No matter who you are or where you are in your career, embracing a growth mindset and building your mental resilience is essential. Not just for us as individuals but for our tenants, our teams and our own professional development. That's why, for this year’s presidential campaign Julie Haydon has developed Rooted in Resilience.
Over the next year, Julie’s Rooted in Resilience campaign will examine how we can ensure our mental resilience and mindset enables us to thrive in a sector facing ongoing change and challenge.
Building on the foundation of the mental health campaign, Shine a Light, Julie’s campaign will focus on what helps us stay strong, healthy and well, and will be committed to the life-changing work we do every day.
Your mental wellbeing and resilience should always be a personal priority, but it should also be a professional necessity.
The Rooted in Resilience campaign will champion mental wellbeing and support housing professionals to thrive – not just survive.
Encouraging individuals and organisations to create positive cultures using the tools at our fingertips – building on the Shine a Light resources – to build a more compassionate, confident, and connected sector.
A growth mindset views challenges as opportunities for learning and growth, with a determination to persist in the face of setbacks. It recognises that abilities and intelligence can be developed with effort, feedback and persistence. In housing, where we navigate complexity, trauma, change, and challenge daily, this mindset helps us to stay curious, build capacity, and remain open to learning.
Over the course of her presidential campaign, Julie will be encouraging organisations and individuals to consider the differences a growth mindset can make and how to embed this culture into their day-to-day working lives and professional development.
The Rooted in Resilience campaign will support housing professionals to shift from a survival mindset to one that thrives on learning and collaboration. It will offer practical tools and inspiration to embed a growth mindset into personal development, team culture, and leadership practice – so we can better service our communities whilst supporting one another.
Rooted in Resilience will encourage confidence and inclusivity across the sector to ensure all professionals feel valued and supported.
Over the course of the campaign, Julie will encourage us all to examine how we can tap into our personal strength, peer support, professional development and sector networks to enhance our mental health and wellbeing.
Supporting a thriving sector is also about ensuring the next generation of housing professionals are equipped with the mental resilience required to develop and succeed in housing. Working with CIH Futures, the Rooted in Resilience campaign will highlight the importance of intergenerational perspective and the powerful role mentoring can play.
A growth mindset fuels this vision creating a culture of continuous improvement, where learning is embraced and fear of failure never holds us back. This shift begins with individuals but grows stronger when leaders, teams and organisations believe in everyone’s potential to adapt, learn and thrive.
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Join us as we collectively build resilience in housing.
Discover how we can create positive cultures, embedded with mental resilience, to build a more compassionate, confident, and connected sector.
Mind
Julie has also chosen to raise money for Mind, a charity dedicated to ensuring no one goes through mental ill health alone. Their work helps millions of people get the support and information they need, when they need it.
Mind operates across England and Wales and aligns with SAMH in Scotland and Inspire in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. You can find out more about how to support Julie’s UK wide fundraising campaign on this give wheel fundraising site.
