1. HardiTraining’s Foundation Component
HardiCoping
HardiTraining’s
Foundation Component

2. Dimensions of Learning
Cognitive dimensions of HardiCoping:
It increases your ability to take constructive action through the building of new categories for thinking about experience.
As you practice HardiCoping, your thinking becomes increasingly more flexible, imaginative, and innovative.
You learn how to better evaluate consequences of action through enhanced judgment, planning, and implementation of behavior.
It helps you to analyze possibility in relation to life givens (critical thinking).
Emotional/Behavioral dimensions of HardiCoping:
You learn to delay impulsive behavior that is short-term gratifying, through effective coping and problem-solving.
You increase your ability to tolerate frustrating circumstances that threaten to undermine your academic and personal performance.
Your self-confidence increases as you see yourself behaving academically and socially more constructively.
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3. Identifying Stressful Circumstances.
This exercise helps you to identify academic and personal stresses that can undermine your capacity to thrive in school and in life.
In this exercise, you begin the process of reflective thinking. You can only solve the problems that you are aware of. By accurately identifying stressful circumstances, you can pinpoint the source of your stress. In addition, you reduce the risk of stressful circumstances blind-siding you and undermining your performance, leadership, and health.
Unmentalized = means difficulties that have no labels as of yet. Because of this, these stresses have a higher probability of undermining the student’s performance, morale, conduct, and health.
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4. Five Forms of Perspective
Perspective helps you to organize thinking in a way that brings about solutions to the problem.
Five forms of perspective include:
Commonplace Perspective
Manageability Perspective
Improvement Perspective
Time Perspective
Unpredictability Perspective
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5. Five Forms of Understanding
New understanding helps you to organize the way you think about a problem so you can find a way to solve it.
Five forms of understanding include:
Personal Limitation
Misunderstanding
Clash of Wills
Victimization
External Forces
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6. Situational Reconstruction
Exercise Steps
Think of a stressful circumstance.
Which way(s) could it be worse or better?
What would have to change in you or the circumstance for the worse and best scenarios to come about?
What is the likelihood that this will happen?
What can you do to bring about a better version of the circumstance?
How has your perspective and understanding about the stressful circumstance shifted thus far? And, which ways can it be improved?
Is there a resolution in sight?
The effort you put into transforming your problems into new opportunities for growth and learning parallels the richness and meaning that you get out of life experience.
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Focusing
Exploring how emotions influence problem-solving:
Get in a comfortable position.
Direct your attention inward.
Ask yourself, “What is it about the stressful situation that stands in the way of my feeling really good right now?”
What word, phase, or image comes to your mind right now that labels your experience of the problem?
Stay with the process until you come to a label that deeply reflects your internal experience of the problem.
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8. Compensatory Self-Improvement
Regaining Momentum
This exercise helps you to keep the coping momentum going. If you cannot solve a stressful circumstance (a given), you find another one to solve that relates, somehow, to the unsolvable circumstance.
Through the tools of Situational Reconstruction you:
Define the stressful circumstance
Imagine best and worse case scenarios
Determine the likeliness of the scenarios to come about
Pick one of the best scenarios to devise a plan of action
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9. HardiCoping: Planning Action
Goal Setting
What is the goal of your plan? __________________
Steps Toward the Goal
What steps will you take to reach your goal? ________________________________________
Time Line
For each step, when will you take it, and how long will it take to complete? ________________________
Reaction to Your Plan
How do you feel about your plan? _______________
If one or more of your steps do not work, do you have a contingency plan? ______________________
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Carrying Out the Plan
You can use these three forms of feedback to strengthen your HardiAttitudes. You learn, through this feedback, how HardiCoping positively influenced your response to stressful circumstances, which strengthens the commitment, control, and challenge attitudes in you.
Observations of Yourself in Action
Observations Made of You by Others
Direct Reactions to Your Planned Actions
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