We Make Resilience Training a Part of a School's Culture

We make it easy for schools to deliver evidence-based resilience training to their entire communities, including parents, without having to train instructors or reorganize schedules. We do this by providing a content library, email sequences, and eCourses that unite the entire school community around weekly skill-building conversation topics that can be had in the classroom, on the athletic field, and at the dinner table.

Empower the Conversation, Empower the Child

We help schools strengthen and enrich their communities by making resilience training a part of the daily conversation. We do this by supplying resilience-building conversation prompts that are sent via email and provide everything teachers and parents need to start meaningful conversations about specific resilience skills in two minutes or less.

Each week, a “Skill-of-the-Week Conversation Starter” lands in everyone’s inbox uniting the entire school community—students, teachers, staff and families—around a resilience skill that anyone from elementary school to college can understand and talk about.

We believe conversations are our most important tool for teaching, bonding, and modeling emotional intelligence and empowered behavior for our kids.

Our Conversation Starters pull from an evidence-based curriculum and give schools and parents the tools they need to have conversations that not only build resilience in individuals but also strengthen family units and the school community as a whole.

Build Resilience One Two-Minute Conversation at a Time

This evidence-based, bite-sized, resilience-building program requires no training or pre-work, nor does it require hours of extra time to be fit into an already busy week. Just pull up the email, read it aloud, ask a Conversation Starter, and then listen to what your students say. 

Even if you only have couple of minutes, these conversations will have a meaningful impact.

Conversation Starter

Read this to your students/children:

Resilient people know that many things in life are out of their control, but managing their emotions is within their control.

So, instead of waiting for things outside their control to change, they identify the emotions they want to feel and take action to make that happen.

When we are in a crisis, we think the situation needs to change in order for us to feel better.

“If only this stupid virus would go away. If only we could start playing sports again. If only I could hang out with my friends like normal.”
 
It’s easy to believe that if the situation does not change, we are doomed to feeling unhappy. But that is simply not true. There is always a way to feel better, even if we cannot change the situation.
 
Start by identifying the positive emotions you would feel if the situation changed. For example, identify how you will feel when the shutdown is over and you can start playing sports and hanging out with your friends again.
 
Then find some way to feel those emotions that is within your control. If you open your mind and get creative, you can always find ways to feel better emotionally.

Ask one of these questions, and share your answers, too:

• "What is the worst thing about this pandemic for you and what negative emotions does it bring up for you?"
• "How you will feel when the shutdown is over and life gets back to "normal" again? Name the specific positive emotions you will feel."
• "How else could you feel those positive emotions? What is something that is in your control that you could do to feel those positive emotions?"
• "Can you describe a time in your past that you made yourself feel better even when you could not change something out of your control?"
• "What is your greatest tool for making yourself feel better? What works most often when you want to shift into a better mood?"