The Pay-It-Forward Citizen Transformational Resilience Program©
In the Pay-It-Forward Citizen Self-Care TR workshop, individuals that participated in a Leaders Self-Care TR workshop are taught how to teach the skills they learned to their family, friends, and colleagues. The goal is to continually expand TR skills throughout the community.
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The first part of the workshop includes a review and practice of the skills taught during the Leaders Self-Care TR workshop. Participants are also taught the principles and practices of effective teaching methods.
Participants are then engaged in exercises to help them acknowledge the TR skills they excel in and those they need help with. This information offers a starting point for effective teaching because it is difficult for an instructor to teach skills that they do not have a good understanding of themselves.
The remainder of the workshop will focus on learning how to teach resilience skills to other people in a logical order. Working in dyads, triads, and small groups, participants will instruct other group members in how to use a skill. They will then receive constructive feedback from other participants and the workshop instructors on the effectiveness of their teaching methods and areas needing improvement. After one practice session is completed, participants will practice teaching the next skill. Problem solving sessions will be intermixed throughout the day. As well, strategies for responding to unexpected reactions will be discussed and practiced.
At the end of the workshop a local TR teachers support group(s) will be organized to allow participants to continue over time to improve their capacity to teach the skills to others, trouble shoot, identify target groups, and in other ways continue to expand the TR skills throughout the community.
What Type of Knowledge and Skills Will Participants Learn?
- The principles and practices of effective self-care teaching methods.
- Methods to teach others about the effects of adversity-triggered hyperarousal on individual and group perception, problem solving, behavior, and health.
- Methods for teaching somatic (body-based) calming techniques, Mindfulness (awareness-based) centering skills; Cognitive (thought-based) coping skills, and Strength (innovation-based) skills such as Adversity-based Growth.
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