Planning for Resilience on Placement (PROP): a prevention and wellness tool

This workshop aims to offer an experiential introduction to an approach where students create and manage their own plans for developing personal resilience, in anticipation of forthcoming challenging periods of learning and development. In a student-led, practical, case-based session, delegates will discover what goes in the plans, and how they are used for support. Participants will also be able consider how this approach may apply in their own contexts through engaging in discussion with students and staff who co-created and evaluated a pilot project based around the plans. Although illustrated here as applied to placement learning in health profession education, this approach offers tremendous potential across higher education, developing the desirable graduate attributes of self-knowledge, personal agency and active engagement with available supports. Wider applications include planning for resilience on any type of work-based learning, on study abroad and internship opportunities, on group projects, and for the relative independence of online learning, dissertation study or career development.