"Emotional resilience" is the ability to recover your benevolent universe perspective after experiencing painful emotions.

The more resilience you have, the more challenging situations you can handle without needing to suppress temporarily or take a timeout.

First we'll review how you recover your benevolent universe perspective in theory. (Hint: DWMM, drawing on self-esteem, self-direction.)

Then we'll talk about the practical problems that come up in trying to do this, to normalize the problems that you will run into from time to time. (Hint: The problems stem from lack of knowledge, insufficient skill, and/or out-of-context fears due to anti-values.)

Based on this discussion, we'll do an in-class exercise in which you will assess your level of emotional resilience so you can factor that into your plans. Accepting your present capacity of emotional resilience is important for setting realistic goals and creating a virtuous cycle of success.

Finally, we will discuss how an objective assessment of your own emotional resilience can help you grow your emotional resilience. We'll end with a discussion of daily practices that can aid this.

As a reference, I encourage you to read the Emotional Resilience Tool in advance.