Task Force Ram Resiliency Training. Giving to Soldiers Redeploying from Iraq of the subject of "Thriving through, not only surviving a combat deployment." Based on the Materials presented on warrior resiliency by Thomas Alan Jarrett, LCSW, DCSW.

1. Resiliency
Warrior Resilience & Thriving
Chaplain Keith Andrews
www.chaplainandrews.com
Task Force Ram
Presentation Adapted from Warrior Resilience & Thriving (WRT) 1

2. Thriving Through,
Not Only Surviving
Your Combat Deployment to
Return with Honor
2

3. Resiliency
Insight # 1
Expect and Prepare for
Adversity and Hardship
3

4. Resilient Character
Components

5. Endurance
5

6. Resiliency

7. Character

8. Thriving

9. Hardiness:
Victory is not always external,
but always internal. 9

10. Resiliency
Insight # 2
Combat Operational Stress
and Reactions are Much More
Common Than PTSD
10

11. 20%
met criteria for,
Depression
Anxiety, or PTSD,
(2003&2007)
70%
will experience
some Combat
Operational
Stress
11

12. Resiliency
Insight # 3
Adversity and Hardship Can
Strengthen our Character and
Build Resiliency
12

13. Think like a
Classical Warrior
13

14. “Learning lessons in the school of
life is the antidote to feeling
victimized.”
--Dr. Al Siebert 14

15. Five Responses to
Coping with Crisis

16. Ineffective Therapy Focus
1.Kindling
2.Suffering
3.Surviving
16

17. Warrior Goals
4.Resilience
5.Thriving

18. Resiliency results from
self-motivated, self-
managed learning
18

19. Resiliency
Insight # 4
Warrior Ethos is Founded
on Character, Virtue and
Personal Discipline 19

20. The Warrior Ethos
refers to the
professional attitudes
and beliefs that
characterize the
American Soldier.
--FM 6-22 Army Leadership
20

21. Resiliency
Insight # 5
Applying Insights of the Stoics and
Self-coaching can Manage Combat,
Operational, Team and Relationship
Stress
21

22. The Stoic Warriors
22

23. Will and
Moral Purpose
23

24. Rationality
24

25. Adaptive
Emotions
25

26. Right
Actions
26

27. Warrior Self-coaching
• Activating Event
• Beliefs
• Consequences
27

28. Challenging
Irrational Beliefs
28

29. Replacing
Irrational
Beliefs
29

30. 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
30

31. Resiliency
Insight # 6
Rationality Must be Practiced
Daily To Defeat the “Internal
Insurgents”
31

32. Beware of the
INTERNAL
INSURGENTS
32

33. Where Resiliency, Thriving and
Post Traumatic Growth Reside:
Suicide is not an Option
33

34. A
ASK
CARE
ESCORT
A

35. Resiliency
Insight # 7
Resilient Families and Teams
that Can Thrive Through
Combat Deployments,
Hardship and Adversity 35

36. Distribute work fairly
and lead by personal example
36

37. Tell the truth as they see it
37

38. Develop and share a family vision to
Preserve Family cohesion and pride
38

39. Connect, Clarify and Commit to what
is really important 39

40. Chaplain Keith Andrews
Task Force Ram
www.chaplainandrews.com