June 19 Personal Resilience

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 - LAST SESSION TODAY
 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 why levels of mental toughness/resilience may change
2. Outline examples of what personal resilience is NOT
3. Give own definition of what it means to be personally resilient
4. From own or given scenarios, identify; aspects of personal resilience being
demonstrated and aspects of personal resilience being neglected
5. State how the following could aid in developing a higher level of mental
toughness/personal resilience a)mindfulness b)education c)talking with an
independent party
6. Sign all additional evidence/feedback – Include in portfolio
7. Put portfolio back together, in order
8. Complete feedback form
Session 7

4. Any questions so far?

7. Learning outcome 1 -
Continued
Know about traits of
personal resilience/mental
toughness

8. What do you remember about
the word RESILIENCE?
Re-cap Question

10. 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 – How did you get on? Any surprises?
Reminder – This would have helped with your homework!
How resilient are you..?
Homework Part 1

11.  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?

12. What resilience is not…

13.  Resilience is NOT about always being able to push
through – No matter what
 Resilience is NOT about black and white thinking
 Resilience is NOT about having control over
everything, all the time
Key areas from video

14.  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

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

16. 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

17. AC 1.2 – Levels of mental
toughness/resilience may change
because…
AC 1.3 – Personal resilience is not…
AC 1.4 Being personally resilient to me
means…
Sentence starters

18. Learning outcome 2
Be able to identify traits of
personal resilience/mental
toughness

19. Work together to create a list of ways you would know if someone
was demonstrating personal resilience and ways you would know
that someone was neglecting personal resilience. You need to think
of different scenarios to help you;
Example =
Debt (this is the scenario)
Demonstrating resilience = Dealing with the company to arrange
suitable payment options – Learning from this so that it doesn’t
continue to happen
Neglecting resilience = Avoiding the debt, ignoring the letters and
not answering the door – Isolating yourself and continuing with the
same behaviour
Group activity – Demonstrate/neglect
personal resilience

20. Stress at work
Not enough time
Family arguments
Money troubles
A big change needs to happen in the near future
Example Scenarios

21. Now you have explored some more ideas
about resilience;
 Complete page 19 in the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your
own thoughts and ideas
Workbook

22. 15 minutes = Plenty of time for
a brew, chat, drink of water,
toilet visit 
BREAK TIME

23. Learning outcome 3
Be able to identify personal
areas for improvement in
personal resilience/mental
toughness

24.  Discuss in small groups how
mindfulness can aid in developing a
higher level of mental toughness /
personal resilience
Consider what mindfulness is about and
how it will help with resilience
Remember mindfulness?

25. Discuss in small groups how
education and talking with an
independent party can aid in
developing a higher level of mental
toughness / personal resilience
Education and Talking?

26. Now you have explored some more ideas
about resilience;
 Complete page 20 in the workbook
 All answers you provide, need to be your
own thoughts and ideas
Workbook

27. AC 3.1 – Mindfulness can aid a higher
level of mental toughness / personal
resilience because…
Start the same again with Education and
Talking with an independent party
Sentence starters

28. Personal Resilience
LO3 - Be able to identify personal areas for improvement in personal resilience
Development Plan – This was
part 2 of your homework
Aspect to improve By when?
(Date)
How to improve this
(Sentences)
Who could support me?
3.1 Identify a minimum of 1 aspect of personal resilience to improve
3.2 Outline an action plan to work towards increased personal resilience

29. Most of your feedback has been completed and you
have this – You need to reply to the feedback and sign
this.
All work MUST be completed for you to gain a certificate
– If you have feedback/sticky notes and you haven’t
completed the amendments, you need to do this now
The last unit feedback still needs to be done (you have
only just finished it) so you will need to come back in to
check your feedback and sign it off – Next Wednesday
afternoon
What now..?

30. Your portfolio needs to go back together, in
order…
Each unit should be in order and a feedback
sheet should be on the front
ALL additional evidence should be in the
back and it should have your name and
signature on it
What else?

31. Personal Resilience
1. State why levels of mental toughness/resilience may change
2. Outline examples of what personal resilience is NOT
3. Give own definition of what it means to be personally resilient
4. From own or given scenarios, identify; aspects of personal
resilience being demonstrated and aspects of personal
resilience being neglected
5. State how the following could aid in developing a higher level of
mental toughness/personal resilience a)mindfulness
b)education c)talking with an independent party
6. Sign all additional evidence/feedback – Include in portfolio
7. Put portfolio back together, in order
8. Complete feedback form
Session 7 Objectives
Did you..?