Nurturing Resilience: Moving Beyond Coping

Nurturing Resilience: Moving Beyond Coping 

Trainer: Fiona Anderson

Location: In person training delivered in CiNI, 40 Montgomery Road Belfast, BT6 9HL

A one day practice development workshop for helping and caring professionals.

This one day session shifts resilience from being seen as something inside an individual to something created by the conditions around them. Instead of asking “why isn’t this person resilient?”, we ask “what’s missing in their safety, relationships, agency, meaning and belonging and what can we influence as practitioners?” The training treats practitioners as active shapers of those conditions, not just supporters of individual coping, and offers a clear, practice friendly framework for doing this in real NI settings.

“Resilience isn’t a trait you either have, or you don’t. It’s something we can nurture — in relationship, in community, in context. Our job as practitioners is to create the conditions for it.”

 This workshop invites practitioners to move beyond resilience as a checklist or an individual coping skill, towards a relational, trauma informed and ecologically grounded approach to building genuine resilience capacity with the people they support, rooted in the Northern Ireland context.

Across the day we will:

• Explore relational and attachment informed approaches that move beyond “bounce back” narratives
• Translate theory into tools for NI practice contexts
• Use structured reflective exercises to identify what enables people to feel safer, more connected and more hopeful
• Apply the 5 Conditions for Resilience framework to practice

This training is for practitioners supporting children, young people and adults in Northern Ireland, across statutory, community and voluntary settings, who want to move beyond a narrow focus on coping skills towards practice that actively seeks to impact the conditions in which people live and recover.

About the Trainer:

Fiona Anderson has 30 years’ experience in the voluntary and community sectors. After a career in social work within criminal justice, education, homelessness, substance use and mental health, she now specialises in training, learning and development. Fiona is dedicated to supporting employers and leaders to promote vibrant, healthy environments that cultivate a positive, inclusive workforce, particularly for those in challenging helping roles.

How do I book?
To book click the link below or if you would prefer to pay by invoice please email info@ci-ni.org.uk or call 02890401290.

Important Information:

• If you have questions or need assistance, please email info@ci-ni.org.uk or call 028 9040 1290
• CiNI is located in the 40 Montgomery Rd business park. Please enter the stairwell by Podium for Sport and go to the 1st floor. We have free parking. Bus: Metro 6 (Cregagh Rd – Montgomery Rd stop after the large roundabout).

Please Note: This course is charged at £95 per person for non-members OR £80 for members of CiNI.