Resilience can be described as a set of strengths we can employ to drive us towards achieving a balance between the highs and lows that we experience, in life and work.
Well-being and resilience are two components that allow us to make teaching and learning sustainable and meaningful during times of change, crisis, and challenge. While we cannot maintain a constant level of wellbeing, we can lead students and teachers to recognize when a state of wellbeing exists, and when drawing on resilience strengths is useful or necessary. Some people thrive in a crisis. Other people flourish in a state of well-being. Neither of these two states can be maintained consistently. We are constantly in a state of flux and change, perhaps now more than ever.
In this course, we will share and discuss the importance of teachers’ understanding and taking responsibility developing their resilience strengths to help them navigate their way towards a heightened and more stable state of wellbeing. By identifying and analyzing the strengths necessary for achieving wellbeing and behaving resiliently, we can collaborate to navigate the highs and lows in ways that promote mental, emotional, and physical health.
- Teacher: Natalie Croome