​ We believe that, in situations of difficulty, people find the strength to recover, by appealing to their internal and external resources. This ability is called resilience.

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Originally used in the field of physics to describe the resistance of materials to shocks, the term resilience in the psychosocial field represents the ability to adapt and resume walking in adverse circumstances. The adversities referred to can take different forms, physical or moral: the death of a loved one, illness, family separation, loss of home, abandonment of the country, natural disasters, conditions of extreme poverty or vulnerability. 

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The inherent human capacity to overcome adversity can use the support of 'guardians of resilience' as well as of symbolic places of affection, activities and opportunities for dialogue that allow people to take back their lives with the courage needed to look to the future.

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Through training courses and laboratories studied by RIRES, the Research Unit on Resilience of the Catholic University, we act so that people know how to appeal to their resilience capacity, to transform pain into a new starting point.