A Year for Practical Skills
Major trends over the last 12 months signalled that there’s more uncertainty ahead – what impact will artificial intelligence have in the near future? How will robotics influence job security? What does global instability and geopolitical tensions mean for us? Not to mention digital overload, as doomscrolling on social media takes a toll on mental health through hyper-awareness of what’s happening all around the world.
As these challenges gradually increase, we need to become more conscious of how we can maintain our mental health.
Adapting Deliberately
These changes mean we need skills to adapt. However, we need to adapt in a way that we feel confident and that we can keep pace without burning out along the way.
That’s the challenging part. There are so many changes happening at once that we need more clear on how we’ll manage, how we’ll adapt. This means we need to know not just what we’ll adapt to, but also what skills we’ll use. For example:
- Vision – What matters to me? What would I really like to achieve in life?
- Composure – How am I going to maintain a sense of calm in all kinds of situations?
- Reasoning – What do I need to learn? How will I learn and adapt and challenge myself?
- Tenacity – How will I maintain motivation? How will I manage mistakes and learn?
- Collaboration – How will I involve others? How do I stay in touch and maintain relationships?
- Health – How will I look after my own health through ups and downs?
Without being clear on how we use these skills, it’s easy to get carried away by the flow of daily challenges. This is where we might end up feeling overwhelmed, burned out, anxious…
We need to learn and practice these resilience skills so that we can maintain a balance of adapting to changes, while also being able to maintain our own mental health so that we can have fun, relax, and be able to enjoy life.
Make It Practical
These are the skills people are learning through the PR6 resilience model. Real practical skills that help us feel more in control – being able to recognise what we need to do and how to do it.
Resilience First Aid is a great way to learn not just how to support your own mental health, but also support those around you. This is about being proactive – not waiting until things get tough, but instead investing ahead of time to prevent challenges in the future.
High Adversity Resilience Training takes it a step further – skills for first responders how deal with some of the toughest challenges in life, and need to be able to take it all in their stride and come back and do it all again, while still being able to go home and relax at the end of the day.
These and other programs are what we’ve been investing in, building, publishing research, getting accredited, and getting fantastic feedback from people on the real valuable effect they notice in their daily lives from being more deliberate about protecting their mental health.
If you notice the challenges in yourself or those you work with, get in touch and let’s help you access real valuable skills that make a difference.
This year we all need these skills, so let’s make it a resilient 2026!
Driven Programs
An integrated suite of assessments and prevention programs. As a leader in resilience science and technology, our programs provide a scalable system to strengthen mental health at every level — from individuals to teams facing the toughest challenges.
4 Hours – Launchpad for resilience that measures and builds 24 essential life skills.
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