I’m obsessing about resilience.
If you’ve been reading this blog, you have seen Dr. Tim Elmore’s survival and thrival list:
- Resilience
- Resourcefulness
- Respect
To which I added:
- Responsibility
Observing our emotional, physical, spiritual, vocational, business atmosphere, resilience is a prime need.
Our long-time friend, David Mitchell now in South Carolina, is a student counselor. He appreciates Tim Elmore’s work, so he sent me a webinar link about building resilience. He said,
“I’m not always a huge fan of webinars, but this one has a lot of practical and useful information for ALL teachers—especially for those teaching virtually.”
Link to the webinar is below.
The resilience need is not just for students. Resilience skills are needed for all of us these days. The webinar instructor gives 5 components to build resilience:
- Connection
- Security
- Achievement
- Autonomy
- Fulfillment
Are those not components of a Jesus Follower? They are also what is under attack in the Pandemic and rioting, attack on the justice system and our personal well-being. A public figure was described as having a “healthy inner life.” Remembering our research on attacking anxiety and stress-management, these were chapter titles. I question whether we can maintain a healthy inner life unless we pay attention to these five. Any family disruption shakes or shatters the foundation of our resilience. If we heal from disruption or dissolution, we will have re-established or reinforced the five building blocks of personal wholeness.
David guides us in reference to the presentation:
“If you’d like to watch the whole thing, skip to 5:40 to get past the intros, etc. The best part is a 17 min window between 28:00 and 45:15 on restoring resilience in our students. Three concepts to know if you start at 28:00:
- Due to COVID, it has changed from MANY students are impacted by trauma to NEARLY ALL students are impacted by trauma.
- The goal is to move from being trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive to being trauma-skilled. 3. They liken trauma to a brick wall for students. We often can’t take it away or knock it down, but we can help them learn ways around or over it.”
The seventeen minutes were helpful. I invite you to invest 17. Thanks
https://home.edweb.net/webinar/differentiate20200909/
The link will ask for email address. David says, “If you aren’t an edWeb member, feel free to use my email address to be able to view it.” <mitchelld@gwd50.org
D. Dean Benton Wonderer, Writer, Worker on resilience
Benton Quest House 