Resilience in everyday life - Krisse Lipponen

A good life involves difficulties, and overcoming them is at the core of happiness. Resilience is the ability to face difficulties and cope with them or with them. The book presents the diversity of resilience through positive psychology and a solution-focused method.

The book describes the social and cultural basis of resilience and its nature that is renewed in everyday life. Positive human relationships, knowing one's own and the environment's strengths, and one's own agency make it possible to survive even in difficult times. These dimensions of resilience are created and grown, like all skills, by practicing them continuously.

Through case studies and life stories, the book helps to identify resilience and its development. Practical examples present ways to strengthen both individual and group coping with difficult situations. Group resilience consists of surprisingly similar things to individual resilience – for example, in work communities and schools, the resilience of people and groups can be strengthened as part of normal activities. The exercises in the book can be useful in guidance and supervisory work as well as in the education, social and healthcare sectors.

At its deepest level, resilience is a thread of vitality that enables well-being in the situations that life throws at us. It is created and maintained by one's actions, learning, attitudes, and is strengthened in everyday encounters and situations.