Webinar: Key Concepts for Mental Resilience

May 2025

May, 2025

Key concepts for mental resilience: Suffering and hope; Coherence and engagement; Eudaemonia and ataraxia

Key concepts for mental resilience:

Suffering and hope; Coherence and engagement; Eudaemonia and ataraxia

Date: Monday, 19 May 2025

Time: 16:00 UTC

Registration link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/0KKl7SInRdCM-omCt8u-bA

About the webinar

This session invites participants to reflect on key concepts that underpin the idea of mental resilience in both patients and clinicians. Drawing on philosophy, general practice, and lived experience, it will explore how we make sense of suffering, where we find hope, and how inner balance and personal meaning shape our ability to cope with adversity.

A conversation between WONCA leaders who’ve spent their lives caring for others, and thinking deeply about mental health.
An inquiry into the conceptual foundations of resilience, drawing on classical philosophy and contemporary frameworks.

Speakers

Professor Christos Lionis
Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health; Professor of Primary Care and Public Health at the University of Limassol, Cyprus; Professor Emeritus of the University of Crete
Professor Chris Dowrick
Chair of the MDD Minds project; Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool; General Practitioner at Aintree Park Group Practice; Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne; Past Chair of the WONCA Working Party on Mental Health
Hosted by Diarmuid Hayes, Senior Communications Officer for WONCA.

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