Dr Jane Foster | Why resilience is just like driving

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Discover why using a metaphor to take your complex emotions from an internal state to an external state can create an objective outlook and put you back in the driver's seat.

Dr Jane Foster has been a teacher/educator for over four decades, both in Australia and abroad. Throughout her career, she noticed how the pervasive culture of blame, criticism and judgement can be damaging and destructive. 

This realization inspired her to establish MYTERN, which has since evolved into Emotional Resilience (ER). 

In her doctoral research, Jane evaluated the effectiveness of ER with first-year university students, and the results were impressive. It increased students’ psychological well-being, life satisfaction and resilience, whilst decreasing their levels of psychological distress. 

Her book aims to share this life-saving skill with a wider audience.