Why is resilience important to families?
Families are wonderfully diverse with many different interests, needs and abilities. We all face difficulties at some time in our lives – every time we learn a new skill, face a new situation, deal with conflicts, experience loss or disappointments.
However, some families have more than their fair share of challenges whether through disability, bullying, abuse, poverty, or tragic circumstances. Your family may be one of them. Family resilience is important because it:
- Provides everyone a foundation to build confidence
- Helps support so each of you can try new things
- Encourages you to take on challenges alone or together
- Keeps you going when things get tough for one or all of you
- Helps you to deal with failure and frustration with each other
- Gives you the strength to get up and try again together
- Gives you a ‘WHY’ to keep going towards goals.
This version of the Resilience Wall Framework is designed to help families consider themselves as a family unit through a resilience lens. By working through the framework, families can look at their day-to-day as well as the longer-term to see what works for them – building their resilience wall, brick-by-brick.
This framework can be used in conjunction with the Children and Young People’s Resilience Framework; working with them on a one-to-one basis to build their resilience, or the Schools Resilience Framework; working on a whole school approach to resilience.