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As teachers it is essential that we build resilience in our students. This in turn will help students overcome
their loss. One of these frameworks was developed by Steven and Sybil Wolin. This framework is known as:
The Seven Resiliencies
- Insight: The habit of asking tough questions which pierce the denial and confusion
in troubled families
- Independence: Emotional and physical distancing from a troubled family which keeps survivors out
of harm’s way
- Relationships: Fulfilling ties to others that provide the stability, nurturing, and love
that troubled families do not give
- Initiative: A push for mastery that combats the feeling of helplessness troubled families
produce in their offspring
- Creativity: Representing one’s inner pain and hurtful experiences in art forms-“
building a new world on the ruins of the old”
- Humour: The ability to minimize pain and troubles by laughing at oneself
- Morality: An informed conscience which imbues the survivor surrounded by “
badness” with a sense of his or her own “goodness”.
(source: Wolin &
Wolin, 1993)
For each of the seven resiliencies
we have described three developmental phases: child, adolescent, and adult. In children, resiliencies appear as unformed,
non-goal oriented, intuitively motivated behavior. In adolescents, these behaviors sharpen and become deliberate. In adults,
they broaden and deepen, becoming an enduring part of the self. For instance, insight begins with sensing in childhood,
becomes knowing in adolescence, and matures into understanding in adulthood.
We have shown the developmental phases on concentric circles in the resiliency mandala
http://www.projectresilience.com/framesproducts.htm
This site has multiple resiliency
models eg Circle of Courage
http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/EDSPC715_MCINTYRE/PsychoEdModel.html
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Building cooperative learning
At school children learn to cooperate with each other
Building resiliency in children is vital to their emotional well being.
Children who are resilient will bounce back after a loss.
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