1. U can Do It! Education

2. Resilience
Resilience means ... When faced with difficult and challenging situations and people, being able to:
1. stop getting extremely angry, down, or worried, 2. controlling my behaviour when I am very upset, 3. calming down within a reasonable period of time, and 4. bouncing back to work and play.

3. Emotional Thermometer
Are you staying calm?

4. The Catastrophe Scale
“Don’t go blowin’ things out of proportion”

5. Resilience Skills
Coping Skills that Develop a Young Person’s Resilience:
Finding something fun to do
Finding someone to talk to
Relaxing
Exercising
Being assertive
Solving the problem
Changing negative to positive self-talk

6. Resilience Skills
Rational Thinking to Deal with Difficulty that Builds Resilience:
It’s Not the End of the World – thinking “It’s not the worst thing that could happen to me.
I Can Stand It –thinking “While I don’t like it, I can stand it.”
Accepting Myself –thinking “I am not hopeless. I have friends and do other things well. I am still me.”
Taking Risks - thinking “I don’t have to do things perfectly. It’s good to try something new even though I might not be able to do it.”
Being Independent - thinking “I don’t need everyone to approve of me all the time. It’s important to try new activities and to speak up even if my classmates think I’m silly or stupid.”
I Can Do It - thinking “I’m more likely to be successful than I am to fail.”
Working Tough - thinking “I don’t always need things to be fun and exciting.”
Being Tolerant of Others – thinking “I won’t judge people by their actions or differences”

7. Habits of the Mind = Mindset
are the ways that young people look at their world and construct meaning about experiences...largely determine how they think, feel and behave...and can be positive or negative.

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11. Habits of the Mind Determine Destiny

12. Key Idea to Communicate to Students
Your thinking about things that happen causes your feelings and behaviours.

13. The mule story
Once a upon a time
There was a mule that fell in to a farmers Well. It yelled a bray the farmer heard the bray he called he’s neighbours they came they started to fill the hole the mule panicked but he said shake it off and step up and got out of the well.
What is the message
Shake it off and step up