The Resilient Mind

THE RESILIENCE PROJECT

Our Science

In 2014, the MyOutcomes clinical team set out to create a resilience training program that would make advanced behavioural, social, and neural sciences affordable and accessible to all. To accomplish this, our clinical team continually maintains an ongoing posture of secondary research to determine new discoveries in these advanced sciences — coupled with our experiences working with people over the last 20 years. The following biographies convey the content of The Resilient Mind Project and how it is applied to our training sessions.

THE MINDS BEHIND THE METHOD

Biographies

Eight leading researchers whose work shapes how The Resilient Mind Project is designed and delivered.

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Dr. Norman Doidge

Neuroscience, neuroplasticity, brain, psychiatry, and behavioral health.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

The Resilient Mind team has been significantly influenced by Dr. Doidge’s work — extending training over longer periods to work at the brain’s pace of change. Our project runs over a ten-week period, an hour and a half each week, and includes in-person games, two eLearning sessions, and telephone mentoring.

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A renowned psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and researcher, Dr. Doidge holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto and completed his residency at Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry. He serves as faculty at the University of Toronto and at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, with extensive clinical and research experience in neuroplasticity. A recipient of awards including the U.S. National Psychiatric Endowment Award and the Canadian Psychoanalytic Association’s M. Prados Prize, he authored the award-winning The Brain That Changes Itself — named best book of the year by The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Slate — which argues the brain is a plastic, living organ able to change its own structure and function. His later book The Brain’s Way of Healing explores neuroplastic healing. He speaks and lectures worldwide across North America, Europe, and Australia.

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Dr. Brené Brown

Vulnerability, courage, shame, and empathy.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

Courage and vulnerability accelerate how participants think, feel, and desire. The brilliance of Dr. Brown’s work lies not only in her research but in how she personally demonstrated vulnerability and courage. This has shaped how we create a safe environment for people to practice honesty and vulnerability — which produces deep engagement. Our gamification includes queries on emotional and relationship skills and videos that lead participants toward deeper engagement.

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Born in San Antonio, Texas, Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she has spent two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. Her motto — “Courage over comfort” — reflects her belief that you can’t reach courage without rumbling with vulnerability. She holds that daring leadership is a set of four teachable, observable, measurable skills. A #1 New York Times best-selling author, her books include The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and Dare to Lead. She earned a BSW from UT-Austin, an MSW from the University of Houston, and completed her PhD in 2002. Her 2010 TEDxHouston talk on vulnerability and 2012 TED talk on shame are among the most-viewed talks in the world, and her documentary The Call to Courage launched on Netflix in 2019.

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Dr. John Cacioppo

Loneliness, human relationships, social neuroscience, evolution, and social isolation.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

Stress and loneliness are synonymous. Dr. Cacioppo’s work provided empirical validation that a person suffering from loneliness will inevitably experience much stress. We’ve applied the link between engagement and resilience by creating fun, learning activities and questions that build deeper engagement and increase resilience among participants.

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A neuroscientist and pioneer of social neuroscience, Dr. Cacioppo was an expert on loneliness — likening it to hunger and explaining how it helped humans establish mutually beneficial relationships vital to survival. Born in Marshall, Texas, he received his PhD in psychology from The Ohio State University in 1977 and joined the University of Chicago in 1999, where he was the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and directed the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. His research explored what happens to the brain when social connections are absent, studying social fitness, resilience, and the effects of isolation on behavioral, mental, and physical health. Author of more than 500 research articles and the book Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (2008), he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was nominated by President Obama to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

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Dr. Scott D. Miller

Measuring outcomes, behavioral health sciences, and progress.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

Measuring progress along the resilience journey is critical to producing measurable results in participants’ lives. Through the ORS and SRS measures developed by Dr. Miller, we track session-by-session progress to learn who requires support and how to specifically support them.

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Dr. Miller is the founder and director of the International Center for Clinical Excellence, an international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioral health. Born in Glendora, California, he completed a BS in Psychology (cum laude) at Brigham Young University, then earned an MS and PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Utah. He served a psychology internship at an APA-approved Veterans Administration hospital in Salt Lake City, completing 2,000 supervised clinical hours. He spent his early career at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Wisconsin and later co-directed the Institute for the Study of Therapeutic Change. Today he conducts workshops and training globally and is among a handful of “invited faculty” featured at The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference. He serves as a Cummings Professor of Behavioral Health at Arizona State University and has authored numerous articles and books.

