Resilience is a key character strength that must be practised and learnt. Only through experience can we learn, develop and improve.
Resilience... Complete an online resilience quiz:
How Resilient Are You?
https://www.verywell. com/quiz-how-resilient-are you-4008851.
- Reflect: How accurate do you think the results of this quiz are? What aspects do you agree/disagree with?
- Write about someone you think is a good coach or mentor who helped you to master a skill.
- Explaining who the coach is, what the skill was and what the coach did or said that made them a good coach.
Stuck on an Escalator
https:// www.youtube.com/ watch?v=VrSUe_m19FY
This clip shows examples of unhelpful thinking and that sometimes our thinking patterns are ‘stuck in a rut’, or fixed, preventing us from developing positive solutions.
- Identify a difficult situation you are experiencing.
- Draw some thought bubbles containing any fixed, ‘stuck in a rut’ thoughts you have been experiencing, leaving some space underneath each thought bubble.
- Then, write a new more helpful thought underneath each bubble.