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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 10

Uncertainty comes with the process of change. The process of change is not always easy, and this is
one of the reasons why people are resistant to change. Resistance and resilience constructs can help
to better understand the response to the process of change. Whereas resistance is related with the
refusal to accept or to comply with something, resilience relates to the capacity to recover fast from
difficulties and reshape things.

RESILIENCE - to bounce back - to hold back

- towards movement
- let's go - against movement
- let's wait
- dynamic - static

- promotes adaptation - promotes sameness and
and growth stillness RESISTANCE

We can glimpse a potential conflict here, but the truth is that those that are more flexible and resilient,
overcome obstacles and abrupt changes better that the those who tend to refuse change staying in
the old mindset and ways of behaving.

So, let us focus on the resilience concept since it is a useful and powerful tool to help in the process of
change. Resilient people find new ways in adversity, have the ability to heal emotionally and the
capacity to continue moving forward.

Everyone has resilience! It is a matter to know how much and how well people use it in their lives.
Resilience does not mean that we are not feeling the intensity of life events or adversities; means is
that we have found a positive way to deal with those issues quicker and adaptably than others do.
Many people use the terms adaptable and resilience interchangeably. However, they mean different
things and we live and use them differently.

Adaptability helps us to create options. When we are adaptable, we accept that reality has changed.
And because we admit that we have a new reality, we can find new approaches to manage our
responses to our accelerating changing world.