Frontline healthcare workers can take a new app-based micro-course on resilience and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Developed by Dignity Health Global Education (DHGE) and the University of Exeter, Strength to Endure is a one-hour course that gives insights on navigating the unprecedented situation healthcare workers now face on a daily basis.
The course costs $10 (US) and, as a way to give back to frontline workers and their communities, profits will be donated to charities in the UK and the US.
For more information and to register, visit www.exeter.ac...
Speaking at a recent conference on Mental Health and Young People in Devon, psychologist Dr. Kate Middleton inspiringly encouraged participants to reflect on resilience for teenagers. Coping with challenge and change has maybe never been so difficult than in today’s world, so how can one adapt from the weathers of life and recover from adversity?
This question, when addressed to us all, echoes uncannily with the even greater uncertainties about the ecological crisis we are inflicting on planet Earth - our common home. How can we apply resilience to absorb the shocks that are...
Resilience is the ability to cope with and rise to the inevitable challenges, problems and setbacks we meet in life, bouncing back quickly and stronger from them.
We can’t always control what happens to us and around us. The good news is that success is so much more than what happens to us, it’s how we respond that makes the difference.
In our agile, fast-moving business world, we need to be constantly on our game:
Customers demand more and competitors are ready to step in if we fall short.
Businesses and people need to keep moving, adapting and
A free event to help communities across Devon prepare for incidents such as severe weather and flooding is being held near Exeter next week.
The interactive day, entitled 'Becoming Resilient', will include guest speakers, workshops, case studies and an expert question and answer panel. It's being held on Wednesday 9 November, from 10.30am to 4pm, at the Kenn Centre in Kennford. Aimed at those interested or involved in emergency and recovery planning in their community, the event will include sessions the role of community rest centres, the role of the emergency services, testing...
The leader of a Devon council is calling on people across the South West to write to their MPs and ask for Westminster to prioritise investment in the Westcountry’s rail network. Plymouth City Council’s Labour leader, Tudor Evans, has asked that people across the South West play their part by helping to keep the pressure on government while a motion is put to the authority’s full council calling for action on further rail investment. Seconded by his Conservative counterpart, Shadow Leader Ian Bowyer, the motion asks all councillors to call on David Cameron to ‘get on with’ a study into the...
Labour leader Ed Miliband visited Exeter today to see the proposed site of resilience work at Cowley Bridge Junction.
The site was badly affected by floods in the winter storms of 2012/13 causing the main rail line into the South West to close for a several weeks.
Following the line closures, last year, the government promised to spend over £31 million on projects to improve the resilience of the South West’s rail network most of the money promised was never delivered and work never took place.
Earlier this week David Cameron announced that the money would finally...
Concerns have been raised that the £31.1m promised by the Government last year to secure the South West’s railways against severe weather was not delivered, despite widespread support from local authorities. The money was promised by the Government for a programme of rail improvements, after winter flooding cut off rail transport to the South West peninsula for several weeks in 2012/13 with an estimated cost to the South West economy of over £140m. Last week, before the most recent storms saw the destruction of 80m railway line near Dawlish, five Local Transport Authorities including Devon...
