This course was created to help lawyers at the beginning of their careers to deal with the stressors they encounter. Around 1000 lawyers have successfully participated in the course. Outcomes for them are:

•   Understanding of what resilience actually constitutes
•   Appreciation of the different types of stressor from daily hassles to potentially traumatic events
•   Recognition of the relationship between personality traits and resilience and the importance of knowing their own values
•   Understanding the external and internal resources which contribute to resilience and the psychosocial factors that promote it
•   Appreciation of what concepts such as ‘trauma’ and ‘mental health’ are from an evidence-based perspective
•   Understanding the physiological, cognitive, emotional and behavioural components of responses to an adverse event
•   Development of the ability to use cognitive-behavioural techniques to challenge unhelpful responses on exposure to an adverse event
•   Recognition of the fact that life can be tough and understanding what approaches help and hinder getting through such times
•   Using what they have learned to recognise signs of potential overwhelm and action to take

Psychological Wellbeing

This course has recently been developed to introduce people to the multi-factorial science of psychological wellbeing so that people can choose which elements appeal the most to them and incorporate them into their daily life.

Outcomes for them are:

•   Learning the different models of the concept of psychological wellbeing, its definitions and terminology
•   Understanding the development of the science from a multi-dimensional model, through to the concept of flow and the waves of positive psychology
•   Recognition of the strengths and criticisms of different models
•   Realising the effect of categorising emotions as ‘positive’ or ‘negative’
•   Developing awareness of the existential elements of wellbeing, such as freedom, isolation and meaning
•   Understanding of concepts such as self-transcendence and amor fati and how to incorporate them into our lives
•   Recognition of the importance of cross-cultural positive psychology
•   Ability to incorporate what has been learned into daily life through exercises, questions and discussion