Discovering Resiliency
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
What's
in my wallet? Have
participants pair up and sit knee to knee.
Have them share one thing they have in their
purse or wallet, or on their person, that is connected in some way to
their personal resiliency. They
should show the object and explain how it connects to their resiliency.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Naming
others' Have
participants pair up and sit with another pair.
Resiliency
Builders Each person
introduces his/her partner by identifying at least one personal resiliency
builder the partner has (see handout) and share why this resiliency builder
describes the partner.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Who
and What In groups of
four, have participants take turns
Made me Resilient? sharing their answers to these questions:
Who made me Resilient?
What made me Resilient?
How did they do it?
Who keeps me Resilient now?
What keeps me Resilient now?
How?
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Top
Resiliency Each
participant looks at the list of personal
Builders
resiliency builders, identifying the three they use most when they are
facing stress, tragedy or other adversity.
Have participants raise their hands as you call out each of the
resiliency builders. Keep track of
the number of participants that identify each as one of their top three.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Using
Personal Have
participants work in groups of 5-6 and take
Resiliency
Builders turns sharing
their top three resiliency builders, and a time they used one of them to deal
with a difficult situation.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Adding
to Our Own Have
participants work in groups of 5-6 and take
Resiliency
Builders turns sharing
one personal resiliency builder that
they are working on, or think they should work on,
and ideas about how they can increase this personal resiliency builder.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Drawing
Have participants use crayons and paper to draw
Resiliency
their representation of what resiliency looks like/feels like inside of
them.
Have them share their drawings in small groups.
Display these drawings in a location where all participants can view
them.
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Reflecting
Upon Have
participants answer these questions:
Resiliency
Do you feel more resilient than you did before the study group?
How does it feel?
How did it happen?
Do you feel more able to successfully cope with a personal problem or
make a personal change?
What does this mean for the work you do?
What does this mean for your personal life?
Activity
for discovering our own resiliency:
Resiliency
Have participants work in groups of 5-6.
Blizzard
Have each person write down on a slip of paper a sentence or two that
conveys a message they would like to receive more often from others that would
help them feel more resilient.
Participants wad up their slips of paper and throw them into the center
of the table.
Each person selects a slip of paper from the center (not their own) and
reads it aloud to the group.
Group members then discuss: Is there any common theme in what group
members have written?
