CERD's Resilience Education Workshops and personalized trainings present an opportunity for educators, administrators, helping professionals, researchers, or others interested in fostering resilience in their communities to meet and experience the process of resilience education. Past workshops have been co-sponsored by the Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center at the University of California Berkeley, Graduate School of Education and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The workshops model experiences that participants can use as educational administrators, or in working with youth, families, or clients. They include these key components:
Understanding resilience as a strengths-based orientation. What does resilience mean in your community, school, or practice?
A "nuts and bolts" blending of process activities, so that resilience is promoted, and a healthy process for making life-affirming decisions can be acquired and utilized.
Resilience and competency-based evaluation.
If you are interested in shifting your educational, human service,
or business organization to a strengths-based focus, phone or email today to
connect with CERD's director and receive a free consultation (1.866.ASK-CERD:
jhb@cerd.org), See
how CERD can custom fit your needs with our extensive "hands-on"resilience
services.
Participants are asked to evaluate
their workshop experience. Here are some of their words:
Thank you for a very meaningful and productive workshop. I feel better "armed" with the understanding of resiliency to meet the challenges of making change in our district.
-Administrator
[This workshop] is the first one of its kind that I attend. If you ever present down in Orange County, I would like to send many of my staff.
-Drug Prevention/Treatment Specialist
Excellent! It's all starting to come together. The importance of resiliency and making change. I do think we can make big changes, starting from our own resilience. I loved the approach and experiential learning.
-Administrator
One of the best workshops I have ever attended. I was very moved, and because it was from within I feel it will be long-lasting.
-Administrator
Appreciated the flexibility of leaders, their responsiveness to needs and questions of group...
-Teacher
I was very pleased and am eager to continue learning more. Thanks!
-Drug Prevention/Treatment Specialist
I really appreciated the time taken to show the connection between activities, evaluation and research.
-Administrator
Thanks for giving me a language and a context to work from and I hope to work with you all again soon!
-Consultant, Resiliency/Equity
I understand more that I have to model what I think I "know" and believe. I appreciate that there was not a "preachy" approach to this workshop.
-Administrator
The presenters have provided specific resources to begin a study of the effects of resilience on academic and social achievement in my community, and will assist me in my involvement in the community groups that I belong to.
-Administrator
