Building Resilience: Navigating Life's Waves
A program designed to help you understand and build resilience, enabling you to cope with challenges and thrive in the face of adversity. Inspired by an interview with Claire, head of student counseling and mental health advice service.
Program Modules
Understanding Resilience
Explore the definition of resilience and its importance in navigating life's challenges. This module builds the foundation for understanding the subsequent modules by introducing core concepts.
Reflect on Past Challenges
DailyThink about times you've overcome adversity. Acknowledge your strength in navigating those experiences. This ties into habit formation by starting with a familiar reflection activity.
“Think about yourself... Have you ever had to overcome adversity?”
Recognize Your Resilience
DailyAcknowledge that facing challenges builds resilience, even if you're still struggling. Promotes positive self-talk and reinforces resilience as an achievable trait.
“If you're here today you would have had to overcome some challenging obstacles in your life already and that in itself builds and develops resilience.”
Building Your Resilience Toolkit
Learn practical strategies to strengthen your resilience, focusing on awareness, acceptance, and positive thinking. This module builds upon module 1. Actions should be less frequent in the initial stage
Acknowledge Rubbish Happens
WeeklyAccept that life isn't perfect and challenges are inevitable. Based on the 'Rubbish Happens' quote, this step encourages acceptance.
“Resilient people know that rubbish happens.”
Identify Harms and Helps
WeeklyBecome aware of what negatively and positively impacts your well-being. Based on the second recommendation, this action aims to increase self-awareness.
“Resilient people are aware of what harms them and what helps them.”
Tune into the Good
DailyPractice shifting your focus towards positive thoughts and experiences. Directly addresses the 'tuning into the good' recommendation.
“Resilient people have a way of tuning in to the good.”
Riding the Waves: An Analogy for Resilience
Understand resilience as learning to surf the waves of life, both big and small. Integrates the surfing analogy and the shifting focus video from the source material. Requires module two to have been completed
Visualize Your Waves
WeeklyImagine past and present challenges as waves you are learning to navigate. Connects to the surfing analogy and encourages practical application.
“Think about resilience a bit like the ocean... we have to learn to be a little bit like a surfer.”
Practice Shifting Focus (Bonus Video)
WeeklyWatch Claire's extra video, 'Shifting Your Focus,' and practice the exercise. Emphasizes the shifting focus exercise highlighted in the original interview.
“She has actually created for us an extra video called shifting your focus and this is a short video it's an exercise to do that can really practically help us build resilience.”
What You'll Accomplish
- Understand the concept of resilience and its importance.
- Identify personal strengths and challenges related to resilience.
- Develop practical strategies for building resilience.
- Cultivate a positive mindset and shift focus from negative to positive.
- Learn to navigate life's challenges with greater ease and confidence.
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