The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox: Building Character and Competence through Life's Ups and Downs

This fully updated second edition is a practical guide for parents, teachers and other professionals to create cultures of resilience and wellbeing in schools, homes and health care settings. Students will build lifelong competencies to improve their emotional regulation, empathy, persistence, problem solving, mindset, optimism, gratitude, kindness and values; improving their psychological readiness to bounce back from life’s ups and downs.

Alongside new lesson plans that are even easier to follow and specific guidance on how to meet criteria on social emotional learning frameworks, the lively and engaging resources in this book include:

• Practical, photocopiable guide sheets and worksheets, also available as eResources via www.positivemindsaustralia.com.au
• Adaptable role plays and activities
• Solid research-based strategies
• A flexible framework that can be creatively implemented in classrooms, homes and health care settings
• Parent tips at the end of each chapter

This is a must-have handbook for anyone seeking to provide young people in their care with a strong foundation for life long social, emotional and learning outcomes.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dr John Kinniburgh

Introduction

1. Being grateful, hopeful and keeping life in perspective.
2. Values, authenticity, character and integrity.
3. Empathy and a sense of belonging.
4. Problem solving.
5. Managing emotions.
6. Learning through mistakes, using a growth mindset.
7. Persistence, motivation and self-efficacy.
8. Goal setting.

Index

"The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is a fantastic resource which challenges us as parents/carers to think about how we can further support our children. It offers helpful strategies and worksheets on problem solving, compromise, stress management, goal setting and more."
- Leanne Kutschbach, Parent

"The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is a wonderful assemblage of Madhavis ideas, strategies and learnings from many years of nourishing families and young people and their schools."
- Jamie Holland, Dean of Student Welfare, Pembroke School, South Australia

"The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is an exceptionally valuable resource for educators looking for hands-on ideas to promote childrens' social and emotional wellbeing."
- Dr Sue Roffey, FRSA, Associate Professor (adjunct) School of Education, Western Sydney University, Australia.

"A flexible social-emotional learning framework for building knowledge, skills, habits, routines and rituals that encourage lifelong resilience and wellbeing. An incredible resource for School Psychologists and other educators. The toolbox provides caring adults with a guide for teaching young people to build skills and competencies in life areas such as empathy, problem solving, managing emotions, learning through mistakes using a growth mindset, learning to persist, setting goals, developing and nurturing gratitude, hope and balance, becoming aware of personal values and maintaining authenticity, integrity and character. The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is a treasure for anyone interested in implementing practices of positive education and social-emotional learning."
- Rebecca Comizio, Nationally Certified Psychologist & Licensed Professional Counsellor, New Canaan, CT, USA.

"The ethereal concepts of confidence, resilience, empathy, flexibility, optimism, independence, respect, gratitude, mindfulness and more are taught through step-by-step lessons in this practical, inclusive manual to we as adults and to our young people."
- Lindy Petersen, Clinical Psychologist and author, Stop, Think, Do, social-emotional literacy program.