Patterns of Social & Emotional Resilience
How do we build patterns of social and emotional resilience?
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Today's Flow
How do we build patterns of social and emotional resilience?
A grounding one-word check-in — name a feeling without fixing it.
Around the room — one word or one sentence each.
Resilience at the Human Scale
Container: psychological safety
Differences: emotional load
Exchanges: regulate, not escalate
Life Skills as Patterns
Small, repeatable practices
Self-regulate, connect, recover
Build patterns that absorb stress
In Your Groups
Choose one Life Skill card.
Design a short, repeatable routine (2–5 min) for a class or team.
Name the CDE it shifts.
Share practices — note which container, difference, or exchange each one shifts.
Next Wise Action & Homework
Toolkit: resilience and Adaptive Capacity framing; review the Life Skills cards.
Post the SEL practice you will trial and the pattern you hope it builds.
Begin AAE #3: choose a people-centered sticky issue; complete What?
Before leaving: each person names one next wise action.
Our Simple Rules
Adapted from the HSD-Camino Toolkit (Patterson & Holladay) and HSD Institute learning materials. © Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Used with permission. hsdinstitute.org