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.
December Character All Month
See NationalToday, AndTodayIs, NationalDayCalendar or DaysOfTheYear for more information on these and other holidays to celebrate this month. Holidays with Always-On Dates 1 Rosa Parks Day "One person can change the world." -Rosa Parks. What can you change in your...
Make a Gift Day – Dec. 3
Always December 3Whatever holiday or birthday traditions you follow, take some time today to think about a homemade gift for someone. Who would appreciate it? The act of making a gift is so much more personal than having Amazon thunk something on your porch. You don’t...
World Candle Lighting Day
Always 2nd Sunday in DecemberThe second Sunday in December is Worldwide Candle Lighting Day, that is a memorial activity to honor those children who are no longer with us. Candles are lit at 7 pm local time and left to burn for an hour. This will create a 24-hour wave...
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