Resilience is defined as the ability to navigate adversity and grow through challenges. This presentation and discussion will focus on resilience and positivity. We will look at how gratitude is therapeutic, and how being present, making adjustments, and having a sense of purpose are building blocks of resilience. We will focus on the importance of staying positive and how we can identify internal and external resources to help us. We will consider lessons that we have learned during the pandemic.

About the instructor: Dr. Kathleen Fisher

Dr. Kathleen Fisher is a nurse educator and researcher at Drexel University. As a nurse and a nurse practitioner she has enjoyed working with many different groups of people including native Americans in Alaska and on the Hopi reservation, with migrant farmworkers from the eastern shore of Maryland, with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and with people experiencing homelessness. Dr. Fisher has collaborated with Drexel and Living Branches in dementia care strategy programming since 2017. She cherishes working with the residents and staff at Living Branches and has enjoyed using a “transformative, participatory action research approach.” She plans to complete a study on resilience at Living Branches.