08 Oct 2011
The Resilience Doughnut.
Resilience has been defined as the ability to cope with difficulties in life. It is the ability to cope with stress and remain hopeful when life's difficulties occur.
Mrs Price attended a 2 day Resilience Doughnut course in Bathurst last week and now the children are being involved in using the Resilience Doughnut in their Personal Development and Health sessions this week.
The middle of the doughnut represents how we view ourselves. It consists of:
I have …
I am ….
I can ….
This uses positive language and thinking.
The doughnut is divided into seven sections, each representing a factor in our lives which makes us resilient when times are difficult. These seven factors form a ring around the person in the middle and become protective factors from the inevitable stress and adversities that a person faces in a lifetime.
The seven factors include: The Skill Factor, The Parent Factor, The family and Identity Factor, The Education Factor, The Peer Group Factor, The Community Factor and The Money Factor.
The students have worked with the Resilience Doughnut every day this week and Primary students have worked through a set of questions to determine their three strongest factors which are their strengths. They then shared these and thought of activities to link their three strengths to make them and the other factors stronger in their lives.
The Resilience Doughnut was devised by professionals who have participated in extensive research into what makes people strong. They claim that: ‘An individual only needs to have three external factors working well for them in order to build the level of resilience they need to manage the world. Our task is to find three strong factors and manage them to work even stronger.'