Ready and Resilient (R2) gives people a foundation to build and sustain personal readiness and resilience. R2 provides training and education resources to active-duty military, reservists, guard members, Family members and DA Civilians at 32 R2 Performance Centers Army-wide. Strengthening Soldiers and enhancing personal readiness offers the greatest opportunity to increase unit cohesion and achieve positive outcomes.

Resilience is the ability to persevere, adapt and grow in dynamic or stressful environments. Resilience encompasses internal motivation and persistence and how Soldiers revitalize, recover and adapt constructively to challenges in their daily lives. Training and education empower leaders and Soldiers to demonstrate resilience. When individuals apply these skills, they can build cohesive teams and drive readiness.

Readiness is the ability and willingness to perform an assigned task or mission.

Resilience drives personal readiness, and personal readiness relies on Five Dimensions of Personal Readiness, sometimes called pillars: physical, emotional, social, spiritual and family.

Physical, emotional, social, spiritual and family. click here to leare more

R2 Performance Centers provide customized performance training and education resources so active-duty military, reservists, guard members, Family members and DA Civilians can build and sustain personal readiness and resilience.

There are 32 R2 Performance Centers across the Army. Find your nearest location here

Engage is a scientifically validated Army professional skill designed to emphasize Soldiers’ duty and obligation to engage when alerted to a deviation from the norm or standard. Engage serves as a core skill Soldiers can adapt to meet the annual training requirement for Ask, Care, Escort (ACE) and Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) training.

R2 Performance Centers offer customized resilience and performance enhancement training to help build resilient leaders and Soldiers who can overcome and recover from everyday stressors and major life events, adapt to change and thrive under new conditions.

Soldiers who use performance and resilience skills deliberately and consistently have enhanced personal readiness, resilience and optimized performance leading to greater unit and mission readiness.

R2 Performance Centers provide customized performance and resilience training and education to enable Soldiers to sustain personal readiness, enhance resilience, optimize human performance and build unit cohesion. Training is available to active-duty military, reservists, guard members, Family members and DA Civilians at 33 centers Army-wide. Visit here for information.

Resilience in Focus is a series of quick resilience-building tools and infographics that cover common challenges like how to make stress work for you, how to become more optimistic, how to cultivate mindfulness and how to stick to your goals. Explore more topics here.