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Resilience Series - Nurture A Positive View of Yourself - English
Resilience Series - Nurture A Positive View of Yourself - English
Resilience Series - Nurture A Positive View of Yourself - English
NURTURE A
POSITIVE VIEW OF
YOURSELF
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FACILITATORS NOTES
THE GOALS:
Hints, suggestions
and ideas for the
facilitator...
SPECIFIC DELIVERABLES:
Each participant makes a commitment to 2 positive actions
and reports these back at the next departmental meeting. It is
recommended that the group revisits this commitment to
ensure that it is sustained.
Secondly, to show it is
possible to recognise
ways to create and
maintain a positive
mindset.
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DONT
TRY
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HINTS, SUGGESTIONS
AND IDEAS FOR THE
FACILITATOR...
(MESSAGE)
Developing and maintaining a positive view of yourself is an
important mindset that helps you improve your performance,
achievements and your quality of life.
Its not about smiling and denying the negative
aspects of reality
It is an effective realistic approach that improves your
state of mind, leading to improved thought patterns
and more options
It will make a real difference in your life
It is a choice
It is a skill that can be learnt.
Life is not always predictable and problems routinely occur.
How you personally deal with a problem can depend on a
positive or negative mindset. Routinely approaching these
issues from a positive side will help you maintain your positive
view of yourself. Changing the way in which we view a
situation is called reframing. The purpose of reframing is to
help a person experience their actions, the impact of their
beliefs, etc. from a different perspective (frame) and
potentially be more resourceful or have more choice in how
they react. Changing the frame of an experience can have a
major influence on how you perceive, interpret and react to
that experience.
Its your view and your choice as to how you view yourself
If a problem arises you can choose to focus on the negative or
acknowledge it and start to define what the way forward is.
This classic glass is half full or half empty mindset. (For the
EXERCISE 1:
(ACTION) REFRAMING (+/- 15 Min)
EXERCISE 1
Give a personal example of reframing or use this example to
share with the group:
A father brought his head-strong daughter to see Milton
Erickson-the famous hypnotherapist. He said to Erickson, My
daughter doesnt listen to me or her mother. She is always
expressing her own opinion
After the father had finished describing his daughters problem
Erickson replied, Now isnt it good that she will be able to
stand on her own two feet when she is ready to leave home?
The father sat in stunned silence.
That was the extent of the therapy the father now saw his
daughters behaviour as a useful resource for later in her life
(ACTION)
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GROUP DISCUSSION:
Did you find it easy to reframe the negative comment?
It is easy to see why some people have positive feeling and
some negative feelings about the same situation that they
were confronted with. There is however definite benefit from
having positive thoughts as opposed to negative ones?
Reframing comes
naturally to some
people but others need
more practice.
Emphasise that
everyone has the
choice in decision
making and ultimately
we do have control of
our thoughts and
feelings.
EXERCISE 2:
Exercise 2
(READ AS WRITTEN)
The meaning of communication is in the response it gets.
Words are a very powerful part of how we communicate and
sometimes our choice of words may not always have the
effect we intend.
This exercise is about the impact that using three little words
can have on your perception of communication and on your
communication with those around you whose responses may
be part of the feedback you use to maintain your view of
yourself. The three words are BUT, TRY and DONT.
(ACTION):
Divide the group into smaller groups of approximately 4.
Distribute the 3 word exercise sheets (one for each word) to
the group and assign each to a different person.
Ask the person with the sheet to lead the exercise for that
particular word and rotate through the group for each word.
The fourth member of the team acts as an observer.
Lead a discussion with the whole group at the end of the
exercise
GROUP DISCUSSION:
What impact do the words have on the meaning of
communication?
Does this impact how you perceive the person?
Do the words impact your response to the communication?
EXERCISE 3:
DONT
Phrase is as you want
and phrase it in the
positive.
Example : Dont think
of a blue elephant
immediately takes you
to a blue elephant.
Hints, suggestions and
ideas for the
facilitator.
(ACTION):
1. Divide the group into smaller groups of 3 or more
2. Distribute Exercise 3 to each group and ask them to follow
the instructions
3. Encourage discussion with the whole group at the end of
the exercise
GROUP DISCUSSION:
Is there an impact on your state of mind by focusing on
problem or outcome?
Do we always focus on both?
END OF EXERCISE
SUMMARY
STATE:
To embed a behavioural change it is necessary for us to
choose to make the change and then revisit, reinforce and
practice.
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(ACTION) Please register all the participants.
After you have delivered the module to the team, make sure
that you register all the participants - its easy!
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
For you
It is a record of your activity as a facilitator in delivering
modules, to demonstrate the work you have done.
If participating in the resilience survey is part of your GPA or
IDP, it provides evidence you have done this work.
For the program
Helps us understand the global reach of the resilience program
what countries is it being delivered in, how frequently are
modules run.
It allows us to refocus modules that are not used or less
effective and learn from those that really work.
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REINFORCE
(MESSAGE)
This part takes place after the session and is critical for
success. If the changes and techniques discussed are going to
succeed and to become routine practice that improves
resilience, individuals need to do work to reinforce the
changes and use the learning. Reinforcement is best achieved
by a variety of approaches and by individuals integrating the
concept into their routine daily activities. You can assist by a
variety of means
(ACTION)
Please select some reinforcement activity form the
suggestions below, use the feedback from the session, or
create your own.
Some options:
1. Personally review the outcome of the module, how did it
look, did it feel as if the team were buying in, what were
your personal learnings?
2. Discuss with the group at the next meeting if the learnings
from the module were put into practice.
3. Implement a Try/But/Dont count in meetings and emails
keep it light and keep reinforcing eg:
Ask someone to keep scores at the next team meeting
Unfortunately, like
many parts of life, if
you want to improve,
you need to work on it.
Does reframing the comment into a positive change how you think
about the issue or even impact your mood?
Do you have the ability to impact your own mood?
Are you an equally effective decision maker when you have flu or
when you are feeling well?
Are you a more effective decision maker when you feel more
positive or negative?
Does making good decisions impact how you feel about yourself?
TRY
DONT
BUT