Resilience In the Community
vs. despair
Recovering from adversity
To practice Resilience, I will: 
- adapt to adverse conditions
- seek out support and build relationships
- find meaning in all I do
- see failure as a temporary setback
- build on my experiences
Resilience, Trust, and Empathy
When a traumatic event rocks a family or a community, they will call upon their trust and empathy to be resilient in facing a challenge. If trust is weak and connections are fragile, survival will be a much larger struggle. It’s been said that tragedy builds character, which is true but first, it reveals character. Character building will take place as the challenge is overcome and fully realized on the other side of survival. If a family or community has strong trust and robust relationships, their Resilience will also be powerful, and recovery will be much quicker. The moral? Feed your relationships regularly to improve your Resilience.
How will you improve your Resilience?
The Links below will take you to Resources you can use with the family or within community organizations
to teach the Character Quality of Resilience.
The following activities are related to dates this month and can relate to any character quality or good character in general.
January Character All Month
See NationalToday, AndTodayIs, NationalDayCalendar or DaysOfTheYear for more information on these and other holidays to celebrate this month. Day in Jan 2025 Holiday How to Commemorate with Character 1 Universal Hour of Peace In recent times, the...
Valentine’s Day Activity
Always February 14Give each person a paper on which has been drawn a large heart (see download link) or have them draw a large heart on a piece of paper making sure there is room to write both inside and outside the heart. On the inside have them write 3 things that...
New Year Activity
Always January 1It’s a new year, a time for new beginnings. Play Start Stop Continue. Each person picks a behavior they want to Start in the New Year, a behavior they want to Stop in the New Year and a behavior they want to Continue in the New Year. Focus on habits...
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