resilience

1. Understanding Resilience
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2. Objectives of the
program:
 To impart knowledge and skills that
will help Students become resilient
 To impart knowledge and skills that
will enable them build resilience
 To provide resources and
opportunities that help students
build resilience
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3. The GLORY within
us
• We are born to make manifest
• The GLORY that is within us.
• It is not just in some of us,
• It is in everyone of us.
• And as we let our lights shine,
• We unconsciously give other people
• The right to do the same.
• Nelson Mandela
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4. The Belief
• Resiliency building is a positive,
strengths-based approach to
youth development.
• It is process based on the
findings of extensive research
and on the belief that
• “All people have an inherent
capacity to overcome adversity
in their lives.”
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5. Defining Resilience
• Resilience is an ability to perform well during and after
the adverse event. WHO, 1994
• Resilience has been defined as an aptitude to
successfully adapt in a positive way to adverse
circumstances. Zakeri, Jowkar, & Razmjoee, (2010)..
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• The way humans experience emotions and exercise
cognitive faculties in earliest life shed vital impacts on
their later life functioning Kandel, (1998).
• But the empirical evidence suggests that response to
adverse circumstances varies from person to person.
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6. Challenges
• This is the age of information overload. Our
education system is challenged by fast changing
global realities and it is causing unprecedented
pressure over schools and parents to prepare their
children for better future.
• Above all, it has put students under severe burden
of academically smarter performance. The burden
on little souls is hard to carry.
• Students are facing multiple pressures which are
adversely affecting their personalities.
• The challenges students face are many since their
early childhood like communicating emotions,
disagreement with friends, celebrating victories,
facing defeats, study pressures etc.
• Youth are also challenged by Emotion management,
Ego balance, Relationship management, Risk
assessment etc.
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7. Challenges Contd
They have left with no time
to play, to enjoy with peers,
to celebrate the moments
with family or relax and feel
the leisure.
The result is the rise of one-
dimensional man, unsatisfied
professional, rising rate of
unsuccessful marriages,
personality collapses and
rising suicidal tendencies.

8. Case study
Case of A student of engineering
from NUST
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9. Mechanisms to
respond the obstacles
• To cope up these challenges, minor or major;
youth need to exercise their responses positively.
• The mechanisms to respond to the obstacles are
innate but students need to learn skills to how to
appropriately exercise those responses.
• The way people show resilience varies from
person to person and even may vary in different
situations by the same person.
• The single most common factor for
children/adults who develop resilience is at least
one stable and committed relationship with
parent, caregiver or any adult. National Scientific
Council on the Developing Child. (2015).
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10. Children of A Drug-addict
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11. Skills of a Resilient
person
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A resilient person is the one characterized by five skills as
(1) self-awareness &
empathy;
(2) coping with stress
& emotions;
(3) communication &
interpersonal skills;
(4) development of
critical & creative
thinking skills;
(5) problem solving &
decision-making skills.
World Health
Organization. (2020).

12. Persistence matters
• A brilliant chap may become a successful
adult achieving attractive positions but he
would lead a mechanic life, deprived of
enjoying holistic life and a sense of self-
fulfillment. Even a minor failure of their
life may cause their personality collapse.
• But on the contrary, an average adult with
higher emotional intelligence may
embrace the odds of life with courage
and persistence.
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13. Return on
Investment Model
• The program is offered because it is both results
oriented and cost effective. Individuals must be able
to focus, plan ahead, avoid distractions, and shift their
behavior according to the emerging demands and
rules of work and family responsibilities.
• When these skills are not developed or compromised
by adversities our society pays its price in the shape of
dropping out of school, poor academic performance,
low economic productivity, health burden and social
disintegration, the factors impeding the national
development.
• Hackman & Master (2007) have highlighted the
importance of Return on Investment model in early
intervention being successful for both short term and
long term benefits while Belfield et al (2015)
estimated that the cost of evidence based resilience
enhancement programs is overshadowed by the
academic smarter performance and social functioning
with the ratio of 11 to 1.
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14. Institutional Model
• Parallel to individual capacity enhancement, school environment
and learning climate has similar impacts on their performance.
Assessment of school climate model examines four aspects i.e
• Empathy (feeling cared for),
• Accountability (sense of follow-through)
• Respect (considerate behavior), and
• Trust (belief in the people and institution).
• These factors are highly predictive of three tangible outcomes:
Connectedness, Learning, and Safety (Freedman & Jensen, 2008).
• Freedman (2003) furthers the idea by validating that the longer
the intervention programs the higher are expected outcomes.
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15. The Six Seconds Model of
Emotional Intelligence
1. Know Yourself: Self-awareness
• Clearly noticing what you feel and do. Emotions are data,
and this pursuit allows you to accurately collect that
information.
2. Choose Yourself: Self-management
• Doing what you mean to do. Instead of reacting “on
autopilot,” this pursuit encourages you to proactively
respond to make conscious, careful decisions.
3. Give Yourself: Self-direction
• Doing it for a reason. This pursuit helps you put your
most important commitments into action so you unlock
your full power and potential.
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16. A million $$$ question
Can we eliminate adversities/problems/worries etc?
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17. So, its
better
preparing
the person
to face
adversities
with GRACE
rather than
focusing on
problems.
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18. Sweet are the
uses of
adversity.
(Shakespeare)
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19. Ecological Model
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20. Mental Toughness Model
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21. How can we build
resilience?
• Dr. Napoléon Hills child was born with a natural
deformity. He didn’t have ears.
• Everyone including doctors told him that the child
will be deaf/mute.
• But
• Napoléon resisted accepting the suggestions of
people around.
• He would talk to the child daily with a belief that
he would one day listen.
• To a surprise after certain age, the child stated
hearing and talking.
• The doctors were shocked as they had examined
the child thoroughly and found no ear sign.
• Till that times it was not discovered that one can
hear through bones.
• It was the miracle of faith and hope and never-to-
surrender mindedness.
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22. The Greatest Glory
Our greatest glory is not
in never falling,
but
Rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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23. The Law of
Compensation
Every pain you experience in
life, carries with it. an
equivalent level of Benefit.
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24. Any Question
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