Resilience First Aid

What is Resilience First Aid?

Resilience First Aid (RFA) is a mental health certification that teaches strength-based skills to support resilience in others and build meaningful relationships.

You will learn how to spot signs of low resilience in others, learn the language to talk proactively to people in need, and learn skills to help build their resilience.

This makes Resilience First Aid a highly proactive approach to suicide prevention through building meaningful connections and skills to have impactful conversations.

Many people don’t know what protects mental health, how to talk about it and what resources and skills are available. This is what Resilience First Aid will teach you.

Members of the public can offer proactive first aid/advice and have a conversation to help build resilience.

Many people don’t realise how important their mental health is until they are suffering, and it affects their everyday life. We need to act now.

The Resilience First Aid Approach

This is a new approach to put trained mental health champions in place who actively boost the resilience and mental health in their communities.

The course does so by teaching an effective conversational method called the ALL Protocol, followed by a detailed understanding of the six domains of resilience, skills and functional features of each to notice in others, as well as practical language tools to have meaningful conversations.

In addition, participants are given access to ongoing tools and assessments to explore and build their own resilience to create sustainability of the teachings, alongside resources that help facilitate conversations and build awareness.

The skills learned through Resilience First Aid apply to all relationships – with family, with friends, with colleagues, and all other interactions. The ALL Protocol taught through the certification is highly useful and applicable in everyday life, with participants frequently experiencing daily occurrences where they notice themselves using the ALL Protocol. It’s simple, easy to remember, and builds relationships through a strength-based approach.

Participants also learn self-care tools to build their capacity to sustainably support both themselves and others, avoiding burnout and compassion fatigue.

Through a comprehensive integration of materials, resources and training, Resilience First Aid provides a unique and neuroscience-based approach to proactively protect mental health.

What You’ll Learn Through RFA

• Getting certified in Resilience First Aid means you’ll learn about an existing set of science-based skills

• How to proactively build mental wellness in others using the ALL Protocol

• How to support others through six resilience domains (Vision, Composure, Reasoning, Health, Tenacity, Collaboration)

• Language and conversational examples on how to talk proactively about mental health

• How to respond when someone is struggling and refer to help if needed

• Use a strength-based model to become a source of hope and optimism

• How to connect meaningfully to support those around you, building lasting relationships

• Practical insight into the neuroscience of resilience and how to apply this to support others as well as yourself