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In the wellness and resilience strategies, the four sectors – Mindful Self-Awareness, Core Values, Physical Wellness, and Healthy Relationships – not only contribute to your overall wellness, but also provide guidance on strategies to help build your compassion resilience. Physical Wellness encompasses stress resilience and care for the body. Stress resilience allows us to maintain a level of calm
as we encounter the inevitable stressors of our job.
Developing our ability to care for our bodies and listen to the signs that our bodies give us, support our whole health, and minimize any unhealthy responses to stress.
Becoming stress resilient and caring for our bodies often require assistance from others. Help seeking is a key skill for building one’s compassion resilience.
Facilitator Agenda, Section Ten
Writing and Sharing Staff Resilience Stories (30-60 min)
One of our pilot schools for this toolkit experimented with an activity that went so well, they want to share it with other schools. Staff were asked to write a short story about an obstacle they faced and overcame. The stories were submitted anonymously and shared with students by random staff in various classes. The next day the homeroom teachers led a community building circle to talk about what the students had heard and what it meant to them.
Dr. Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk on How to Make Stress Your Friend explores a perspective shift on stress when the healthy pressure of growth in your work place feels overwhelming.
This article discusses the stages of change applied to emotional resilience. The website offers many brief articles on topics included in this toolkit.