About This Event

Later life can bring significant change, including retirement, bereavement, health challenges, changing relationships and shifts in identity and purpose. Building resilience is not simply about coping with adversity, but also about developing the resources that help us maintain wellbeing and thrive.

This interactive workshop explores resilience and wellbeing in later life, with a particular focus on the importance of building and strengthening wellbeing capital — the personal, relational and emotional resources we can draw on when facing life’s challenges.

Participants will consider how counsellors and therapists can support older clients to recognise their strengths, build connection and meaning, develop self-compassion, and invest in the resources that support wellbeing over time.

Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event

• • Understand the relationship between resilience, ageing and wellbeing.

• • Identify key components of wellbeing capital and why they matter in later life.

• • Recognise opportunities within therapeutic work to help older clients build their wellbeing capital.

Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?

Any counsellors, therapists or trainees working with older clients

How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?

Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to strengthen wellbeing capital as a therapeutic resource, enabling them to incorporate resilience-building approaches into their work with older clients.