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Master resilience trainers help Team Scott

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  • By Staff Sgt. Teresa Jennings
  • Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill --  Officials placed Comprehensive Airman Fitness as a priority for all Airmen, family members, and civilians to enhance performance and build resiliency.

As a result, Team Scott incorporated resilience training curriculum in all levels of professional enhancement seminars.

Senior Master Sgt. Ronnie Tabor, master resilience trainer, said he is excited to offer this training as it, "teaches individuals skills to not only get through a challenging situation or event, but to bounce back while growing stronger in the process."

Tabor said one component of this new initiative was the development of an Air Force-aimed resilience training program built on concepts developed at the University of Pennsylvania.

"The resilience curriculum is designed to help those trained to bounce back when facing adversity and daily challenges," he said. "People don't always know what form adversity will take.

"The charge for people is to train their minds and bodies to expect challenging events to occur across their lives and then understand how to effectively face the event in order to continue to thrive in both their personal and professional lives," he added. "The skills taught in Scott's resilience training will allow attendees to do just that."

University of Pennsylvania trained MRTs serve as the core of the resilience training program, and they are instructed in the critical-thinking skills that are proven to increase the core competencies of resilience: self awareness, self-regulation, optimism, mental agility, strengths of character, and connection. Tabor, Master Sgt. Kimberly Freeman and Lt. Commander Julie Chodacki have attended this training and serve as the lead trainers.

Resilience training teaches individuals to envision challenges as temporary, to think of them as local not global, and that challenges can be changed by personal effort.

The University of Pennsylvania's resilience instruction materials and format have been modified and tailored for use in the Air Force. All Scott first term Airmen receive eight hours of training at the First Term Airman Center and the curriculum is added to the quarterly Airman, NCO and SNCO professional enhancement seminars.