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The Resilience Breakthrough:“Resilience is the great equalizer -- Ittranscends race, gender, culture,socio-economic status. and literallyany other aspect of your environment.”.-Christian Moore, MSWWhyTry FounderKeys to Creating a Resilient School ClimatePresented by Hans MaglebyCo-founder and developer, The WhyTry Programwww.whytry.org
flipping the switchverbWhen you flip the switch, you stop fora moment, realize you can turn paininto power, and move forward,committed to being resilient. “Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”Bernard WilliamsEnglish philosopherFlipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience2
Flipping the Switch SkillsCombat denial and acknowledge there is a problem.Ask the Flip the Switch Question: “How can I use this emotional pain, challenge, or situation tobetter my circumstances and make me more resilient -- today, this hour, this minute, this second?”Do the opposite of what people would normally do in a similar situation.Pay attention to how you feel.www.whytry.org (866) 949-87913
resiliencere sil iencenounThe ability to bounce back when youhave every reason to shut down -- butyou fight on! Resilient people haveboth tapped and untapped reserves,enabling them to overcome and thriveas they face the setbacks,challenges, and fears of daily life. Flipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience4
Emotional Fuel:The Breakthrough - www.whytry.org (866) uiltRegretSadness5
The Four Sources of ResilienceRelational Resilience:Your greatest motivation to not give up is the knowledge that others depend onyou. You draw strength from the emotional support of others.You turn outward by serving in the moment.You realize that your greatest power comes from human connection.Street Resilience:You take the pain of social inequality, disrespect, and mistakes and use it as fuel topropel you forward. You convert rage into the energy to create positive outcomes.You direct your hurt, anger, and rage toward a cause rather than an individual.You have the ability to reframe your limitations and transform them intostrengths.Resource Resilience:You recognize that your resilience can be increased by tapping into the resourcesavailable to you. You fight resignation with spontaneity.You recognize that your resources include talents, relationships, physicalassets, personality traits, and work ethic.You realize that you have undeveloped talents and untapped capabilities thatyou can also use or develop.Rock Bottom Resilience:When you’re at your lowest point, you believe in your ability to change yourcircumstances, combat hopelessness, and fight on. You take control of the present, knowing that losing in the past does not equallosing in the future.You are able to believe in potential unforeseen options even during your mostdifficult times.You refuse to be defined by the negative labels you’ve been given, whether byyourself or others.Flipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience6
relational resiliencenounWhen your greatest motivation to make gooddecisions, put more effort into life, and not giveup is the knowledge that others depend on you.You also draw strength from the emotionalsupport of friends, family members, deceasedloved ones, a pet, or even a stranger who smilesyour way. These support systems can come fromsimple or in-depth interactions. You recognizethat influence is reciprocal, and that you can bothgive and receive resilience in the ways youapproach your interactions with others throughoutyour life, even those that seem trivial andmundane.“When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embracethe beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.”Jaeda De WaltArtist, Poetwww.whytry.org (866) 949-87917
street resiliencenounYou take the pain of disrespect,discrimination, and regret and use it as fuelto propel you forward. Street Resilience ischanneling your emotions - guiding them,directing them, and using them for aproductive purpose, instead of letting youremotions use you.“What hurt me in the past has actually made me betterequipped to face the present.”Steve GoodierAuthor, ‘Joy Along the Way’Flipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience8
resource resiliencenounYou recognize that your resilience can beincreased by tapping into the resourcesyour currently possess or could potentiallypossess. Not only do you maximize yourtalents, mindset, abilities, relationships,money, physical assets, and personalitytraits, you also realize that you haveundeveloped talents and untappedcapabilities that you can use or develop.“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - farmore flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”Jodi PicoultAuthor, ‘My Sister’s Keeper’www.whytry.org (866) 949-87919
rock bottom resiliencenounYou have the ability to flip the switch whenyou’re at your lowest point. Rock BottomResilience allows you to believe in yourability to change your circumstances,combat hopelessness, and fight on. It helpsyou believe in potential unforeseen optionseven during your most difficult times. And itmakes you increasingly aware that losing inthe past does not equal losing in the future.“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, butin rising every time we fall.”Nelson MandelaFlipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience10
ResilienceBreakthrough:The27 Tools for Turning Adversity into ActionA Guide to Resilience: How to Bounce Backfrom Life’s Inevitable ProblemsIn The Resilience Breakthrough, WhyTry Founder Christian Moore delivers aprimer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability andnarrowing opportunity, whether you’re facing financial troubles, health setbacks,challenges on the job, or any other problem. We can all have our own resiliencebreakthrough, and can each learn how to use adverse circumstances as potentfuel for overcoming life’s hardships.As he share engaging real-life stories and brutally honest analysis of his ownexperiences, Moore equips you with twenty-seven resilience-building tools that youcan start using today -- in your personal life or in your organiation.“There is not a topic of greater urgency for the future than resilience. And there is not anauthor more qualified to teach it than Christian Moore.”-Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Crucial Conversationsand Influencer: The New Science of Leading ChangeHave your breakthrough today.www.whytry.org/bookwww.whytry.org (866) 949-879111
Resilience BreakthroughStaff Development WorkshopThe Resilience Breakthrough staff development workshop introduces participantsto the key concepts and skills from WhyTry Founder Christian Moore’s new book,“The Resilience Breakthrough.” The one-day workshop provides tangible toolsthat can help anyone -- including the most struggling students -- convert life’sadversities and setbacks into powerful action. Other programs have taught theattributes of resilience, but few have been able to teach the skills. Come experience: “Resilience is the great An in-depth self-assessment to help you reflect on your personal strengthsand weaknessesExperiential activities illustrating specific concepts in the trainingCoaching on how to put several “resilience boosters” into actionPowerful videos of real-life resilienceequalizer -- Ittranscends race, gender,culture, socio-economicstatus, the neighborhoodyou grew up in, the familyyou were raised in, and“I used to be very resilient as a youth and young adult, buthave allowed some trials to lower my self-confidence. Thetraining helped me recapture my self-empowerment.”-Jen Holden, licensed clinical social worker, Utahany otheraspect of yourenvironment.”literally-Christian Moore, MSWAuthor, The ResilienceBreakthrough“This was by far the best thing I’ve ever attended.”-Malcolm Isom, special education teacher, GeorgiaThis was the single most inspiring workshop I’ve ever beento. I connected to the message and content very deeply both personally and professionally.”-Susan Arnink, counselor, New MexicoCall (866) 949-8791 to learn more.Flipping the Switch: Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience12
Flipping the Switch Strategies for Unleashing Student Resilience 12 Resilience Breakthrough Staff Development Workshop “Resilience is the great equalizer-- It transcends race, gender, culture, socio-economic status, the neighborhood you grew up in, the family you were raised
