Resilience comes from the Latin word "resilire" and means something like bounce back. In English "resilience" means resistance, psychological strength.

Resilience is therefore the inner strength that enables people to emerge healthily in body and soul from crisis phases in life that are characterized by considerable stress and high loads.

The damaging effect "ricochets" off them, so to speak. Resilience in a broader sense means not only to survive these crises, but also to grow with them, to become stronger through them.

Being resilient doesn't mean being invulnerable or callous.

Even if they have thicker skin, resilient people can be desperate, angry, and angry. You are by no means invulnerable. But in contrast to less resilient people, they are better able to cope with problematic states.

Instead of giving up, they act (pro) actively to shape and improve their life situation. As a result, they put themselves into emotional states that give them strength, in which they feel their power. They do not suffer any permanent damage and are able to help - and to be helped.

Knowing your own potential strengthens resilience. People with a high degree of resilience have a connection to their inner potential, resources and qualities.

Resilience research has found that resilient people are self-effective, meaning that they believe in being able to make a difference and thus Become the creator of your own reality of life.

And if they cannot change certain things on the outside, they find creative and constructive ways to deal with them.

After these introductory remarks, the important question now arises of how resilience can be strengthened through coaching.

Developing resilience is an evolutionary process. In my experience, if someone decides to become stronger in adulthood in order to get out of a victim position and take an active, creative role, this does not happen overnight.

It presupposes a development process or unfolding process for which the human being takes responsibility. This can also lead to setbacks. A life- and self-affirming attitude is the prerequisite, it must be trained.

In the course of the development process, one's own value awareness, self-worth, is strengthened: the conviction develops that one is unique and valuable.

Resilience training is therefore primarily about a positive and powerful self-image. Here, beneficial values and beliefs can help. Developing this is an important step.

At the same time, a constructive inner communication arises that strengthens the self-image instead of torpedoing it - as before - with self-critical and sabotaging thoughts.

Now it is possible to develop a life plan that arouses your own enthusiasm - or to update or upgrade a life plan that is no longer up-to-date.

And here are three other very important factors that should not be missing in such a process: Learning to take good care of yourself, saying yes to your own feelings and laughing / joie de vivre. Last but not least, these three factors are essential.

The keys to resilience