OT-Bounce

This webinar explores the natural purpose of anxiety and how it can become ‘disordered’ and the main principles to guide responding and supporting individuals struggling with anxiety. Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute

Drew Bird, an instructor at UAlberta Executive Education and author of The Leader’s Guide to Emotional Intelligence, and an EQ Master Trainer, explores the often experienced, but much less talked about, a dark side of leadership, and looks at practical steps to live with ineffective leadership when you experience it.

Resilience Training: How to Build Resilient Individuals and Groups   Resources for adults, children and adolescents from the Positive Psychology Program.  They offer a mix of resources for sale as well as free downloads and other information. 

This websites explores the realtionship between resiliencey and grit.  Resilient people have "grit" (perserverance and passion for long-term goals).  Resilience is the optimism to continue when you’ve experienced some failures and times are  tough.  Grit is the motivational drive that keeps you on a difficult task over a sustained period of time.

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this website offers a range of resource, links to worksheets, educatinoal videos and evidence-based articles about identifying opportunities and strategies to built personal and organizational Grit.

Do you have Grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals)? This standardized assessment gives you a score and comparison to others in the pool as well as a link to a wide range of resources and activities for building Grit.   You can download versions of the scale for use in your own work, and there are links to the evidence-base for this work.  

Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1087-1101

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Angela Duckworth has a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor in the psychology department. Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople, all of whom she studies to determine how "grit" is a better indicator of success than factors such as IQ or family income.

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this TedTalk has been viewed by over 13 million people and links to a range of related resources. 

Donna Costa, DHS, OTR/L, FAOTA Presented at the AOTA Student Conclave November 19, 2016

The Talk2MorePeople Project is an initiative to encourage people to explore opportunities through conversation.

Recognizing that technology has become too invasive, this project started to illustrate the benefits of such conversations.

Talk2More People creator Tony Esteves, met at least 1 new stranger a day for a full year using himself as an example to document the importance and benefits of creating these face-to-face conversations.

Tony Esteves (I on the Ball ) facilitated the OTs Bounce launch workshop Sept 2018.  For those of you who missed it, or want a refresher, here is his video on juggling 3 balls :)

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