A WORD FROM PARTICIPANTS
Real people, real change.
The best measure of the program is what participants say after living it. Here’s how The Resilient Mind has changed lives, relationships, and businesses.
TESTIMONIALS
In their own words
The Kids Play Foundation Team
Resilience Training Graduate
Carrie Fisher
I first started working with the team at The Resilient Mind project to help my husband, both in his personal and work life. My intent was to be there for support. My husband was dealing with a lot of stress, so our marriage was suffering in every area and his business was about to go under.
I felt that if my husband received the help, everything he needed would work out. I had done a lot of work on myself in the past years and thought that I was ne in dealing with all the stress around me. Well, I was so wrong. It didn’t take long for the team at The Resilient Mind to see that I was shut down, I was angry and blaming my husband for the situation we were in, I was also gaining a lot of weight and not taking care of myself, I was surviving but not by much. Looking back, I can see now that I had given up on being in a loving nurturing relationship with my husband. I was settling, this was affecting my relationships with my children, my friends and my co-workers.
The mentor started working with us one on one and as a couple, looking at what was important to each of us in our relationship and as individuals. He put a strategy together providing me with tools that helped to regulate the anger and deal with the stress, taught us to check in with each other when things
aren’t going right or if one of us is having a bad day. In the past we would be upset and take it out on each other because we did not understand how to
communicate what was really going on to one another.
Working with my mentor at The Resilient Mind project helped me realize that I needed to be committed to changing the way I lived my life, otherwise nothing was going to change.
The team at The Resilient Mind Project has given my marriage the love and tenderness it was missing, I enjoy being with my husband, we communicate, we have more intimacy, life is fun again. I was held accountable in a positive nurturing way, providing me with examples of ways to deal with my stress, it
taught me how to communicate with my husband so that he would understand me. I continue to work with the team at The Resilient Mind because I want to be the best that I can be.
Giselle, Davis
President of Davis Marketing
I was manager at a Downtown Eastside non-profit, and was invited by senior management to attend a seven-week resilient training course created by The Resilient Mind project. I was profoundly impacted by this course as it was a catalyst for personal and professional life transforming change. Through the course, I was given exercises that helped me to develop tools to de-escalate when faced with emotional challenges. I, for the very first time reached out and asked for help while escalated. I was always aware of my escalation but had no idea how to de-escalate. Because of this course, I had a profound shift in thinking. I began to acknowledge my needs instead of handling toxic emotions all on my own.
I didn’t have to fear my emotions anymore because I had a plan of action to move through them. I created a mantra that changed the way I viewed myself. “I am an emotionally wise woman. When I become escalated, I will choose to employ a healthy tool from my toolbox to bring me back to a place of well being. Once I am regulated, I can move forward from a healthy place.” My experience at the Alive Wellness Centre was just as fruitful. During my stay, I became aware of a pattern of distrust with others that caused me to isolate from others. This exasperated my ability to create healthy relationships. I have suffered in the past from persistent depressive disorder. I believe the tools and breakthroughs I received from these two programs contributed to my remission from this disorder.
On completion I held The resilient Mind training with my team and participated again and had similar results.
Adrienne Brown
Sharon Bladly PhD
The skills I learned gave my marriage back the love and tenderness it had been missing. We communicate more, we have more intimacy — life is fun again.
Program Participant
Resilience Training Graduate
Over the past 3 years I have received great benefit from the wisdom and guidance The Resilient Mind provided for me. As the President and CEO of Unlimited Contracting Inc., I have come to see the close relationship between my personal growth and development and the success of my business and team. Vic’s mentoring has anchored me with practical results-driven advice that is suited to my needs and built on his experience in the corporate world and behavioral health.
The strong personal connection that the team at The Resilient Mind has established with me personally, as well as our team is the driving factor for the continued success in our working relationship. My trust in the team at The Resilient Mind and his professionalism, has been built in the trenches of growing our company through a tough recession. The mentoring and guidance that the team at The Resilient Mind has shared has helped us double our corporate revenue for the past 3 consecutive years!
