Resilience
Bounce Forward Resilience Training
The Bounce Forward Resilience Training programme has been designed for students aged 10-12 and can be adapted for older age groups. The course is taught over six 1-hour sessions and is based on the following themes:
✓ Understand that life is a challenging journey - our resilience helps us cope with and overcome difficulty
✓ Understand the brain and the role of emotion
✓ Realize that resilience skills can help us understand why we react the way we do
✓ Optimism & Evidence
✓ Understand the importance of gratitude
✓ Discover how to calm down when emotions are strong
✓ Consider how resilience skills can help one express themselves and understand others
✓ Create an individual resilience plan
Children need to develop life skills as much as they need to develop academic skills. Teaching resilience helps children and young people to understand how to get through challenging times, how to recognise that failure is part of success and how their response can help them thrive in life. Successfully overcoming setbacks requires the ability to communicate and empathise. Each of the skills and resilience competencies taught will enable the students to better express themselves and instil the compassion needed in today’s world.
What is Resilience?
Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from setbacks. Resilience often starts with making a choice – stop, take a moment, take a breath, change your perspective, focus on the positives and then respond in a way that gives you back control.
Bounce Forward Resilience Training helps children to:
• Cope better with educational and life pressures
• Develop compassion and empathy
• Think flexibly and realistically and adapt to the world around them
• Become proactive agents of change for good.
The earlier we start strengthening our children’s capacity to resist stress, the better.