The Bounce Back Project is a collaborative of healthcare professionals and community members with a single purpose of promoting health and happiness. It provides tools to expand resilience by focusing on positive thinking and increasing well-being. These tools include performing random acts of kindness, practicing gratitude, strengthening social connections, mindfulness, finding purpose, and focusing on three good things each day. Random acts of kindness reliably increase well-being and can include writing encouraging notes, helping others, and acts of service in the community. The Bounce Back Project aims to create a movement of kindness.

2. What is Bounce Back Project?
Unique collaborative of physicians, nurses,
healthcare leaders and community members
Single purpose – to impact the lives of
individuals, communities, and
by promoting health through happiness

3. BOUNCE
BACK
PROJECT
TOOLS
Purpose: to expand resilience by retraining our mind to
focus on the positive, increase the feelings of well-being
and decrease the feelings of depression
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Three Good Things
- Gratitude
- Social Connections
- Mindfulness and Self-Care
- Purpose

4. RANDOM ACTS
OF KINDNESS

5. RANDOM
ACTS OF
KINDNESS
Doing an act of kindness produces the
single most reliable momentary
increase in well-being of any exercise
that has been tested.
Dr. Martin Seligman / University of Pennsylvania

6. RANDOM
ACTS OF
KINDNESS
“Life is an echo.
What you send out, comes back.
What you sow, you reap.
What you give, you get.
What you see in others, exists in you.”
- Zig Ziglar

7. HAPPINESS AND RANDOM
ACTS OF KINDNESS
There are two good things in life
– freedom of thought and
freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham

8. WHY KINDNESS?
How kindness can make
you happy

9. RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS
What have you seen? What have you done?

10. IMPACT ON BYSTANDERS
(WHAT WILL YOUR RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS
DO TO THOSE WHO WITNESS?)
Increases kindness in others
Increases generosity in others
Creates a “peak experience” of gratitude and ability to be content with
current state
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11. What Random Act of Kindness
Will You do Today?

12. LET’S PRACTICE!

13. THINGS YOU CAN DO
Write encouraging notes to people and leave them in random places
Write
Give your bus driver a small token of appreciation (for example, a card)
Give
Record a video love-note and text it to grandparents.
Record
Leave a note and candy or microwave popcorn on a DVD rental machine.
Leave
Help someone load their groceries into their car.
Help
Dry the slides at the park after it rains.
Dry
Take in a neighbor’s trashcans—or the whole street of them!
Take in
Take your teacher a box of tissues or a bottle of hand sanitizer.
Take
Bury treasure at the playground. A piece of Tupperware filled with small toys or goodies is sure to
light up a child’s eyes sometime in the future.
Bury

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OF THE MOVEMENT?
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