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ResiliencyWarrior Resilience & Thriving

Chaplain Keith Andrewswww.chaplainandrews.com

Task Force RamPresentation Adapted from Warrior Resilience & Thriving (WRT)

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Thriving Through, Not Only Surviving

Your Combat Deployment to

Return with Honor

Resiliency

Insight # 1

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Expect and Prepare for

Adversity and Hardship

Resilient Character

Components

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Endurance

Resiliency

Character

Thriving

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Hardiness:Victory is not always external, but always internal.

Resiliency

Insight # 2

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Combat Operational Stress

and Reactions are Much More

Common Than PTSD

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20%

70%

met criteria for,

Depression

Anxiety, or PTSD,

(2003&2007)

will experience

some Combat

Operational

Stress

Resiliency

Insight # 3

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Adversity and Hardship Can

Strengthen our Character and

Build Resiliency

Think like a

Classical Warrior13

“Learning lessons in the school of

life is the antidote to feeling

victimized.”

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Five Responses to

Coping with Crisis

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1.Kindling

2.Suffering

3.Surviving

Ineffective Therapy Focus

4.Resilience

5.Thriving

Warrior Goals

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Resiliency results from

self-motivated, self-

managed learning

Resiliency

Insight # 4

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Warrior Ethos is Founded

on Character, Virtue and

Personal Discipline

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The Warrior Ethos refers to the professional attitudes and beliefs that characterize the American Soldier.

--FM 6-22 Army Leadership

Resiliency

Insight # 5

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Applying Insights of the Stoics and Self-coaching can Manage Combat, Operational, Team and Relationship Stress

The Stoic Warriors22

Will and Moral Purpose

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Rationality

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Adaptive Emotions

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RightActions

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• Activating Event

• Beliefs

• Consequences

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Warrior Self-coaching

Challenging

Irrational Beliefs28

Replacing

Irrational

Beliefs

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It is critical for leaders to remain

calm under pressure and

expend energy on things they

can positively influence and not

worry about things they cannot

affect. --FM 6-22 Army Leadership

Resiliency

Insight # 6

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Rationality Must be Practiced Daily To Defeat the “Internal Insurgents”

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Beware of the

INTERNAL

INSURGENTS

Where Resiliency, Thriving and

Post Traumatic Growth Reside:

Suicide is not an Option

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A

ASK

CARE

ESCORT

A

Resiliency

Insight # 7

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Resilient Families and Teams that Can Thrive Through Combat Deployments, Hardship and Adversity

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Distribute work fairly

and lead by personal example

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Tell the truth as they see it

Develop and share a family vision to

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Connect, Clarify and Commit to what

is really important

Chaplain Keith Andrews

Task Force Ram

www.chaplainandrews.com