The Resilience Code

Our Resilience Code Programme (RCP) was developed by the team at Omnia Mind and the RAW Project  to encourage young people to explore their innate resilience and wellbeing, as well as outlining practical ways to build resilience. Our resilience solutions encourage young people to focus on the day-to-day habits and behaviours that build long term resilience.

The RCP is a 90 minute workshop where we teach the science and evidence behind seven easy to apply daily habits that, if repeated, have a compound effect on resilience and wellbeing.

Each student will receive a workbook after the workshop, and we challenge them to try out some of the practices over the 28 days. We revisit the students after the 28 days to discuss some simple resilience solutions going forward.  We teach the students how small, incremental, everyday habit and behaviour changes, compound to massive positive changes over time. Our programme is about implementation. The students get an opportunity to implement the knowledge that they have learned during the workshop.

Academic attainment is linked to wellbeing and resilience. There is strong evidence that those who do well academically are more likely to be more resilient and healthier than those who achieve less good results. There is also strong evidence to suggest that resilience may improve an individual’s performance in the labour market, reducing the chances of unemployment or low quality, low paid work. Research shows that those who have a high level of ‘non-cognitive skills’ are more likely to have better employment outcomes. These skills include resilience and coping. This partly occurs by leading on from better attainment at school. Resilience may also equip individuals with a greater capacity to find and keep good quality work.

Resilience and wellbeing are seen as   ‘core’ and ‘essential’ skills to everyday life, underpinning the way that we think, create and interact with others.