This document discusses building resilience. It defines resilience as the ability to recover quickly from difficulties and adapt to change. It notes that over half of college students surveyed reported feeling overwhelmed by academics. The document encourages providing opportunities for failure, maintaining rigorous standards, teaching healthy coping strategies, and encouraging risk taking to build resilience. The overall message is that experiencing failure is an important part of growth and learning to overcome adversity.

1. Building Resiliency
Angela Housand
angelahousand.com
@housanda

3. resilience
1. the capacity to recover quickly from
difficulties; toughness.
2. the ability of a substance or object to
spring back into shape; elasticity.
noun

10. “A child's greatest achievements are possible
in play, achievements that tomorrow will
become her basic level of real action.”
Vygotsky

11. The Year of…
GREAT
EXPECTATIONS

12. 3rd

16. 95,000
college students
surveyed

17. Over 1/2 reported
Academics had been
“very difficult to handle”

18. Overwhelmed
Exhausted
Extreme Anxiety 60.8%
82.6%
86%

19. Ascending
Intellectual
Demand Zone of
Proximal
Development

21. Stay
in the
Struggle

22. What is
YOUR
definition of
success?

25. It is impossible to live
without failing at something,
unless you live so cautiously
that you might as well
not have lived at all.
In which case,
you fail by default.
J.K. Rowling

26. PROVIDE THE
OPPORTUNITY
FOR FAILURE

27. The Year of…
GREATER
EXPECTATIONS

28. 4th

33. False praise can be as
harmful as no praise!

35. Don’t
you
think
if I were
wrong,
I’d
KNOW it?

36. Lack of
Honest
Self-Appraisal
Skills

38. MAINTAIN
RIGOROUS
STANDARDS

39. The Year of…
EVEN GREATER
EXPECTATIONS

40. 5th

42. I have not failed 1000 times…
-Thomas Edison

43. I have not failed 1000 times…
I have successfully
discovered 1000 ways to NOT
make a light bulb.
-Thomas Edison

47. FAILURE
isn’t a necessary evil.
In FACT, it isn’t EVIL at all.
It is a NECESSARY
consequence of doing
something NEW.
- Ed Catmull

48. FAILEARLY
FAILFAST

50. Fear of Failure
Goal Achievement
Opportunities

51. “Fear of Failure” Signs:
• Worry what others will think
• Attempt to lower expectations
• Physical symptoms
• Procrastination

53. Overcome adversity.

56. TEACH
HEALTHY
COPING

57. The Year of…
A NEW HOPE

58. 6th

59. Risk
Taking

61. Increased Sense of Control

64. ENCOURAGE
RISK
TAKING

65. Resilience

66. YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE

71. The greater danger for
most of us lies not in
setting our aim too high
and falling short;
but in setting our aim
too low, and achieving
our mark.
-Michelangelo

73. Building Resiliency
Angela Housand
angelahousand.com
@housanda