Building resilient teams
Explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to build and sustain resilient teams.
Resilient teams can respond to a challenge, setback, or stressor by drawing on a wide range of resources and capacities. A team culture of resilience goes beyond the resilience of individual team members.
This workshop will support participants with practical, evidence-informed approaches to build and sustain resilient teams.
Participants will reflect on the characteristics of resilient teams. They will explore different tools to build resilience across key principles, including a shared mission and vision, sense of appreciation, and a secure base.
Designed for
Anyone with responsibility for leading or supporting teams. This may include practice supervisors, team managers, middle leaders and workforce development leads.
Learning outcomes
As a result of attending this workshop participants will be able to:
- Define and understand organisational resilience, considering the role of leaders and managers.
- Explain the characteristics of resilient teams.
- Understand the links between resilient teams and effective support for children and families.
- Use tools and approaches for developing team-based resilience, including Team as a Secure Base, emotional containment and appreciative inquiry.
Booking information
This is a full day interactive session delivered via Microsoft Teams and you are encouraged to contribute with the aid of break-out rooms, the chat function and large group discussions. Participants will benefit from having a quiet space to work without interruption. Slides will be sent out after the session.
Research in Practice members can use their membership allocation to book this workshop. Link Officers can use the booking request form to book this workshop. Please only use this form if you are authorised to choose your organisation's membership allocation.
Once your booking is received, our learning team will work with you to confirm a delivery date and provide relevant information.
The deadline for booking this year’s online workshops is 17 October 2025.
Organisations that are not Research in Practice Partners can commission this workshop individually by contacting our learning team.
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