Resilience Matters is a trading name of Beaumont Training & Consultancy Ltd.
Registered in England No: 6750658.
Registered Office: 4 Bramcote Drive, Nottingham, NG8 2NH.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
resilience matters
People frequently comment on my company name – Beaumont, and many have asked if it’s of French origin. It is indeed a family name and I chose it for my company because it’s a whole lot shorter and easier to pronounce than my own surname!. No, seriously, I am passionate about genealogy, and it is a family surname going back many centuries of Huguenot silk-weavers. But more importantly, I wanted to pay homage to my grandmother, Eda Eva Beaumont, because her strength of character inspired me.
Researching a fire in the family home in the 1930s, I discovered newspaper articles praising my grandmother for her actions during that potentially fatal event. They described her as a “heroine”, because she acted decisively to rescue her young family from a burning house. She carried out her heroic rescue by battling her way up to the second floor bedroom, seizing her young children, and throwing them one by one out of the window! (Just for the record, she had already thought to call out to neighbours and have them place a large basket underneath the window). Although one child suffered some burns and another fell out of the basket and had slight concussion, the end result was that they were all saved. Interviewed by newspaper journalists, my grandmother modestly stated that she had chosen this risky course of action because she remembered that the previous week a family had lost their lives when they were unable to escape from the upstairs rooms of a similar neighbourhood house.
And that for me sums up the key concepts of Resilience – the ability to act decisively under pressure, learn from past mistakes, and prioritise what’s really important to you.
My grandmother was widowed in her 40s and brought up nine children alone, never complaining about her sort but always keeping a bright smile on her face. The ability to maintain a positive mindset in times of challenge is a key feature of Resilience. And that is why the training branch of Beaumont is called Resilience Matters – because it really does!
My grandmother passed away many years ago, but I will always be grateful for the short time she was in my life, and for the joy she brought into every birthday she celebrated with us. So if you liked this story, tell me who or what you are grateful for ....... because being grateful for what we have in life is one of the first steps in growing Resilience.
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