RESUPERES.
What is RESUPERES?
Introduction
Resilience is the capacity of human beings to face adversity, to adapt and overcome tragedies, traumas, threats or severe stress. Being resilient does not mean not feeling discomfort, emotional pain or difficulty in the face of adversity (death of a loved one, serious illness, loss of a job, financial problems, etc.), but adopting a positive attitude towards it. Resilience involves a series of behaviours and ways of thinking that anyone can learn and develop as another area of their education. So, resilience could be taught, learned and trained (Robertson et al., 2015).
Interest in resilience has fluctuated over the last half century, but it is now emerging in many fields of research for several reasons. On the one hand, there is a widespread alarm about the increasing threats from natural and technological disasters, pandemics, terrorism and political conflicts around the world (Masten 2014, 2021). For a year and a half, we have been suffering a serious global pandemic (COVID-19), in which we are observing and checking that an attitude of overcoming and resilience in the face of these adversities will help to manage and confront each situation with a greater positivity. Furthermore, we can observe how this resilient management of situations is mainly benefited when we develop experiences in areas such as the arts, performing arts, culture and physical activity (Cepero, 2021).
Resilence and RESUPERES
As far as we concern, resilience has not been explicitly worked to forge the personality of individuals in educational fields. Thus, we find the need to establish training on resilience which helps the participants in this study, students and teachers, to face problems, have a critical and positive attitude and overcome any adversity. Therefore, it is necessary to work on resilience in the development stages that precede the consolidation of our students' personalities, hence the present project is focused on higher education, specifically at the university, although with a vision of extrapolation to the whole society of Europe and the World.
Therefore, a Pilot Study is proposed with an Intervention Programme based on artistic, scenic, cultural and physical-sports activities, in order to go in depth in the improvement of resilient factors, constructs and attitudes, by measuring the impact of this programme on this aspect of the personality, aimed both at teachers and students.
The expected results will involve the creation of means that provide tools for overcoming situations such as the one emerged by COVID-19, with the aim of develop a programme for the dissemination of good practices in university teachers and students (RESUPERES SPREAD. I RESUPERES Workshop-Seminar, creating new audiovisual tools which able the online formal education of resilience [Website, App, Toolkit, multimedia products]) through a RESUPERES Pilot Study, as well as the creation of the I RESUPERES International Congress. However, one of the most ambitious results is the creation and implementation of a RESUPERES subject, which develops resilience in the university context, within the different university degrees. Supporting a subject that helps students of any degree to develop resilience capacities and competences, such as self-concept, self-esteem, teamwork, leadership, etc., which will accompany them in all the stages of their life. Subsequently, it will be extrapolated to all levels of the educational community at a European and international level.