BUILDING RESILIENCE: Resilience building activities for Teenagers.

Building Resilience:

This involves developing skills, methods, ways and strategies to cope with adversity, trauma or stress.

Building resilience is a powerful tool for navigating life's challenges.

Resilience:

It is the ability of people or things to feel better or bounce back from difficult experiences, adapt to change, return to it's original shape and navigate uncertainty.

       Resilience building helps to overcome and fight stress, depression and anxiety.

Key components of resilience building:

1. Emotional Regulation:

   * Create "self awareness". Try to identify your strengths and weakness.

   * Learn to manage your mood. Put your mood and emotional expressions under control.

   * Emotional recognition & stress             reduction should be observed.

2. Optimism:

   * Learn to focus on positive solutions.

   * Inculcate positive self-talk.

   * Reframe negative thoughts.

   * Expression of gratitude should be            practiced.

   * Celebrate winnings and successes.

3. Social support:

   * Practice effective communication.

   * Nurture relationships.

   * Build a support network.

   * Seek help when needed.

   * Involve in a public gathering and join        community.

4. Problem solving:

   * Identify problems and develop      solutions.

   * Take action and evaluate progress.

Manage tasks.

5. Flexibility:

   * Be free and open minded, don't be timid.

   * Develop coping skills and learn from failures and past mistakes.

   * Practice adaptability.

   * Embrace change.

6. Purpose:

   * Discover values, passions and your abilities.

   * Set and build meaningful, mind-blowing goals.

   * "Be a vector quantity" by practicing and developing a sense of focus and direction.

   * Find purpose in challenges and difficulties and not judge.

   * Cultivate a growth mindset.

Resilience building activities for teenagers:

1. Individual Activities:

   * Mindful Exercises i.e practicing meditation, deep breathing, yoga etc.

   * Record gratitude's daily by having a gratitude log book.

   * Indulge in journaling, reflect on thoughts, emotions and experiences.

   * Set goals, identify and work towards achievable goals.

   * Practice self-care routines, establish healthy habits (exercise, sleep, nutrition).

2. Group Activities:

   * Involve in team-building games, foster collaboration and communication.

   * Practice coping skills and conflict resolution.

   * Practice creativities and encourage critical thinking.

   * Explore group discussions.

   * Develop social responsibility, empathy and volunteer work.

3. Outdoor Activities:

   * Involve in outdoor adventures e.g hiking, camping, visiting a beach etc.

   * Develop resilience thru competition in sporting activities and games.

   * Practice nature-based activities e.g Gardening, conservation, and Learn to foster connection with environment.

   * Encourage scavenger hunts, (A game in which players have to find various objects).

   * Involve in outdoor reflection sessions; combine nature and self-reflection.

4. Creative Activities:

   * Art therapy. Express emotions thru art.

   * Develop self-expression and confidence with Music 🎶 and dancing activities/classes.

   * Explore resilience thru creative writing and story telling.

   * Photograph: capture amazing themed images.

   * Involve in drama or theater.

      Building resilience is a powerful tool for navigating life's challenges. By developing emotional regulation, self awareness optimism, social support, problem-solving, flexibility, self care, positive relationships, coping skills, meanings and purposes, individual can cultivate resilience.

Some famous inspirational Resilience building quotes;

1. Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb.

2. The best way out is always through - Robert frost.

3. Tough times never last, but tough people do - 

Robert H. Schull

4. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising Everytime we fall. - Nelson Mandela

5. Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and responsibility to pick yourself up -

Mary Holloway

6. Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more RESILIENT -

Steve Maraboli.