Week 6 oct19

1. Understanding Personal
& Social Wellbeing
Level 1 Award
with Michelle Walsh @ The Waterside Centre
01254 354413
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk

2. Housekeeping
 Fire evacuation
 Toilets
 Smoking – Away from the front door
 Phone calls / appointments – Outside of classroom
time
 Commitment – Always AIM for 100%
 Sessions - NO SESSION NEXT WEEK
 Absences – to be reported to tutor
mwalsh@accross.ac.uk or Waterside (01254 354413)
You are able to use ItsLearning for resources to catch
up
 Brews – 25p per session – WASH OWN CUPS
 Questions?

3. Personal Resilience
1. State how the following can positively contribute
to personal resilience:
Emotional control b) Learning from experience c)
Interpersonal confidence d) Confidence in abilities e)
Commitment to achieving
2. State why levels of mental toughness/resilience
may change
3. Outline examples of what personal resilience is
NOT
4. Give own definition of what it means to be
personally resilient
Session 6

4. Any questions so far?

6. Learning outcome 1
Know about traits of
personal resilience/mental
toughness

7. What do you understand by the
word RESILIENCE?
Question

8.  Ability to perform effectively under pressure
 Bounce back from difficult circumstances
 Manage our overall health & wellbeing
 Understand how to achieve optimum performance
It is the personal challenge of striving for balance and harmony in the key
areas of our Cognition, Emotional and Physiological functioning as well as
understanding and playing to the strengths of our personality.
And, to be able to manage these in the context of our personal and
working environments
What is Personal Resilience?

10. Resilience

11. Resilience

12. Personal Resilience

15. 15 minutes = Plenty of time for
a brew, chat, drink of water,
toilet visit 
BREAK TIME

16. Discuss each one in pairs/3’s – Take notes –
Use the hand-out to guide you with sentences
a) Emotional control
b) Learning from experience
c) Interpersonal confidence
d) Confidence in abilities
e) Commitment to achieving
State how the following can
positively contribute to personal
resilience:

17. Emotional Resilience

18. A fun task – Login to ItsLearning via the computer
and go to week 6.
Click the page that says ‘How resilient are you..?’
Have a go and see what your score is 
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/resilience-
quiz.htm
Discussion - What did you think of the feedback?
How resilient are you..?

19.  Group discussion – consider what goes on in
people’s lives. Is everything the same? Are
people the same?
 Write ideas
Why might levels of mental
toughness/resilience change?

20.  Resilience is not about trying to carry on regardless of how we
feel, and it's not about being superhuman! Instead, it's about
understanding why we feel the way we do, and developing
strategies to help us deal with situations more effectively.
Things happen in everybody’s lives – It is how they deal with
it that changes
What personal resilience is not

21. What do you think it means to be
personally resilient?
 Discuss and then write ideas.
So… information from videos and
hand-out

22. Now you have explored some more ideas
about resilience;
 Complete page 18 in the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your
own thoughts and ideas
Workbook

23. Take these home with you please
Workbooks

24. Page 21 of Personal Resilience Unit
AC 3.2 & 3.3
 Identify a minimum of 2 aspects of personal resilience/mental
toughness to improve
 Produce an action plan to work towards increased personal
resilience/mental toughness
You will need to consider what areas of your own resilience that
you need to improve, examples could be things like your
persistence with something, asking for help, how you deal with
pressure, setting goals, understanding your emotions etc.
Homework

25. Personal Resilience
1. State how the following can positively contribute
to personal resilience:
Emotional control b) Learning from experience c)
Interpersonal confidence d) Confidence in abilities e)
Commitment to achieving
2. State why levels of mental toughness/resilience
may change
3. Outline examples of what personal resilience is
NOT
4. Give own definition of what it means to be
personally resilient
Session 6 Objectives
Did you..?

26. You will be looking into;
Personal Resilience
 Identify traits of personal resilience / mental toughness
 Identify personal areas for improvement in personal resilience /
mental toughness
Next Session – 28/10/2019