The Hardiness Concept

Personality hardiness emphasizes key attitudes and resources that motivate you to transform stressful living changes that arise from the roles you play, or living transitions such as marriage, births, deaths, divorce, return to school, career shift, illness in self or others, retirement, or geographic relocation.  Our attitudes about the change, as well as our ability to access inner resources that help us to effectively manage it, determine, to a large degree, how we handle it. The fewer stresses we have at any point in time, the easier it is for us to positively turn around the change.  Today, however, our lives are so complex, that most of us cope daily with many stressful changes.  Even the hardiest of us can feel weary under such pressure.

 
You can learn to become hardier

The Hardiness concept of Performance, Leadership, and Health Enhancement, underlies the Hardiness Institute's approach to helping individuals and groups to effectively manage rapid changes.  Whether or not you are low in hardy characteristics, life�s challenges require that we continually strengthen hardiness attitudes and resources to help us turn adversity into opportunity for new learning, growth, and personal renewal. The research is clear, hardier individuals and groups take the lead in change, show greater performance, leadership, morale, conduct, and health than those low in personality hardiness (see the Hardiness Publication Link).

If you want to continue to thrive in changing times, you need to evaluate how you currently manage stressful living changes. Our HardiSurvey® evaluates the stress you currently labor under, its impact on your physical, mental, and behavioral well-being, the way you cope with such changes, and the quality of your hardiness resources for helping you to resist the negative effects of stressful changes   (see the HardiSurvey® Test link; you can take the test right now).  

 Our HardiTraining® program grew out of twenty-five years of our hardiness research and practice (see the HardiTraining® link). This training helps you to develop and strengthen hardiness attitudes and coping resources that help you turn adversity to advantage.  We have Certified Hardiness Trainers (CHT™) throughout the country that can help train you in our award-winning approach to managing personal and professional change. 


HARDI PUBLICATIONS

Researchers continue to investigate the relevance of the Hardiness concept to their milieu.  These environments encompass medicine, organizations, academia, public safety, sport, military, and family.
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