the resilience connection course
This training course includes a collection of how-to videos, printable exercises, and a variety of other resources to help individuals develop resilience. Specific information for parents is also available in the resilient parenting course. Both sections follow a three-step process to develop resilience: Validate, Assess, Support.
This series is not therapy. This information is not intended to replace individual care with a licensed professional. This course is designed to help you to make meaning out of the difficulties that you are facing and to inspire you to meet the challenges you encounter with strength and resilience.
The Resilience Connection Course includes a downloadable workbook, a frequently updated resource page, and 67 minutes of total content broken down into 5-10 minute videos that answer such questions as:
How do we offer validation to ourselves and to others in our lives?
How and when should we let things go or give ourselves a pass? When is it important to hold ourselves accountable? What boundaries do we need to set in our relationships?
What can we do to contribute to our resilience account? What habits reduce our capacity for resilience? How do expectations affect our resilience?
How do the concepts of grit and growth mindset relate to resilience?
What can I do when I am feeling overwhelmed with emotion?
What should I do when I am feeling stuck and can’t figure out the next step? How do I cope when I can’t solve a problem?
Resilience is pushing through when you feel like giving up,
but resilience is not perfection. Resilience is not winning at everything, overcoming everything. It is not solving unsolvable problems. Resilience is learning to swim and swimming like hell when life gets hard, but it is not denying when you are drowning. It is not denying that you need help.
The Resilient Parenting Course includes an additional downloadable workbook and resource list as well as 88 minutes of additional content on resilient parenting that covers such topics as:
Why it is important to parent with resilience: a review of the research on parenting styles and the effect of parenting on resilience.
Validation: what it is, and how to do it.
Strategies to determine when to step in and when to step back.
The concepts of grit and growth mindset and how they relate to resilience.
What is going on in the earlier stages of development: how to offer validation, assess situations, and provide support during this stage in a way that fosters resilience
Specific information on development during adolescence: strategies to offer validation, assess situations, and support adolescents.
Validating, assessing, and offering age-appropriate support to college age kids.
How to validate, assess, and support when kids are feeling stressed and worried. How to distinguish between helpful and unhelpful worry, and how to build good coping strategies
Who is this for:
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Any individual who is feeling stressed and overwhelmed. A person who is surviving but not thriving. Someone who may not need therapy at this time but could use some extra tools to help them face daily stressors and challenges.
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A parent who wants to raise their kids to face challenges with strength and resilience, who wants to learn specific strategies to promote mental wellness in their kids.
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A therapist looking for a psychoeducation resource for patients to support their individual work.
