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TOD Wellbeing Focus January 2018

BUILDING RESILIENCE AND WELLBEING  
New Zealand Institute of Wellbeing and Resilient
Lucy Hone and Denise Quinlan


Unwanted and unexpected change is often forced upon us.  We cannot control our life circumstances, we can control our response.
What determines happiness?   
Genetics and actions/thoughts are more significant than external circumstances.  
Focusing on what you can change and influence.
Important to be able to show your vulnerability, acknowledge it and share with your colleagues/friends/family.
Positive Psychology is about keeping people on the positive side of wellbeing.  Rather than deficit thinking.
POSITIVE EDUCATION is about putting wellbeing at the very heart of the school.
The Science of Wellbeing with Best Practice teaching.
Pastoral Care - reactionary, targeted, deficit-based.
vs
Positive Education - preventative, universal (whole community), strengths-based
Regulation of Emotions
Growth Mindsets
Character Ed
Strengthening relationships
Positive Emotions
Mindfulness - Pause, Smile, Breathe
Goal planning - will power and way power  (the why and the how) Shane Lopez
Optimism vs Pessimism (tiger vs eeyore)
Avoiding thinking traps (ie catastrophising)
Perseverance, engagement and quality of relationships.
What will be our framework to hang our work on?  
PERMA, Five ways to wellbeing, Whare tapawha model.
Moments of flow are important.  What is it that gives you flow?   Moments where you are completely present, focused and completely swept up in the moment of what you are doing.

WELLBEING is simply feeling good and functioning well.
(Huppert and So, 2009, University of Cambridge)

How can we promote wellbeing in school communities?
Have started doing mindfulness and growth mindset work in 2017.
Have done some work in character education and looking and the strengths of children.
Five Ways to Wellbeing (All right Model).
Hauora Model right through our Health and PE programme.

NZIWR Roadmap for developing systematic whole-school wellbeing strategies 2017 (Quinlan and Hone)

Start with the staff
Learn it - Live it - Teach it - Embed it

Wellbeing Champion - JP Leader / JW and NW and JC

CHARACTER STRENGTHS
Understanding, noticing and using character strengths will help you flourish.

www.viacharacter.org - for identifying character strengths. Not fixed and are contextualised based on what is going on.

My top 5 from today's paper survey:
Love, Love of Learning, Hope, Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, Kindness.
(also social intelligence)

What is right with you?
Who are you at your best?
When do you feel the most you?
How can you feel the most you most often?

Need to know them and find ways to use them. Things we do well, do often, do with energy.

Coursera courses. Subscriptions from $67 a month.

Lea Waters, The Strength Switch (2017)
www.strengthswitch.com

Strengths resources:
www.characterlab.org
www.atmybest.com

Parents. Write us a short paragraph about when you child is at their best, a story about a time when they were using one of their strengths.

Breens Values and Character Strengths

Belonging - team work, leadership,

Brave - Bravery,

Bold - Zest, Hope, Humour, Curiosity

Beautiful - Love, Forgiveness, Fairness, Faith

Brilliant - Creativity,

GRATITUDE is about choosing what we focus on. Three good things each day. Three stones in your pocket (use as reminders). #htgs Hunt the Good stuff.

GRIT. Passion and perseverance for long term goals.

 Ted Talks. Angela Duckworth, 2016.

 wwwl.learningpitchallenge.com

 Use examples of successful people to demonstrate success.

 www.characterlab.org/woop
wish outcome obstacle plan

Wish are you when you come up against an obstacle
Carrot - soft
Harder - egg
Gets better - cocoa into chocolate

 FAIL - first attempt in learning

 Positive Ed is about being realistic and accurate, not just about positive thinking.

 MHERC - Katie Hook, Megan McMahon (School Based Mental Health Team)
holistic, responsive and strengths based approach.

 All Right campaign - based on the five ways to wellbeing

 Sparklers resources
Mini-missions to help you feel good  Get Appy!
hikitia te hā (a bit like A=Māori ti chi

















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