What Really Builds Resilience? A Practical Overview of the "FUEL Your Resilience" Model
CPD courses for psychologists in United Kingdom
UK psychologists, improve your CPD with 'Fuel Your Resilience,' a compelling course designed to fortify your practice.
In this 60-minute talk, resilience is reframed from the often-misunderstood idea of constant strength into a dynamic, human capacity that includes vulnerability, emotion, and adaptation. Drawing on psychological science and real-world application, this talk introduces the FUEL Your Resilience model - an integrative, practical framework designed to help individuals and professionals build sustainable resilience in the face of ongoing stress and complex challenges.
Participants will explore why traditional messages about “staying strong” can inadvertently undermine wellbeing, and how engaging with the full range of human emotional experience can enhance coping, recovery, and growth.
The talk provides an accessible overview of the four core components of the FUEL model: Flexibility, Using resources, Energising, and Locating control. Each element is grounded in established psychological theory and translated into practical strategies that can be applied immediately in both clinical and everyday contexts.
The talk concludes with three simple, evidence-based strategies that participants can begin using immediately in their personal and professional lives, as well as information about further training opportunities for those wishing to deepen their skills in applying the FUEL model in clinical, organisational, or coaching contexts.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this talk, participants will be able to:
- Describe resilience as a dynamic and human process rather than a fixed trait or constant strength.
- Identify common misconceptions about resilience and their impact on mental health and performance.
- Explain the four components of the FUEL Your Resilience model and the psychological principles that underpin them.
- Apply at least three practical strategies to enhance their own resilience and support resilience in others.
- Recognise the role of flexibility, resource use, energy management, and perceived control in coping effectively with stress and adversity.
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