Enhancing Resilience 2 links to The Arts

Coping

Making meaning 

Making stressburgers - metaphors for stress - page 25

Stressful self-talk

Looking under the surface - pages 28-29

What is self-talk? - pages 29-30

Picture it - draw a picture to express feelings - page 30

Stress under the surface (worksheet) - page 31

Getting into your head - positive and negative self-talk (worksheet) - page 32

Getting it said 

Role-play explanation - pages 51-52

Persuading a friend to seek help - pages 52-53

Telling someone you need help - pages 53-54

Seeking help for a friend - pages 54-55

Talking heads (worksheet) - page 56

The experts speak

The experts speak - chat show ‘How the modern teenager copes with the stresses of modern life’ - pages 60-61

Protective layers 

Costume race - pages 77-78

Getting attention, reaching goals, protection from negative thoughts and put-downs, building protective layers around self sample questions - page 78 

Difficult decisions 

SharkMeat role-play - pages 84-85

Processing questions for players - page 85

Sample questions - page 86

SharkMeat cards (templates) - page 87