The Resiliency Skills Handbook

The Resiliency Skills Handbook

Resilience, Social Skills, Secondary, Steve Burns

How to develop lifelong skills in social and emotional resilience

Ages 11-18

By Steve Burns

This mammoth collection of quick, engaging and effective resources brings together techniques adapted from NLP, Life-Coaching and Positive Psychology to provide an essential and flexible classroom resource for teachers working with students to promote the key skills of social and emotional resilience. Comprehensive, accessible and tried-and-tested classroom lessons are provided and cross-referenced throughout for easy identification in all the following areas:

• Self Awareness - Knowing myself; Understanding my feelings
• Managing My Feelings - Managing how I express my emotions; Changing uncomfortable feelings and increasing pleasant feelings
• Motivation - Working towards goals; Persistence, resilience and optimism; Evaluation and reviewing
• Empathy - Understanding the thoughts and feelings of others; Valuing and supporting others
• Social Skills - Building and maintaining relationships; Belonging to groups; Solving problems including interpersonal ones.

The resource includes exercises, stories, games and puzzles. They are suitable for either one-off lessons, looking at specific issues, or can be delivered as a series of developmental sessions which can also be adapted for accreditation.

Manual: 132 pages; includes FREE printable CD-Rom with a further 128 pages of activities.