I am thankful to have met the team at The Resilient Mind project, who has helped me evolve as a person and a leader. I would not be the leader I am today apart from Vic’s guidance – and I can also say, that neither would my relationship skills be where they are without his mentoring.
Without hesitation I recommend the team at The Resilient Mind as a high-value asset, personally and for my professional life.
Barandon Farr
I began The Resilient Mind program back in 2010 because I believed my business and my marriage were on the rocks, and somehow the whole thing was connected. Vic my mentor, taught me how to handle my stress so that I could focus my mind to the difficulties in front of me, and find solutions and not wallow in despair. Since then, I have right-sided my business and we are moving forward with a much better plan for the future, and much happier employees. My wife and I are also moving in a much more cohesive and loving way. By regulating my emotions, I communicate much deeper with my wife and clearer with my employees.
The experience working with the team at The Resilient Mind, I believe, has saved my company and my marriage. The team at The Resilient Mind was
nurturing as I discovered my pain, and direct in letting me know when it was time to take action.
Warren Jones
The program taught me to handle my stress so I could focus on the challenges in front of me and find solutions instead of sinking into despair. I’ve right-sided my business with a much better plan and happier employees — and my wife and I are moving forward in a far more loving, cohesive way.
Business Owner
Resilience Training Graduate
The skills I learned gave my marriage back the love and tenderness it had been missing. We communicate more, we have more intimacy — life is fun again.
Program Participant
Resilience Training Graduate
When I began The Resilient Mind program, I was not really sure what to expect – but I knew I needed to make changes in my life and take action but was not sure how to start or where to get support. Very early into the program, I was challenged to observe my thought and emotional process as to how I perceived myself and my circumstances around me. The fact that the challenge was given in empathy and gentleness allowed me for the first time in my life to receive this brutally candid feedback… I was enlightened. I was then left with the decision to stay in this place or move on. Working with the team at The Resilient Mind and my mentor has been a powerful experience for me as an Immigrant, lower social-economic, 35 year old woman. I am in my third month of aftercare and a summary statement to share my experience would be: my self confidence has been significantly increased and I don’t fall into the hole of discouragement as often, but when I do – I have the strength, skills and support from the team at The Resilient Mind to climb out. My next step is starting my own book keeping business, which is a new wall for me to climb- but being I have climbed so many other walls in the last 3 months, I am
confident I can climb this one. Thanks to all the staff at The Resilient Mind for my new lease on life.
Jiti Sabharwal
Kelowna, BC President of Saba Bookeeping
Denise Ongaro
Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna, BC
Conducted Resilience training for clients
Sky Walker
Manager UGM, Vancover, BC
Conducted resilience training for her team
Thank you for reaching out. I am just now starting to be able to refiect between [my daughter’s] situation and the hurricane. I honestly feel like my focus on resilience has helped me make it through the worst of this without breaking. I handled it very differently than past situations in a couple of ways:
- I reached out for support from my front row relationships. In the past, I have kept everything to myself and shut people off.
- I didn’t try and force myself to do everything (work, kids, all commitments). I removed myself from work and prioritized what really needed to happen.
- I didn’t suppress my feelings. I was honest, spoke about them, and allowed myself to be emotional.
I am sure as I reflect more, I will be able to see deeper meaning for how I continue to move forward, but I feel like this is great progress.
Karen Smith
It’s one thing to learn the skills of resilience, and another entirely to put them into practice. This program has been instrumental in helping me bridge that gap.
Catherine North
Associate Certified Coach, MA
Marie St Laurant
President, St Laurant Trucking
Through the program my PTSD symptoms decreased so drastically that instead of it controlling my life, I’ve taken control over it. I’m aware of it now and can usually de-escalate quickly. I’m definitely on the healing path.
Recovery Program Participant
PTS Recovery Program
I began working with the team when everything in my life was unraveling — marriage, family, and career in pieces. The mentoring cut through the pain and confusion and gave me light for the path ahead.
Mentoring Client
Executive Resilience Program
The executive training gave me the same feeling as coming home for the holidays — an honest, genuine space to reflect. It helped me build awareness of my own psychology so I could reduce stress and raise my quality of life.
Executive Participant
Executive Resilience Training
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