Workshop 1

Since the pandemic began, the term “resilience” has been a buzzword, but not necessarily in a helpful way. We loved the understanding of resilience that Jeanie and Joan shared with us in the Appreciative Resilience Facilitator Training, and we wanted to support faculty in supporting their students in this understanding. We saw from the workshop that fostering student resilience would be beneficial to student learning, so we focused our two faculty workshops on that.

The first workshop took place on Friday, February 17. Six people registered for the first workshop, and three attended. This workshop focused on how Appreciative Resilience could support student learning, and we shared an activity faculty could use in their own classrooms: a PQS (Positive, Question, Suggestion). We had a rich and productive discussion, and we were happy to see that the concepts and models resonated with participants.

The workshop description and full slide deck are below. To view the slides, hover over the image below with your mouse, and click the arrows that appear at the bottom right-hand corner of the image.

Fostering Resilience in the Classroom, Part 1

Fostering resilience in our classrooms is important—and it’s become especially important as a result of the pandemic—as resilience can help students persist with their educational goals, despite uncertainty and potential setbacks. But how do we do this? In this session, we will share models of Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Resilience, and together we will explore how these models can be enacted in your classroom to develop increased resilience for students and ourselves.