Building Resiliency
- How to overcome stressors – Those with good resilience skills tend to overcome stressors in their life easier than those that don’t. So what is resilience?
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- Look at the different areas of health - cope and paste these onto a Keynote and rate the following from 1-10
10 being very good and 1 being not good!
- Physical – your actual body, illness, wellness, being fit.
- Mental/Emotional – learning, feelings, mental well-being
- Social – interactions with other people.
- Spiritual – links to mental /emotional, understanding of place in world, belief in higher being, finding meaning in life.
Website links
- For more information go to…
http://psychology.about.com/od/crisiscounseling/a/resilience.htm
Resilience skills, like all skills, can be learnt! Even just being aware of the elements of resilience can help a person deal with stressful times
http://psychology.about.com/od/crisiscounseling/tp/become-more-resilient.htm
http://stress.about.com/library/resilience/bl_resilience_quiz.htm
In partners based on your results, answer the following questions in each of your Keynote Presentations:
- Were the results expected or surprising? Why?
- What resilience skills are your strengths? (which ones are you already good at?)
- Which resilience skills do you need to work on?
Curtis Landers is inspirational young person who has displayed an amazing level of resiliency.
What makes him an inspiration? - answer and give pictures and written evidence to explain your answer (Keynote)
Create a Wordle with 'Curtis' name as the centre piece. Use the Wordle to describe his personal attributes.
What makes him an inspiration? - answer and give pictures and written evidence to explain your answer (Keynote)
Create a Wordle with 'Curtis' name as the centre piece. Use the Wordle to describe his personal attributes.
Extension- Use ICT mode of your choice to acknowledge the strength shown by Curtis in his recovery