BUILDING RESILIENCE

Difference between individual and team resilience

Resilience is not only a personal quality, but also an emergent property of groups.

Individual resilience refers to the athlete's ability to use his or her personal resources to protect him or herself from the negative effect of stressors.

Team resilience, on the other hand, is the ability of the group to maintain its functioning and performance under stress, repairing and adapting collectively in the face of deterioration.

An example of individual resilience would be a marathon runner who, upon suffering a cramp at kilometer 35, adjusts his or her technique and internal dialogue to continue running to the finish line.

On the other hand, team resilience is observed in a soccer team that suffers an early expulsion and is left with 10 players.

Instead of falling apart, the group reorganizes tactically, increases communication and defensive solidarity ("one runs for the other"), managing to maintain the draw thanks to this coordinated response to adversity.

The role of the facilitating environment (challenge + support)

To develop a resilient mindset, the training environment must be carefully designed.

According to the challenge-support model, optimal growth occurs in a facilitative environment where there is a high level of challenge (demand) combined with a high level of support.

If there is only challenge without support, the athlete burns out (unforgiving environment); if there is a lot of support without challenge, he or she stagnates (comfortable environment). Think of a high-performance tennis academy.

A facilitating environment would be one where the coach requires the player to improve his backhand by pitting him against the best servers (high challenge), but at the same time provides him with detailed video analysis, patience for errors, and positive reinforcement when he shows effort (high support).

The player knows that much is expected of him, but also feels he has a safety net and the tools necessary to reach those standards, which fosters courage and resilience.

Here you have the development of the points corresponding to Topic 9: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) - Fundamentals, applying the modification of examples and the required citation system.

Summary

Resilience is not only individual, but an emergent property of teams. Collective resilience is the ability of the group to maintain its functioning under pressure, reorganizing and adapting together in the face of adversity.

The development of this quality requires a carefully designed facilitative training environment. Optimal growth occurs by combining a high level of challenge and demand with a high level of support and resources.

If there is only challenge without support, the athlete burns out; if there is too much support without challenge, he or she stagnates. A balanced environment fosters courage, allowing the athlete to achieve high standards with psychological safety.