Stamina, Hope and Resilience

THINK ABOUT IT – TALK ABOUT IT

CHC invites the Nueva School Community to Think About It – Talk About It on the topic of stamina, hope and resilience. This collection contains selections of original CHC content and guiding questions that that will provide the foundation of our Talk About It session on November 8.

Think About It
A CHC online collection on Stamina, Hope and Resilience with guiding questions designed to engage, lift up and support the Nueva School Community

You access the resources at your own convenience – in a way that works with your schedule. You can select 2 or 3 resources, or you can view or listen to them all! You choose. Download our guiding questions handout to help corral your thoughts.

Talk About It
Live, virtual Q&A session with CHC experts Dr. Joan Baran, Dr. Vidya Krishnan, and Dr. Natalie Pon
Monday, November 8, 7:00- 8:00 pm [Zoom link coming from Nueva School]

After absorbing the resources, join us for a live Talk About It discussion/Q&A led by CHC experts. We will start as a full PK12 group with the CHC panel and then breakout into divisional specific groups to continue the conversation with a CHC expert. We hope you’ll walk away feeling encouraged with practical strategies you can use with your kids to build stamina and resilience.

CHC’s Stamina, Hope & Resilience Collection

Guiding Questions

• Our resilience is not affected by events so much as it is by our reaction to those events. How are you coping with the constant change and uncertainty we are facing? What coping strategies do you use (or can you use) to help?
• Self-awareness is essential to building stamina and resilience. How can you build greater self-awareness in stressful situations? What coping strategies do you use (or can you use) to help?
• How can self compassion help to build resilience? In yourself? In your kids?
• What are 1-2 strategies you can implement in your family or for yourself that will help to build stamina and resilience and foster hope and mental health?

Webinars

• Teaching Self Compassion to Kids
• Coping with Constant Change and Uncertainty
• Managing Stress with Mindfulness Strategies

Blogs

• Back to School Blues 3: How to Stay Balanced (When Your Head Is Spinning)

Podcasts

• The Power of Radical Acceptance
• Be Kind to Yourself: The Power of Self Compassion
• Stress, Trauma & Grief: Raising Resilient Kids Through Hard Times

CHC’s Stamina, Hope & Resilience Collection Resources

Webinars

Teaching Self Compassion to Kids
Research indicates that self-compassion is associated with greater emotional resilience, higher self-confidence, more caring behavior, and less reactive anger. In this recorded session, learn strategies for teaching your kids how to build resilience through self-compassion.

Ask an Expert: Teaching Self-Compassion to Kids

Coping with Constant Change and Uncertainty
It’s important to develop some coping strategies so that you can stay resilient during these anxiety-filled times. In this recorded session, learn some valuable strategies that you can use as you cope with the constant change and anxiety in your life right now.

Coping with Constant Change & Uncertainty [presentation]

Managing Stress with Mindfulness Strategies
Our kids are confronted with demands, full schedules, social pressures and even world events that result in stress. All children respond to stress in different ways – some responses are more productive than others. Discover how you can help your kids develop habits and responses that reduce their worries with mindfulness strategies.

Managing Stress with Mindfulness Strategies [presentation]

Blogs

Back to School Blues 3: How to Stay Balanced (When Your Head Is Spinning)
This is a lot harder than it sounds and requires compassion and grace that may be in short-supply these days. Read this blog from CHC experts that includes actionable tips that you can implement immediately to help you stay balanced.

Back-to-School Blues 3: How to Stay Balanced (When Your Head Is Spinning)

Podcasts

The Power of Radical Acceptance
Life has perhaps never felt more out of our control than it has over the past year. But refusing to accept our reality doesn’t change its outcome. Rather it increases the suffering that comes from the futility of fighting against it. Enter Radical Acceptance: the practice of letting go of the illusion of control and being willing to accept things as they are right now. Listen to this podcast episode discussing the life-changing power of radical acceptance and share strategies for making the conscious choice to stop resisting the way things are.

The Power of Radical Acceptance

Be Kind to Yourself: The Power of Self Compassion
Mental health is one of the biggest issues our world is collectively facing. If you feel like you are not good enough or “I should be doing more” is your daily mantra, then this episode is for you. In this episode you will learn gentle strategies for us to be more understanding and accepting of our own humanness, thus improving our ability to cope with adversity, make changes that lead to personal growth, and model self-compassion for our kids.

Be Kind to Yourself: The Power of Self-Compassion

Stress, Trauma & Grief: Raising Resilient Kids Through Hard Times
Last March, we thought we’d be sheltering in place, wearing masks and social distancing for a few weeks. Yet here we are over a year later, tired and stressed, stretched beyond what we thought we could endure. We’re experiencing what mental health experts call a “collective trauma”– overwhelm, isolation and the loss of what life used to be. Some have flourished during shelter-in-place and are anxious about re-entry. Others have lost so much that it feels like the only thing left to hold onto is hope. In this episode, hear how individualized responses to stress, trauma and grief and how weathering storms together can lead to greater resilience for you and your family.

Stress, Trauma & Grief: Raising Resilient Kids Through Hard Times

It Takes a Village

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