To specify and clarify the linkage between resilience in personal life and resilience in work contexts, the current study adopts a dynamic and processual approach in an exploratory study involving five cases of people living stressful events in personal and work settings. This exploration reveals a three-factor process of building resilience: personal resilience formation, evolution of professional trajectory, and strengthening resilience at work. Managing stressful event in personal lives facilitates the management of stressful events in work contexts, through the transposition of sources of individual resilience, which occurs through multiple mechanisms. The nature of the sources of resilience and the depth of the individual transformation after a stressful event depend on the magnitude of that stressful event, which in turn influences how people manage stressful events at work. Keywords: resilience, personal life, work context, mechanisms, process.
