How Parenting Will Test Your Resilience, with Hugh van Cuylenburg

Hugh van Cuylenburg is the founder of The Resilience Project, an organisation that provides mental health and wellbeing programs to schools, businesses and individuals. 

In this interview, Hugh explains how the key concepts of Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness (G.E.M.) can be applied to fatherhood and why being a parent is a great test of your resilience. 

Hugh also shares stories about his family, his relationship with his dad and what’s on the horizon for the Resilience Project. 

This is a fascinating chat with an inspirational person, who is also a passionate father of two young children. 

For any parents out there, I hope you enjoy this discussion as much as I did.

What you’ll learn 

• How dad’s become part of a brotherhood
• The challenges of managing a 'threeanger'
• How being a father has tested his resilience. 
• How being a father has changed Hugh’s relationship with his dad
• Hugh’s dad’s story – immigrating from Sri-Lanka to Australia by boat
• How men can either follow in their dad’s footsteps or choose to take a different route
• Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness – the three key tools for resilience  
• How Hugh practices gratitude with his 3-year-old son each night
• The results of the Resilience Project’s schools program 
• The Imperfects Podcast with Ryan Shelton 
• What’s on the horizon for The Resilience Project 
• Hugh’s next book – a sneak preview into what it might be about

More information
Show notes and links to the resources mentioned in this interview are available at https://thedadtrain.com/39