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What is the Resilience Framework?

Research originating from Professor Angie Hart and Dr Derek Blincow with Helen Thomas in 2007 along with her parent, practitioner and young people collaborators – identified five key factors that have a huge influence on how resilient a person will be:

1. BASICS – All of my basic needs are taken care of (I have enough money, a nice place to live, a good diet, time to relax, and I feel safe).
2. BELONGING – I feel like I belong. I have strong and healthy relationships, I know that I am needed, I can make and keep friends.
3. LEARNING – I am developing myself through learning. I engage well with my school or college courses. I am organised. I feel like I have achieved things in life. I can cope with challenges.
4. COPING – I learn from my mistakes and am not too critical of myself. I am good at solving problems. I feel like I know myself (core self) well.
5. CORE SELF – I can understand the feelings of others. I know what I am good at. I am hopeful about the future.

These Resilience Wall Frameworks are designed to help an individual, school or family to review their own resilience and set out a plan of action that aims to improve resilience levels by making practical changes to their day-to-day lives – building their resilience walls, brick-by-brick.

Mental wellbeing is all about feeling good and functioning well. We all have mental health, and we can all do simple things to look after it.

If you’d like to know more about their work including practical ways to apply these ideas please visit www.boingboing.org.uk.

There you will find more information about how the social enterprise BoingBoing and university collaborators, especially the University of Brighton, are supporting people having tough times.

Thanks to Angie and colleagues for their support in helping Merseyside Youth Association, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust and the Liverpool Learning Partnership  develop these online versions.