RESILIENCE-BASED MENTORING
Building Resilience One Two-Minute Conversation at a Time
Resilience-Based Mentoring
A Tool for Mentors
Teach resilience to kids in short, engaging, easy conversations.
No training or preparation necessary.
Everything you need to start a resilience-building conversation comes in a "Skill of the Week" email. All you have to do is read it to your child, ask them one of the provided questions, listen to their answer, and share your own thoughts.
Build resilience—in your mentee and in yourself—and strengthen your relationship!
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Why Resilience?
Resilience is the ability to successfully adapt to hardship, trauma and significant sources of stress.
Everyone experiences disappointments, setbacks, failures, losses and challenges. Resilience allows you not simply to bounce back but to actually use hardship to grow into a stronger, happier version of yourself.
A resilient mindset unlocks a child's potential.
How it works ...
Everything you need in the palm of your hand
- Each week an email with everything you need to start a resilience-building conversation about the "Skill of the Week" is delivered to your inbox.
- All you have to do is pull it up when you are ready to have a short conversation and READ it aloud.
- No training or preparation is necessary. Really.
- Each email contains a brief description of the resilience skill of the week and also provides a few questions you can ask to start a conversation.
- Taken one at a time, the concepts are easy to understand and discuss. Together, they form a comprehensive set of skills that create a resilient mindset.
An Evidence-Based Curriculum
Resilient Conversations is based on a resilience-training curriculum that has been validated in 4 studies with researchers from The Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-reviewed journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in key resilience and wellness outcomes.
Versions of the curriculum have been used by Navy SEALs, first responders, people with hospitals, caregivers, schools, corporations, and non-profits that support at-risk youth.
We break resilience training down into bite-sized pieces anyone can learn in short, engaging conversations that require no training or preparation.
About Kristin MacDermott, Creator of Resilience-Based Mentoring
Hi, I'm Kristin MacDermott. I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and creator of the MacDermott Method. Our mission is to bring resilience-training to every child in America. We do this by creating resilience-training content for parents, schools, youth-focused non-profits, and mentors.
My resilience-training programs have been validated in four studies (including two randomized-controlled trials) with researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-review journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in key mental health and resilience measures, including distress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-efficacy.
Over the past two decades, I have developed resilience-training programs for some of the highest performing people on the planet, including Navy SEALS, the Los Angeles Police Department, and healthcare providers at 20 hospitals across the country, including the National Institutes of Health. I have created programs for cancer patients, divorcing families, parents, athletes, students and for at-risk youth and the mentors who support them.
My passion is helping children. All of us will face obstacles. There's no preventing it. But when we teach children resilience skills, we open the doors for them to move past these obstacles quickly and access their best-feeling lives. We give them the tools to choose good-feeling relationships, to pursue their dreams, and to grow into self-confident, compassionate, solution-focused adults.
Want to bring Resilience-Based Mentoring to your organization?
Our mission is to get resilience to as many children and families as possible.
These emails help mentors have meaningful conversations with their mentees. They help you support your child in becoming more resilient, they make you more resilient yourself, and they improve your relationships (with your mentees, with your own children, and with anyone) at the same time.
Even if you only have two minutes, you can build resilience!
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