Building Resilience: A Counselor's Toolbox
A comprehensive program to understand, build, and apply resilience skills for yourself and your clients.
Program Modules
Understanding Resilience
Defining resilience and exploring its dynamic process. Elaboration on the definition within a counselor's context.
Daily Resilience Reflection
DailyReflect on resilience through different lenses each day.
Risk and Protective Factors
Identifying risk and protective factors influencing resilience. Emphasis on counselor-specific challenges.
Daily Protective Factor Boost
DailyEach day, identify and bolster a different protective factor.
The Six C's of Resilience
Exploring the internal assets contributing to resilience: coping, control, character, confidence, confidence, and connection. Applied to professional scenarios.
Weekly 'C' Focus
WeeklyDedicate each day of the week to a different 'C'.
Activities to Develop Resilience
Practical activities to enhance relationships, acceptance, goal setting, and a hopeful outlook. Adapted for professional life.
Daily Resilience Builder
DailyEngage in one daily activity promoting resilience.
Hardiness and Managing Adversity
Applying hardiness principles (commitment, control, challenge) when facing adversity. Creating a personal crisis plan.
Weekly Crisis Preparedness
WeeklyDedicate time each week to refine your crisis plan.
Learned Resourcefulness and Steps to Happiness
Cultivating learned resourcefulness and applying simple steps towards increasing happiness. Tailored to the counseling profession.
Weekly Happiness Boost
DailyFocus on happiness-inducing actions weekly.
What You'll Accomplish
- Define resilience and understand its dynamic nature within the context of counseling.
- Identify risk and protective factors influencing resilience, especially for counselors.
- Apply the Six C's of Resilience in personal and professional contexts.
- Implement practical activities to develop and enhance resilience skills.
- Apply hardiness principles and create a crisis plan for managing adversity.
- Cultivate learned resourcefulness and incorporate steps to happiness in daily life.
Full program access + updates