Grit & Resilience
Positive wellbeing & resilience — a crash course on using grit and your character strengths. Students are encouraged to find out who they are, their gifts, talents and personality, then go a little deeper by writing down their goals and practical ways to live with direction and purpose.
What students walk away with
Discover your character strengths and how they show up under pressure.
The science of long-term effort — and how to build it as a teenager.
A simple framework students actually write down and stick to.
Living with direction, not just reacting to what the day throws at you.
The presentation
Resilience & Grit
While Mental Health focuses on the importance of getting your mental state out of negative space, Grit focuses on how to then propel your mental state into a more enriching space for a more fulfilling and productive life. This presentation highlights ways on how to build mental fortitude and the ability to cast a vision of the future that you can't help but move towards. Jonny shares his personal experience of living in a caravan while failing his studies due to his learning disabilities, to passing and going on to start a billion-dollar company through a method his school counsellor imparted into him all those years ago; The PERMA Model.
"We move towards what we focus on"
Having a clear vision is the starting point for great and positive changes in anyone's life. This presentation encourages the listeners to have goals in every area of life and move towards them with passion and perseverance.
Grit
- The Fundamentals of Resilience & how to practice them
- Learnt Optimism
- Disempowering vs Empowering thoughts
- Growth vs Fixed Mindset
P — Positive Emotions
Learning to accept yourself (strengths and weaknesses) and allowing yourself to practice gratitude with practical ways to increase optimism.
E — Engagement
Identifying & focusing on your strengths. Learning to work in flow to feel a sense of mastery.
R — Relationships
Learning the importance of and how to connect on an authentic level to others — our family, school and community — and how to make friends.
M — Meaning
Identifying how to link everyday tasks to a greater purpose and overall goal. A sense of giving back and being an authentic you.
A — Accomplishment
Identifying and understanding the benefit of setting time aside to find a worthy goal, including how to use S.M.A.R.T goals and reward micro accomplishments to bring you forward in all areas of life.
Learning Outcomes
- The audience will be able to identify the most common self-imposed limitations & beliefs, along with making the link between positive outlooks, actions and success.
- The audience will understand the science behind fulfilment and happiness along with understanding and reciting each component of the PERMA model.
- Learn how to create goals and a vision for your life, including the importance of human connection & communication.
- Identifying and understanding individual strengths and weaknesses, their place within a team and how to move forward with resilience and determination.
Curriculum alignment
This presentation is tailored to the audience depending on age & outcomes and follows the Australian curriculum according to Educational Analysis and Consulting.
- • Health and Wellbeing (ACPPS051) — Examine how identities are influenced by people and places.
- • Emotional Management (ACPPS054) — Recognise how media and important people in the community influence personal attitudes, beliefs, decisions and behaviours.
- • Help-Seeking and Resilience (ACPPS053) — Investigate resources and strategies to manage changes and transitions associated with growing up.
- • Community Contribution (ACPPS056) — Participate in physical activities designed to enhance health, wellbeing and social connection.
- • Identity and Wellbeing (ACPPS074) — Investigate strategies to manage changes and transitions and their impact on identities.
- • Emotions and Empathy (ACPPS075) — Analyse factors that influence emotions, and develop strategies to demonstrate empathy and sensitivity.
- • Help-Seeking Strategies (ACPPS076) — Practise and apply strategies to seek help for themselves or others.
- • Community Engagement (ACPPS077) — Plan and implement strategies for connecting to community and contributing to healthy and active communities.
- • Critical Health Literacy (ACPPS078) — Investigate and select strategies to promote health, safety and wellbeing.
- • Identity and Influence (ACPPS089) — Evaluate factors that shape identities, and critically analyse how individuals impact the identities of others.
- • Personal and Social Changes (ACPPS090) — Propose, practise and evaluate strategies to manage personal, physical and social changes.
- • Managing Health and Safety Risks (ACPPS091) — Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where health, safety and wellbeing may be at risk.
- • Building Healthy Communities (ACPPS092) — Plan and evaluate new and creative interventions that promote connectivity and healthy communities.
- • Critical Thinking for Wellbeing (ACPPS093) — Critically analyse and apply health information from diverse sources to propose and justify responses to health situations.
What educators say
The two speakers who personally resonated with me the most were Billy Graham and Jonny Shannon.
Very lucky to have Jonny come in and do 3 student sessions followed by a parent night. The kids were in stitches but learning as well — we recommend Jonny anywhere!
The hour-long presentation was both informative and, at the same time, entertaining.
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