Resiliency Basics Patricia Morgan MA CCC Solutions for Resilience

Resilience means!

Ability to handle

adversity

change

loss

poor behaviour . . . of others . . .

and sometimes of yourself!

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1) A lesson in

Resilience.

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Stuff happens

My world is spinning!!!

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Some out of your control. You do not choose.

Some in your control. You choose.

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Sometimes you hang on.

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Sometimes you collapse.

Up

You Demonstrate RESILIENCE

when you are:

Up

or

2) Have and Be a Role Model.

Have a role model for inspiration.

Be a role model of personal

resilience in service of others.

Who is your Resilient Role Model? teacher? parent? neighbour? friend? hero? Lassie?

How did your role model become

stronger in the challenged places?

Who is watching YOU & might consider YOU their role model?

3) Develop an Internal Locus of Control

With the Hardy Belief I am in charge of my life.

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The last of human freedoms is

one’s ability to choose one’s

attitude in a given set of

circumstances.

Viktor Frankl

4) Edit

your

Thoughts.

Better keep yourself clean

and bright: you are the

window through which you

must see the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Let

Let’s discuss some dumb

thought habits and words. They lead to

jerky behaviours.

gossip

jealousy

criticism

name calling

perfectionism

territorial

contempt

sarcasm

blame

pessimism

What do you read?

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

If this were a test for optimism & pessimism, which is your tendency?

OPPORTUNITY IS NOW HERE? OR

OPPORTUNITY IS NOWHERE?

5) Take Yourself Lightly

What reasons do you have to smile?

Keep track of those reasons to increase your sense of gratitude.

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