“In the context of exposure to significant adversity, resilience is both the capacity of individuals to navigate their way to the psychological, social, cultural, and physical resources that sustain their well-being, and their capacity individually and collectively to negotiate for these resources to be provided in culturally meaningful ways.” (see also Ungar, 2008 and Ungar, 2011).

Research shows that everyone has the potential for resilience. By this we mean being able to navigate to child-related resources and environmental-related resources that are important for the person in dealing with difficult events. Cultivating the complex interactions between these divers resources in cultivating resilience in children, youth and families, form the main activities of the Resilience Expertise Center. The Resilience Expertise Center honors a vision of humanity by which we believe that humanity has the fundamental task of dealing with the dynamics and complexity of life. To be part of an ever changing environment in an authentic way, being able to connect with others and coping with difficult events is central here.