Resilience is an exciting combination of:
1.
Personal Competences (like the 7
you can find in our ‘Resilience Scan’)
2.
Social energy sources
3.
Structural energy sources
After our last
blog-series on resilience, where we have discussed the 7 personal competences,
we start a new series on ‘Social Energy Sources’ today.
Aaron
Antonowski writes the following on this topic: ‘people who are socially well
integrated and rooted within a warm family, likeminded people, a community and
a national identity (which they are proud of), automatically create one of the
pillars for a healthy lifestyle and resilience.
Now, you might think: this sounds well, but really,
how can you ever be integrated and rooted in all these environments. Such
thinking does not sound unfair. Still, fact remains; who wants to develop
resilience cannot refrain from building up his or her social sources. Let us
start with a short list of some of the social sources:
1.
Family, partner, children, grandchildren,
broader family;
2.
Friends en acquaintances;
3.
Community, associations, sport-clubs
and other tribes;
4.
Professional contacts, colleagues,
intervision-groups;
5.
Our national identity, clan.
Well then, ask yourself: on a scale of 1 to 10, how
much energy do you receive from each of these 5 sources? Then, question nr. 2:
what people, within each source, are mostly giving you energy, and who is
mostly draining your energy?
Create a little list; divide the energy-givers from
the energy-drainers. And, perhaps, choose to park the energy-drainers for a
while, and find out how you can spend some more time with the energy-givers.
Starting next week, we will take a look at each of the
5 sources.
Good luck
Paul Donders
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