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By Hilary Simon, Senior Manager, Social and Emotional Learning, 91吃瓜网
The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Team at 91吃瓜网 has partnered with University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Positive Psychology Center to implement an evidence-based Resilience and Well-being Skills Program at 91吃瓜网 and develop these skills within our entire learning community.听
The first round of training launched in March 2020 with a cohort of 750 people, and ongoing training continues to happen. Despite听all听the听challenges we faced nationally during this unprecedented time, our听outcomes听demonstrated increases in听overall wellbeing and听optimism听levels听and decreases in perceived stress levels. Participants also reported an 85 percent increase in self-awareness, 68 percent increase in adaptability, 75 percent increase in sense of connection to colleagues and a 61 percent increase in engagement with听work. Six months later,听follow-up scores demonstrate that participants have maintained resiliency. Not听only did they learn strategies that have helped them to manage challenge and stress,听but they have also听experienced lasting benefits from utilizing these strategies and mindsets.
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Ready to Move Forward on Your Own Journey to Resilience?
Ready to听move forward on your听own听journey to听resilience?听Start by recognizing the thoughts that听block听your way. Use听this simple听self-awareness听strategy听to听take control of听unhelpful听thoughts and听reframe听your mindset:听
1.听Catch It:听听Write down听all听the thoughts you have in response to a challenge you are facing.听
2.听Challenge听It:听 Examine what you wrote. Ask yourself if the thoughts are true. Are they always true? How likely are they to be true? How helpful are they?
3.听Change It:听Once you鈥檝e challenged the thoughts you can reframe them听to be more constructive.听听Here are some examples:听
- Unhelpful听Thought:听鈥渢his will never happen鈥澨�Reframe:听鈥淭he first thing I can do is...鈥澨�
- Unhelpful听Thought:听鈥淚 can鈥檛听鈥�"听Reframe:听鈥淚听need...鈥澨�
- Unhelpful Thought:听鈥淭hey won鈥檛...鈥澨�Reframe:听鈥淚 can...鈥澨�
- Unhelpful Thought:听鈥淚 know...鈥澨�Reframe:听鈥淚 wonder...鈥澨�
- Unhelpful Thought:听鈥漈his听is impossible...鈥澨�Reframe:听鈥淲hat am I missing?鈥澨�
- For most of us, shifting mindsets doesn鈥檛 happen听immediately. We develop our habits of thinking听over time, and so it takes time to create new habits. The good news is like any other听positive听habit,听we can strengthen it with the right intention and practice. Make a plan听to use the Catch It; Challenge It; Change It strategy daily for a week. See what shifts you notice in your ability to navigate difficult situations with more听resilience.听
Explore These SEL Resources
With help from Hilary Simon and team we are offering free, open, accessible resources on key topics to help you in your work with Social Emotional Learning, whether personal or professional, in your life or your school. This is just the beginning of the resources we will be sharing here in the Learning Community. You'll find many more valuable links throughout the year.
This issue brief, created by The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)听 with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, addresses the need for research, practice, and policy on social and emotional learning (SEL).
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Mindset Resources
Read this article from Phys.org to learn how a strategic mindset can be an important factor in success.
Dig in to Dweck鈥檚 work on creating a growth mindset. In this video she talks about the power of 鈥淵et鈥� in a school that gives students who have not passed an assessment a score of 鈥渘ot yet鈥� instead of failing.
Check out this list curated by Amy Erin Borovoy for Edutopia, including Carol Dweck鈥檚 The Power of Believing that You Can Improve.
Unclear about growth mindsets? This article from MindShift by Eduardo Brice帽o works to clear up some common confusion around the topic of growth mindset.
Here鈥檚 Carol Dweck again, this time in Edutopia talking about recognizing and overcoming false growth mindsets, including behaviors such as praising effort over progress.
Follow this link to a Mindset Kit for mentors and take a deep dive into 17 lessons that will leave you with a better understanding of what a growth mindset is and how to adopt one.
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Emotions and Self-Efficacy
The Mood Meter offers a tool for developing greater self-awareness as well as awareness of others, from Maria Kubitz for GreatSchools.org.
Check out this animated 2-minute video from Positive Psychology coach Derrick Carpenter. He shares two key tactics that defeat those negative thoughts.
This article opens with the statement, 鈥淚n order to effectively manage our emotions we must first learn how to accurately recognize them.鈥� See what Dr. Laura K. Schenck has to say about how to recognize your emotions.
Miriam Akhtar writes for Positive Psychology about self-efficacy and confidence, citing the work of Albert Bandura.
In this article, the American Psychological Association offers teaching strategies to help students build self-efficacy for various health behaviors.
Self-Reflection
Who doesn鈥檛 like a good self-assessment? Here are three assessments you can use to grow your self-awareness and practice self-reflection, or you may choose to use these with your staff or students.
Build on the assessments by linking to the websites that follow below. Each offers practical advice and practices to bolster self-reflection.
Writing for Healthy Place, Silke Morin discussing the power of deliberately thinking about your own behavior and beliefs.
In this Forbes article, author Naz Beheshti of Pause, Breathe, Choose, offers advice for building a daily self-reflection practice.
Jennifer Porter urges leaders to make the time for self-reflection and suggests they start by identifying key questions.
Resilience
The American Heart Association offers up the CEO Roundtable paper, Resilience in the Workplace: an Evidence Review and Implications for Practice. Read on to understand why all employers should care about resilience.
Writing for Positive Psychology, Courtney E. Ackerman, MA cites the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as defining individual resilience as 鈥渢he ability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from adversity and stress. Ackerman discusses the components of resilience including optimism, altruism, moral compass, and more, and then offers eight resilience scales that readers can use to gauge resilience.
Here鈥檚 a series of short videos from Kathryn McEwen and her work with Resilience TV, including a video that covers the seven different dimensions that enable people to build and sustain resilience.
In this episode of Bounce! Conversations with Larry Weeks, the host speaks with Dr. Lucy Hone on living with loss. In this poignant conversation about the worst times a human can experience, the two talk about how to 鈥減ick up the pieces and put what鈥檚 left of your life back together.鈥� As the podcast points out, this is an important listen for anyone who is grieving, but it is also a valuable tool for those who have not, so that they can better support those who are grieving.
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Empathy
Take a moment and watch this animated short video, then share it with your circle, coworkers or students. In this video with more than 17 million views, Bren茅 Brown talks about the important differences between sympathy and empathy.听
This webpage includes a self-assessment and other resources for developing your empathy.听听
By William A. Gentry, Todd J. Weber, and Golnaz Sadri. The best leaders are honing their social emotional skills including the ever-important ability to empathize. Knowing how can be the difference in whether your team thrives or not.
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