Resilience: Bouncing Back When Life Knocks You Down

The pandemic and the state of our world have undermined emotional well-being to an alarming degree. Rates of anxiety, loneliness, depression and interpersonal conflict have skyrocketed, challenging our capacity to bounce back after life knocks us down. Fortunately, personal resilience can be grown and strengthened by adopting simple yet powerful behaviors and attitudes. In this interactive presentation, we will examine how these “little things” can lead to big differences in our overall well-being.

After 32 years as CEO, Philip Chard retired from Empathia, Inc., a behavioral services firm providing health, safety and productivity solutions for over 400 client organizations. He remains a practicing psychotherapist who writes an award-winning weekly column titled Out of My Mind, previously in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and now in the Shepherd Express. Philip is author of three books, includingThe Healing Earth, which won the Midwest Publishers Award. Previously, he was Director of Behavioral Science Education at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, where he was an associate professor and received the Outstanding Faculty Award.