Description

As adults we face many challenges. Sometimes life knocks us down. But we all want to be healthy and happy, and adult caregivers need to successfully manage their own stress as they support children facing their own challenges. How do we get back up and keep going?

People who can bounce back from hard times have resilience – strong protective abilities that help them succeed, despite the odds.

Through small-group activities, lecture, and personal reflection, we'll explore the topic of resilience while learning practical ways to strengthen our protective abilities. We'll focus on several aspects of our lives in which we can learn tools to help us be resilient, including relationships, our internal beliefs about ourselves, the strength of our self-control, and our ability to initiate. For example, in our discussion of relationships, we'll talk about how it helps us to have someone who's like a mentor.

We hope you'll leave this session with a better sense of how you can build your own resilience – as well as the benefits to the children in your care, who will model their responses to stress on the adults they see every day. Come learn about how to “build your bounce” with us!