger, even violence Uncover root causes

Job or career fit

Considering self-employment? Typically this needs very high levels of
Emotional Resilience or plenty of money saved.

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Leadership roles with hard to manage staff doing tough jobs (very often
such areas are strongly unionized), requires high levels of Emotional
Resilience.

Low levels of Emotional Resilience require jobs that are steady, often
repetitive, with few changes in the organization or industry.

Development Links
Level Title Format/Method
suitabili
ty
2+ Developing Resilience just how do Six part e-Course
you keep on keeping on?
4+ Thriving in tough times Case studies
4+ Bouncing Back the game of Game-based Simulation
resilience
1+ Wheres my mojo gone? Seven part e-Course
1+ Why I cant be bothered dealing Seven part e-Course and
with depression assessment
5+ Whos your caddy? Finding new Perceptual Positions
solutions to difficult problems activity
6+ From here to wow Assessment and 12 part
e-Course

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