Talking About Resilience – Wellbeing

Name: Talking About Resilience - Wellbeing
SKU: WB1-2
Availability: InStock

Description

Resilience has been described as ‘the capacity to bounce back from adversity’ and there is an increasing awareness that building resilience in young people can lead to better outcomes for them in the future. This Talking About Resilience pack focuses on resilience, offering a highly visual approach to facilitate discussion among young people which makes it appropriate to use with secondary school students of a wide ability range.

This ‘Talking About Resilience’ pack allows professionals to engage with young people, to help develop essential resilience and problem solving skills. Adolescence is a real window of opportunity to teach new skills, capabilities and strategies to support young people to maintain good mental health in adult life.

For more information see below.

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This is a large resource which follows a similar format to our popular Talking About range Resilience: a scenario or dilemma is depicted, accompanied by four possible responses to that situation … some appropriate, some not! The full colour pictures are provided with a full narrative script for the adult to use, discussion topics and extension activities which aim to facilitate wider debate and problem solving.

Talking About Resilience can be used in a one-to-one setting with individual students, but is more appropriate for small group work in order to encourage exchanges of ideas and promote discussion.

Many young people experience a wide range of challenges – some very serious, but also the more ‘everyday’ stresses such as family and peer relationship difficulties and academic pressures. The more resilient a young person is, the more effectively they can react to such stresses by exhibiting strengths such as bravery, adaptability and problem-solving skills. Adolescence is a good time to promote resilience. Human brains develop more rapidly during this period than at any other time apart from the first three years of life.

Scenarios and extension activities in the pack cover topics which include:

Dealing with disappointment
A long-term, difficult challenge
Dealing with failure
Dealing with stress and panic
Dealing with grief
Making big changes in your life
Dealing with challenges/ambition
Finding it difficult to make friends
Sudden and extreme changes
Taking on huge responsibility

Full instructions for use are included, along with guidance on establishing group rules. An introductory session also gives an overview of resilience along with exercises to help the students identify what resilience is, everyday challenges which may need resilience and strategies to help support resilience.

Age: 11+ years

Format: PDF file, Available as a download, 111 pages. Introductory pages – 8 pages, Group rules – 5 pages, Introduction to resilience activities – 12 pages, 10 Scenarios with extension activities – 47 pages, Appendix 1, optional activities – 7 pages, Appendix 2, black and white duplicates for printing – 33 pages.

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Scenarios include:

Dealing with disappointment – Ava really enjoys playing netball. Her Year Group is entering a team for a local schools competition. The team has been announced and put on the notice board. Ava hasn’t been picked! It’s not fair! She’s been to all the practice sessions after school and has been working hard to improve her fitness in her own time.
Dealing with failure -It’s Jordan’s mum’s birthday and he wants to make a special cake as a surprise. He spent a lot of time – and money – making it … but it’s turned out really badly.