ALEX MANOS HEALTH & PERFORMANCE
The Resiliency Program
Like never before have we needed to cultivate our resilience. Growing resilience enhances our ability to handle all that life throws at us: physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally (source).
Why You Should Complete The Resiliency Program
- As of 2018, 40% of children, 60% of adults under 65 and 90% of adults over 65 live with a chronic illness.
- 69-90% of the population will experience at least one traumatic event in their lives.
- Research shows that those with higher levels of resilience may be better able to practice self-care when faced with a chronic health condition.
- One important factor associated with successful adaptation to chronic conditions is resilience.
- Good resilience aggravates and prevents the onset of disease, provides good heath, facilitates and accelerates healing, and provides productive life and a sense of well-being despite chronic illness.
Loss of Resilience and Chronic Disease:
Studies reveal that individuals with lower physiological and psychological resilience are more likely to develop chronic conditions, including:
- Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, often triggered by prolonged stress or trauma.
- Cardiovascular diseases, with stress-related inflammation playing a key role.
- Cognitive decline, as chronic stress depletes the brain’s ability to repair and regenerate.
The Resiliency Program therefore will be beneficial for those wanting to achieve healthy ageing, and those suffering with a chronic health condition.
Understand it. Measure it. Improve It. Thrive In It.
“Good resilience aggravates and prevents the onset of disease, provides good heath, facilitates and accelerates healing, and provides productive life and a sense of well-being despite chronic illness.”
TESTIMONIALS
The Resiliency Program
Course Content
The Resiliency Program
Module 1 will introduce you to key concepts, and provide an overview of The Resiliency Program. We will introduce, define, and expand on:
- The Resiliency Quadrant: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
- Allostasis and allostatic load.
- Hormesis and a hormetic lifestyle.
- Vulnerability.
- Heart Rate Variability.
Through defining these terms, we will have a sound understanding of why resiliency is so important and why a lack of resilience may contribute to many of the chronic conditions which are at epidemic levels – from obesity and cardio-metabolic conditions to irritable bowel syndrome, and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s.
We will also evaluate our own resiliency via validated resiliency questionnaires and other assessments including biofeedback devices, as well as evaluate our perceived stress levels via validated questionnaires. These will be able to be repeated at the end of the Resiliency Program (and at any stage in the future) to monitor your resilience.
“The process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress.”
We will discuss how nutrition, sunlight and artificial light, exercise, intermittent fasting and cold/hot therapy (such as cold showers or sauna therapy) may enhance our resilience when used appropriately. We will dive in to psychoneuroimmunology to help our understanding of the mind-body connection and immune resilience.
Session One: Building gut microbiome resilience.
Session Two: Building immune resilience.
Session Three: Building brain resilience.
Session Four: Building mitochondrial resilience.
Session Five: The role of exercise in building resilience.
Session Six: Heart rate variability – an index of psychophysiological resilience.
Session Seven: Becoming resilient to environmental toxins.
Session Eight: Building a resilient nervous system.
Session Nine: Quantum health and resilience: light, water, magnetism.
Session Ten: Fasting and resilience.
“To be able to effectively set goals and consistently achieve them, without getting distracted. You see challenges, change, and adversity as opportunities rather than threats and thus are likely to be flexible and agile.”
In module three of The Resiliency Program we will discuss how we can enhance our mental resilience through specific exercises stemming from such modalities as cognitive behavioural coaching and mindfulness. We will explore:
Creating a list of our values so we can align our behaviour with what’s important for us.
We will also explore the importance of mastery, optimism and positive-psychology, and psychological flexibility – two key terms when discussing mental resilience.
Session One: Building psychological resilience.
Session Two: Positive psychology, optimism, and cognitive behavioural coaching.
Session Three: Mindfulness training: Intention, Attention, Attitude.
Session Four: Building resilience by improving our communication.
“The ability to generate positive emotion and the ability to recover from negative emotion.”
In module four of The Resiliency Program we will discuss the role that emotional regulation plays in enhancing our resiliency drawing on research from The Institute of HeartMath, the ‘Broaden and Build’ theory of emotions, and Shame Resilience Theory from Brene Brown. Exercises will be provided to support our ability to regulate our emotions. We will also touch on: gratitude, and the concept of savouring our experiences. We will also discuss relationships and the the concepts of family resilience and community resilience.
Session One: Introducing emotional resilience: what it is and how to improve it..
Session Two: Gratitude, and positive emotional states with Heartmath.
Session Three: Emotional suppression/repression, alexithymia and chronic health conditions. We will dive in to the work of experts such as Gabor Mate, Bessel Van De Kalk and Peter Levine.
Session Four: Self-esteem, coping strategies, emotional expression.
Session Five: Family resilience. Why this is so important and how to build it.
“Concerned with the internal life of mind and spirit and its association with being in the world. It implies a capability for a deep understanding of existential questions and insight into multiple levels of consciousness. In addition to self- awareness, it implies awareness of our relationship to the transcendent, to each other, to the earth and all beings. It enables one to maintain both internal and external peace and display love regardless of the circumstances whether stress or acute inconsistency. It could, therefore, help in conflict management and calm co-existence in the society.”
Session One: Journalling and creativity for resilience.
Session Two: Family Resilience.
Session Three: Relationship resilience.
Session Four: Breathwork for resilience.
Session Five: Psychedelics and resilience.
Confirmed Guest Speakers
Gavin Andrews
Gavin is the managing director of Heartmath in the U.K. We will be discussing emotional resilience, the Heartmath system, and the research that the Institute has conducted.
Jamie Clements
Jamie will be discussing the benefit of having a breathwork practice for building resilience. Jamie is co-founder of Breathwork Mastery.
James Dowler
James will be discussing the benefit of having a breathwork practice for building resilience.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I join The Resiliency Program any time?
Yes the program is a self-paced course so you can watch it at your own pace.
Are the sessions recorded?
Yes, all the content is recorded, and so you can watch the videos whenever you like.
How much time will this take up?
I recommend allowing one to one and a half hours per week for the program. Not every week will be relevant for your needs, and so there may be weeks you want to miss too.
Testimonial
“I’m going to get my point across straight away. I can honestly Alex Manos is a very inspirational, knowledgeable, understanding and very humble individual, this both reflects on his personality and his teachings as a coach.I wouldn’t remotely hesitate to advise him to my friends, family, co-workers or clients as I have an awful lot of trust in his teaching and confidence in his ability. To sum up Alex is a natural Role Model type individual that has his best interests in YOUR health, the goals YOU have set and the way YOU are feeling and functioning.”
Ricky G
About Alex: Founder Of The Resiliency Program
- A certified Functional Medicine Practitioner via The Institute Of Functional Medicine.
- A certified breathwork facilitator.
- A certified psychedelic guide.
- A personal trainer and performance enhancement specialist.
- A massage therapist.
- A transformational coach.
- MSc in Personalised Nutrition.
- A lecturer and mentor to other health professionals.