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Dr. Robert (Rob) Anda

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma, mental health, and determinants of health.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

Understanding ACEs in participants accelerates the ability to overcome them. The mystery of psychological pain becomes clear, and through our mentoring programs we help pinpoint the stumbling blocks that trip people up. We are thankful for Dr. Anda’s contributions during his time on our product development advisory board.

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A graduate of Rush Medical College (1979), Dr. Anda received board certification in internal medicine in 1982 and completed a fellowship in preventive medicine at the University of Wisconsin, earning a Master’s in Epidemiology. Author of more than 200 publications, his research spans disease surveillance, behavioral and mental health, cardiovascular disease, and childhood determinants of health. In 1990 he played a principal role in designing the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study — a large-scale, CDC-funded study of more than 17,000 patients that showed ACEs are common and have a profound negative effect on lifelong health and well-being. He works at the CDC as a senior scientific consultant in Atlanta and speaks internationally across public health, medicine, corrections, and social-service systems.

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Dr. Daniel Goleman

Emotional intelligence, resilience, sociology, clinical psychology, and meditation.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

The fact that our world now understands EQ brings greater value to a person’s life than IQ has allowed our team to focus on what really matters when developing resilience. We incorporate emotional-intelligence training — pioneered by Dr. Goleman in 1995 — through activities that build resilience into the Resilient Mind program.

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An internationally known psychologist born in Stockton, California, Dr. Goleman graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and earned a Ford Foundation scholarship to Harvard, where he pursued clinical psychology from an interdisciplinary perspective spanning anthropology, sociology, and psychology. His doctoral research examined meditation as an intervention in stress arousal, and he furthered his studies in India and Sri Lanka. He wrote for Psychology Today and covered psychology and the brain for The New York Times. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was a bestseller for a year and a half, with more than 5 million copies in print in 40 languages, followed by Working With Emotional Intelligence (1998). A co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), he currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University.

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Dr. Travis Bradberry

Emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

It’s common knowledge how important emotional intelligence is for managing one’s psychological functions — yet achieving it is harder than it sounds. Dr. Bradberry is a new generation of trainer who has developed innovative methods to help people increase EI. Over 70% of Fortune 500 companies use his tools, and our team applies many of these theories in the gamification program.

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Dr. Bradberry is an award-winning author and co-founder of TalentSmart, a global think tank and consultancy serving more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading provider of emotional-intelligence tests and training. A world-renowned expert in emotional intelligence, his engagements include Intel, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. His bestselling books have been translated into 26 languages and sold in more than 150 countries; Emotional Intelligence 2.0 presents a step-by-step program of 66 proven strategies for self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. He holds a BS in Clinical Psychology from UC San Diego and a dual PhD in Clinical and Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and has been covered by Newsweek, Fortune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review.

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Dr. Larry Crabb

Counseling, ministry, engagement, community, and resilience.

APPLICATION TO THE RESILIENT MIND PROJECT

Our project has been most influenced by Dr. Crabb’s core insight: if we can create deep levels of engagement between people in our communities, resilience becomes a by-product. The Resilient Mind project’s primary focus is to create engagement in participants — which wards off stress.

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A well-known psychologist, Dr. Crabb was a conference and seminar speaker as well as a popular author and teacher focusing on counseling and ministry, with an emphasis on creating deeper engagement, community, and resilience. His books include Understanding People, The Marriage Builder, Finding God, Connecting, The Safest Place on Earth, Shattered Dreams, SoulTalk, and Fully Alive (2013). He earned a BS in Psychology from Ursinus College (1965), an MA in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois (1969), and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois (1970). A distinguished scholar in residence at Colorado Christian University, he also served as an adjunct professor at Regent College and directed the Psychological Counseling Center at Florida Atlantic University. He was associated with the American Psychological Association and licensed in the State of Colorado.
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