Resilience is the ability to overcome severe stress or difficulty and bounce back stronger than ever. This year has undoubtedly been fraught with unprecedented challenges and so our Wellness Parent Education series will engage experts in supporting families develop key skills to help Oakwood parents and students to thrive.
Resilience is not a personal attribute; rather, resilience is a dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation within the context of adversity. While we cannot control the larger environment, much of the resilience research points to the power of the parent-child relationship and the importance of bolstering the processes underlying resilience, such as self-regulation, autonomy, problem-solving, and empathy. This talk will focus on the ways relationships build resilience and what parents can do to promote some of the underlying processes most closely linked with how children thrive.
