***MINIMUM 300 WORDS Purpose: Get students to connect their own experiences with
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***MINIMUM 300 WORDS
Purpose: Get students to connect their own experiences with resilience and loss to relevant positive psychology research and theory.
1.What is an example of “flourishing under fire “ and resilience from you own experience? (Can be yourself or someone you know.) Describe in some detail.
2. What might explain (internal or external causes) the basis of this resilience? What helped you or the person you describe make it through the experience and what did you learn from this experience?
Explanation / Answer
My example is a story about a photojournalist called Giles Duley, who I came across when I saw his TED talk online. Wanting to use his photography to do something useful in the world, he started to document the stories of people facing challenging situations. Spending time with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, people in care homes in the UK and street children in the Ukraine, his pictures opened a window into how adversities are lived with.
“Stories of resilience tend to have turning points where something shifts, new possibilities are opened and unexpected opportunities found”
2) The adversity faced is…
Resilience is about our ability to withstand, deal with and recover from difficult situations. So in this second section, you describe the adversity faced by the main character of your story. For Giles Duley, the adversity faced was stepping on a landmine while at work with his camera in Afghanistan. He lost three of his limbs. He thought his life as a photographer was over.
3) What helps here is…
What is it that helps resilience happen? For each person there may be choices they make, resources they turn to, strengths they draw upon or insights they apply. By becoming interested in the steps people take that help them deal with adversity we learn more about how resilience is done. For Giles Duley, what helped was remembering the lives of the people he’d photographed. He felt inspired by their stories and drew strength from them.
4) And that leads to…
What happens with resilience that might not have occurred without it? I value stories of resilience because they remind me that just because a story begins with ghastly things happening doesn’t mean things will always end badly. Stories of resilience tend to have turning points where something shifts, new possibilities are opened and unexpected opportunities found. Giles had wanted to use his photography to make a difference in the world, to tell the stories of others so that we might learn from them.
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