Master Resilience Bootcamp- Empowered Teachers

Resilience is vital in the education sector

1. IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY ACADEMY
ROWENA P. ALTAR
Mental Health Advocate | Master of Arts in
Guidance and Counseling (MAGC)
Master Resilience
Bootcamp:
Bouncing back with IHMA (Interiority, Humility, Modesty
and Amiability)
July 11, 2024| 9:00 a.m.

2. Mindfulness1.
Using Values to Build Resilience2.
My Resilience Plan3.
01
Learning Agenda
What we'll cover this afternoon

3. Fully apply yourself while you are participating in this
session (mute your phones, no work materials, etc.).
Your Commitment
02
Complete each exercise and activity to the best of your
ability.
Ask questions.
Be receptive.

4. Mindfulness
In the Eye of the Storm
“No storm can shake my inmost calm.”

6. Mindfulness practice offers a way to disengage
from the hectic world around us by focusing
attention inward.
By connecting to the breath, we can disconnect
from upsetting thoughts, emotions and other
stressors that disrupt inner peace.
The goal is to explore inner peace by using breath
to become like the eye of the hurricane; the silent
part of ourselves that can notice difficult or
challenging experiences without getting caught up
and carried away.
Discussion

7. Reflection
Examen the core of this
Ignatian resilience
What was it like to connect with yourself?
How do you feel now?
Did you resonate with the metaphor of
the eye of the storm? If not, can you think
of another metaphor that would resonate
with you more?

8. Using Values to
Build Resilience

9. Put on your “cape”
Go around and write
compliments/strengths/values
to your fellow superheroes
Do this for 15 minutes
DIY CAPES

10. List of Values

11. Values Reminder
Purpose of values reminder is to focus on the current
reminder general values that are considered to be
important in life.
1
Unlike goals, which represent what we want to achieve,
values are ways of living that can never be obtained and
can only be realized from moment to moment.
2
In sum, the focus is on what is important to the
participants, rather than on what he/she aims to
achieve.
3
Procedures

12. Procedures
After the participants has created the values reminder,
ask him/her if he/she would like to discuss it together.
Sharing the values reminder with others can not only
enhance the connection between individuals but can
also create a fruitful starting point for behavioral
change.
4
After completing your visual values reminder, you can
put it somewhere where you can see it every day (e.g.,
on the refrigerator or office desk). In this way, it can
help you to stay in touch with what makes your struggle
worth going through.
5
Values Reminder

13. Evaluation
Can you explain to me what we are looking at?
How was it to create this values reminder?
What did you experience while making it?
What did you learn from this exercise?

14. What is
Resilience?
“He who has a why to live
can bear almost any how.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

15. Defining Resilience
Resilience is the ability to grow and thrive in the face of
challenges and bounce back from adversity.
Past research findings suggest that connecting to personal
values can help people be more resilient in the face of
stress.
Values provide a reason to keep going, especially when life
events make it hard or impossible to live in line with
personal values.
Values may serve as a light in the darkness of stressful
times, reminding us why is it worth fighting for something,
persist and to take responsibility.

16. Resilient people
bounce, not break

17. Resilience
Myths and Facts
Never show emotion
About the individual
Must handle everything on your own
Always act fast
Accomplish superhuman feats
Always fully composed
Have it or you don’t
It‘s a destination
Regulate emotion
About the individuals and relationships
Asking for help is a resilient strategy
Know when to slow down
Bounce back
Not always pretty
Everyone can develop it
It‘s a process

18. Resilience strengthens
6 core competencies
DEVELOPMENTAL COUNTERACT
NEGATIVITY BIAS
POSITIVENESS

19. SELF-AWARENESS:
Identify thoughts, emotions and behaviors
Identify thinking and behavior patterns particularly counterproductive
Be open and curious
SELF-REGULATION:
Regulate impulses, emotions, and behaviors to achieve goals
Express emotions appropriately
Stop counterproductive thinking

20. OPTIMISM:
Hunt for what is good
Remain realistic
Identify what is controllable
Maintain hope
Have confidence in self and team
MENTAL AGILITY:
Think flexibly and accurately
Take other perspectives
Identify and understand problems
Be willing to try new strategies

21. CONNECTION:
Strong relationships
Positive and effective communication
Empathy
Willingness to ask for help
Supporting others
STRENGTHS OF CHARACTER:
Knowledge of top strengths and how to use them to overcome challenges and
meet goals
Faith in one’s strengths, talents and abilities
“I am strong” attitude

22. This exercise helps you draw on your resilience
resources to build a personal resilience plan,
which you can use to help you combat any future
challenges.
My Resilience Plan

23. For instance, did you call an old friend, or ask a
teacher for advice, or perhaps a parent or
grandparent gave you a pep talk.
Who are the supportive people in your life
that kept you standing when it would have
been easier to fall down?
IDENTIFY
SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE
Supports that keep you upright

24. For example, did you meditate, or write in a
gratitude journal, or go for a walk, or listen to a
particular song or type of music, or have a
massage to release tension. Write down the
strategies you used in the bottom left cell of the
quadrant below.
What ‘strategies’ did you use to help yourself
cope with any negative thought and feeling
that showed up in response to the difficulty?
IDENTIFY
STRATEGIES
Strategies that keep you moving

25. It can come from song lyrics, novels, poetry,
spiritual writings, quotes from the famous, the
sayings of one’s grandparent, or learning from
one’s own experience. Write down your sagacity
in the bottom right cell of the quadrant below.
What ‘sagacity’ helped you bounce back
from this difficulty? Sagacity is the wisdom
and insight that you hold onto.
IDENTIFY SAGACITY
Sagacity that gives you comfort and hope

26. For example, did you problem-solve, or seek out
new information, or plan ahead, or negotiate, or
speak up and voice your opinion, or ask others
for help. Write down the solution-seeking
behaviors you displayed in the top left cell of the
quadrant below.
What solution-seeking behaviors did you
display to help you actively deal with the
problem?
IDENTIFY SOLUTION-
SEEKING BEHAVIORS
Solution-seeking behaviors you can show

27. Resilience
Plan
Sample
Difficult situation: Unsuccessful job
interview

28. The next step is to put your resilience plan
into action.
A
Consider the order in which to use your
different supports, strategies, sagacity, and
solution-seeking behaviors: which resource
is most feasible to start with?
B
Then, continue to number your different
resources in the order in which you would
feasibly use them.
C
Carry out
your
Resilience
Plan

29. Processing and Closing
As a wrap up for today’s session, and to kick
off this year, let us keep in mind the ideals of
the Master Resilience bootcamp.
As a group, plan and present a creative
presentation to showcase the session’s
highlights and your learnings.

30. Thank
you!
― Gregory S. Williams
“ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A STORM IS THE STRENGTH THAT COMES FROM HAVING NAVIGATED
THROUGH IT. RAISE YOUR SAIL AND BEGIN.”