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The Hardiness Concept |
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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
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You can learn to become
hardier |
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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).
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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. |
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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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Research

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