1. Managing stress And Develop Your Personal Resilience

2. Managing Stress

3. What Is Stress
A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances.
Stress is a life event or situation that causes imbalance in an individual’s life ( positive or negative ).
Stressors could be major life events, daily hassles, things from the physical environment, relationships with others, thoughts, feelings, or physical maladies that have negative impact.

4. Need to know about stress
Stress can be both positive and negative
Stress is a result of both inside the body and outside the body factors
Everybody has the capacity to alter their stress reactions.
The best way to understand the stress cycle is from a holistic approach (mind, body, environment)
Todays world has more stressful stimuli than ever before

5. Positive OR Negative Stress
Getting new shoes
(School dance) Asking someone to the dance
Backstage pass to see Fall Out Boy
Passing a Testing
Choosing what high school to attend
Moving from elementary to middle school
Not doing you homework
Birthday coming up
Christmas coming up

6. The Nature of Stress From The Inside Ourselves
Desire to perform well
Wanting to feel “in control” of situations
Attitude and outlook on situations
Personal choices :

7. The Nature of Stress From The Inside Ourselves
Desire to perform well ( Sports, test, school) the pressure we put on ourselves

8. The Nature of Stress From The Inside Ourselves
Attitude and outlook on situations (positive or negative)
Think of the three Ws. what when well

9. The Nature of Stress From The Inside Ourselves
Wanting to feel “in control” of situations (Juggling too many things)

10. The Nature of Stress From The Inside Ourselves
Personal choices : diet or not, taking time to relax and what to do ( your choice )

11. The Nature of Stress From Outside Ourselves
Physical environment
Social
Organizational
Major life events

12. The Nature of Stress From Outside Ourselves
Environmental stressor are conditions or event in your physical environment that causes you stress ( poverty, Noise, natural disaster weather, room temperature, orders, family ).

13. The Nature of Stress From Outside Ourselves
Social (disagreement, conflict, relationships, social media)

14. The Nature of Stress From Outside Ourselves
Organizational work / school tasks and deadlines

15. The Nature of Stress From Outside Ourselves
Major life events (marriage of a parent, new baby, illness, going to high school)

16. Review What Next Stress can be positive or negative
Stress is a result of both inside the body and outside the body factors
Most common type of stress are Outside Ourselves and Inside Ourselves
Outside Ourselves (environment)
Inside Ourselves (Attitude and outlook on situations)
What Next

17. Resiliency ?

18. Resiliency Defined They are many definitions
A pattern of positive adaptation in the context of past or present adversity (Wright & Masten, 2005).
A set of inner resources, social competencies, and cultural strategies that permit individuals to not only survive, but recover, or even thrive after stressful events, but also to draw from the experience to enhance subsequent functioning (Stanton-Salazar & Spina, 2000).

19. Resiliency
The ability to rapidly adapt and respond to challenging situations
To not only bounce back, but to thrive under challenging conditions.” – Brigadier Cornum
What is personal resilience?

20. What is personal resilience?
Ability to perform effectively under pressure
Bounce back from difficult circumstances
Manage our overall health and wellbeing
Understand how to achieve optimal performance
Adapt to hardships and setbacks in life

21. Develop your personal resilience
What do you observe about yourself when you are resilient?
What happens the rest of the time?

22. Develop your personal resilience
What’s the impact?
Mentally
Socially/Behavioral signs
Emotionally
Physically

23. Develop Your Personal Resilience
Be patient and slow down
Know when to ask for help
Stress can be normal
Create a plan

24. Develop Your Personal Resilience
Write down a brief description of something in school that is a stressful or an issue for you at the moment.
Recognize the stressful feeling and write down how that issue makes you feel.
Press the pause button
Shift your focus breath in for 5 seconds. Out for 5 seconds
Ask what would be a more efficient and effective response to the situation and what can I control.
Write down the first thoughts. Words or ideas that occur to you on your worksheet.

25. Develop Your Personal Resilience By Building Mental Toughness:
They are many definitions
is a collection of attributes that allow a person to persevere through difficult circumstances
A personality trait which determines in large part how people deal with challenges, stressors and pressure.

26. Building Mental Toughness
Drive: Understanding our drive
Control: Understanding what we can and can’t control
Performance: Understanding how to think clearly under pressure
Resilience: Understanding how to keep things in perspective.

27. What Does Resilience and Mental Toughness Have In Common?
Resilience and Mental Toughness are both developed though individual attributes or (traits) of the person

28. Attributes (Traits) Get connected Find meaning Laugh
Learn from experience
Remain hopeful
Keep a Journal
Accept and anticipate change
Work toward a goal
Maintain perspective