VTT March Session 2: Slides: Introduction to Resiliency

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Resiliency Overview
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Understanding Resilience
Top of Participant Guide page 8
§  Share words you feel that capture resilience.

What is resilience?
§  A resilient individual is one who is willing to take
calculated, necessary risks, and to capitalize on
opportunity.
§  Resilience is the ability to grow and thrive in the
face of challenges and bounce back from
adversity.

Resilient people bounce, not break.
You Not You
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Used with permission.
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Resilience Myth Resilience Fact
Never show emotion Regulate emotion
Only about the individual About individuals and
relationships
Must handle everything
on your own
Asking for help is a resilient
strategy
Always act fast Know when to slow down
Always fully composed Not always pretty
Have it or you don’t Everyone can develop it
Resilient people never burn
out
Rejuvenation fuels resilience
Resilience Myths and Facts

Resilience Competencies
1.  Self-awareness
2.  Self-regulation
3.  Optimism
4.  Mental Agility
5.  Strengths of Character
6.  Connection
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1. Self-awareness:
§  Identify thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
§  Identify patterns in thinking and behavior,
particularly counterproductive patterns
§  Be open and curious
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All rights reserved.

2. Self-regulation:
§  Regulate impulses, emotions, physiology, and
behaviors to achieve goals
§  Express emotions appropriately
§  Stop counterproductive thinking

3. Optimism:
§  Hunt for what is good
§  Fight the Negativity Bias
§  Remain realistic
§  Identify what is controllable
§  Maintain hope
§  Have confidence in self and team
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4. Mental Agility:
§  Think flexibly, accurately, and thoroughly (FAT)
§  Take other perspectives
§  Identify and understand problems
§  Be willing to try new strategies

5. Strengths of Character
§  Know your top Character Strengths and how to
use them to overcome challenges and meet goals
§  Have faith in one’s Character Strengths, talents,
and abilities
§  Demonstrate an “I am strong” attitude

6. Connection:
§  Build strong relationships
§  Use positive and effective communication
§  Develop empathy, tracking
§  Be willing to ask for help
§  Support others

Resilience skills make you stronger, not softer.
§  They increase your ability to cope with stress.
§  They increase your ability to overcome setbacks.
§  They increase your ability to solve problems.
§  They increase your ability to remain task focused.
§  They increase your ability to perform under
pressure.
§  They increase your confidence.
§  They decrease helplessness, depression, and
anxiety.

Resilience Competencies Key
Principles
§  Bounce, not break: Resilient people bounce, not
break, when faced with an adversity or challenge.
§  Can be developed: Everyone can enhance his or
her resilience by developing the MRT
competencies.

Our Model
Crawl Walk Run
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Skill mastery requires
that you know…
§  What is the skill?
§  When do I use it?
§  How do I use it?

MRT Skills
Hunt the Good Stuff

§  Hunt the Good Stuff helps to build Optimism.
§  Hunt the Good Stuff builds positive emotion, such
as gratitude.
Hunt the Good Stuff:
B.L.U.F.

§  Builds positive emotion, optimism, gratitude
(studied by Robert Emmons)
§  Counteracts the Negativity Bias
§  Leads to:
–  Better health, better sleep, feeling calm
–  Lower depression and greater life satisfaction
–  More optimal performance
–  Better relationships
Hunt the Good Stuff
Based on work by Martin Seligman and colleagues

§  Record three good things each day. Next to each
positive event that you list, write a reflection (at
least one sentence) about one or more of the
following topics:
–  Why this good thing happened
–  What this good thing means to you
–  What you can do tomorrow to enable more of this
good thing
–  What ways you or others contribute to this good
thing
Hunt the Good Stuff Journal

§  Counteracts the Negativity Bias: You can
counteract the Negativity Bias–the tendency to
pay more attention to bad events than positive
events–by recording three good things on a
regular basis.
§  Optimism: Optimism is a primary target of Hunt
the Good Stuff.
Hunt the Good Stuff
Key Principles

§  How can you use Hunt the Good Stuff to enhance
your performance?
§  How did keeping track of positive events and
experiences affect how you interacted with
others?
Hunt the Good Stuff Applications

Hunt the Good Stuff:
Check on Learning
What is the skill? Hunt the Good Stuff is used to notice
positive experiences to enhance optimism, gratitude, and
other positive emotions.
When do I use it? Hunt the Good Stuff on a regular basis in
order to counteract the Negativity Bias.
How do I use it? Write down three positive experiences from
the day and write a reflection about why the good thing
happened, what the good thing means to you, what you can
do to enable more of the good thing, or what ways you or
others contributed to the good thing.
Hunt the Good Stuff is used to notice
positive experiences to enhance optimism, gratitude, and
other positive emotions.
Hunt the Good Stuff on a regular basis in
order to counteract the Negativity Bias.
Write down three positive experiences from
the day and write a reflection about why the good thing
happened, what the good thing means to you, what you can
do to enable more of the good thing, and/or what ways you or
others contributed to the good thing.

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