Pratt’s Center for Teaching and Learning is committed to supporting faculty so they can more intentionally integrate wellbeing practices into classroom and studio content, activities, and assignments. Participants from our COMPOSE project, and WelCoMe projects have began learning about and sharing with each other contemplative practices, skills from positive education and experimenting with various skills and mindsets that support the ‘whole student’.
Covid19 Resilience and Wellbeing Resources for faculty
***To be shared widely with colleagues, students, family and friends***
RESILIENCE
Resilience is your ability to cope with and bounce back from stress and adversity, and hopefully even grow through the experience. We refer to this “thriving” and not just surviving.
Resilient people are more likely to …
- meet the demands of their academic/work and personal lives successfully
- take action to deal with challenges, problems, and setbacks
- seek support and assistance when they need it
- know when to stop, rest, and replenish inner resources
- have a sense of independence, self-efficacy, and self-worth
- form and maintain positive, mutually-respectful relationships with others
- have a sense of purpose and goals for the future
Resilience is not a fixed state, it can be learned, practiced, developed, and strengthened.
“In the context of exposure to significant adversity, whether psychological, environmental, or both, resilience is both the capacity of individuals to navigate their way to health-sustaining resources, including opportunities to experience feelings of well-being, and a condition of the individual’s family, community and culture to provide these health resources and experiences in culturally meaningful ways.” – Michael Ungar, Resilience Across Cultures (2008)
Radical Resilience Framework:
- Social and Healing Justice
- Self Compassion
- Purposeful Action
- Harnessing Strengths
- Community and Belonging
- Collective Care and Support
ARTICLES and RESOURCES
- Six daily questions to ask yourself in quarantine
- Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus
- CDC: Stress and Coping
- HBR: That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief
- Coping with Radical Uncertainty
- Dealing with Zoom Exhaustion
- Ignoring Coronavirus-inspired Productivity Pressure
- Center for Mindful Self-Compassion: 10 Self-Compassion Practices for COVID-19
- 11 Ways to Stay Calm
- How to Deal with Stress in College During Covid-19 (for students)
APPS
- Sanvello app: A place to feel better and find meaningful connection (this is a great app available for free premium access during the COVID-19 crisis)
- Headspace app: Weathering the Storm
- Ipnos: Relaxation and Sleep App
GRATITUDE and COMPASSION
- Developing a Gratitude Practice
- Consider using an online journal
- Do this Time Capsule activity
- Try this Three Funny Things exercise
- Practice these Self-Compassion Exercises or take a Break
- Explore these Gratefulness resources
STRENGTHS
- Remind yourself and your students: You are Strong, your Character strengths matter (list of TED talks), the importance of Failure, it’s ok to confront your Shame, that failure cultivates Resilience, it’s possible to recover from Tragedy, trauma can teach us about Resilience
- Stay Mentally Strong
- Strengths-based Resilience Lessons
- The Science of Wellbeing – Free course on Coursera
MINDFULNESS
- Mindful Pratt resources and events
- Pratt Meditation Incubator Resources
- Three Minute Breathing
- Mindful Harlem resources and Free Online Meditation sessions
- Free mindfulness practices