What is in my Control? Taking Charge of My Resilience - Woodward Academy
Channel: Act2gether
Date: 20/07/2020

It is our body's natural biological response as human beings to feel fear, anxiety and other emotions in response to threats and uncertainty in our environment.  Seeing that this is normal can be a cause for empathy and patience with ourselves and others. We all have a resilient zone where we function as our best selves. If we get bumped out of this zone by stressors, we can use sensory-based techniques like resourcing, grounding and Help Now! Strategies to help our body regulate and to get back into our resilient zone. In this session, students from Woodward Academy will share easy to implement strategies that work for them during this time when being with their friends and teachers at school is not possible.  

We can learn more about these strategies in the Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning Chapter 2 and the "iChill" app by the Trauma Resource Institute (Scroll down for links)

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SKILL Recorded Workshop 1
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Head [1] . Heart [3] . Hand [2]

Children and Adults will learn:
— The concept of the resilient zone, high and low zones and body dis-regulation
— Skills of resilience to bring their bodies back into regulation
— That human beings are strong by design as evidenced by our survival and that there are skills we can acquire to cultivate well being

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ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
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Jennifer Knox is the Woodward Academy’s Director of Character Education and the Ron M. Brill Chair for Ethical Leadership Development, where she oversees the implementation of the SEE Learning Program and supports Academy-wide work with character and leadership development, service learning, and equity and inclusion. She serves as a Professional Learning and Curriculum Consultant for Emory’s SEE Learning Program at the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion Based Ethics and has also conducted Cognitively-based Compassion Training (CBCT®) and facilitated SEE Learning Educator Prep Workshops with educators at schools around the country and abroad.

Vaishnavi Vuyyuru is a student at the Woodward Academy.

Additional videos shown in the workshop are from Woodward Academy students Ella Shutze and Kavya Iyer.

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TO KNOW MORE
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Woodward Academy
www.woodward.edu

Social, Emotional, and Ethical (SEE) Learning 
https://seelearning.emory.edu/resources-research

"iChill" App — Trauma Resource Institute
https://www.traumaresourceinstitute.com

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ABOUT ACT2GETHER
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This recorded workshop is part of "Learning 2gether", the final strand of the 2getherLAND Online campaign. It gives knowledge and practical skills to help children and adults be better partners in different spaces: home, school, community, nature.

Part of ACT2gether - an initiative spearheaded by the Learning for Well-being Foundation
www.act2gether.com
www.learningforwellbeing.org