Top tips for resilience: Resilience and the recovery system

Introduction In these top tips, Cornelia Lucey, psychologist and leadership consultant presents some possible approaches to building resilience for teachers and educationalists and shares ways they can be applied to build resilience. It is important to note that these are only some tips to help you cope with everyday challenges at work and beyond. It is advisable to seek out professional help if you need support with your mental health. Education Support, a charity dedicated to supporting the mental health and well-being of education staff, also provide many helpful resources. What's the idea? Generally, we are quite good at understanding our threat triggers as we feel these the most. What people often find the most difficult to understand is what promotes their own recovery (there are all sorts of social, cultural and historical reasons for this, including our own negativity bias), so taking some time to think clearly about this can be helpful for sustainin