Thursday, August 11, 2016

The Hurricane

As I have done in previous blogs, I’m going to present a challenge from the card game “Bounce Back.” Your job is to list the skills and the attitudes of resilience that you would use in dealing with the challenge. Describe how you would respond to the challenge using these skills. Here’s one that relates to the weather: very, very bad weather.
A hurricane is moving up the coast and is approaching the community you’ve lived in most of your life. Your home may be damaged severely or destroyed. What would you do in the time, one or two days, before the storm strikes? Describe the skills and the attitudes of resilience that you would use in preparing for the storm’s arrival. Take some time and think about this and what skills and attitudes you might apply to this situation. 
Here are some of the suggestions we have about ways that you might deal with this challenge. Again, these are only suggestions. Every situation is different, as is every person. 
First of all, we would encourage you to deal with the strong feelings that  we would assume you might have. You need to calm down and to think clearly about what you’re going to do. That means managing all of these feelings. Talking with others may help you to calm down. It may also help you to connect with others and understand how they are approaching the situation and what they are doing to prepare. Connecting with others is an important skill to apply in any crisis situation.
Your connection with others will also help you to make realistic plans and to take action to carry them out.
Being flexible will also help you to deal with the situation. Being rigid, either in your thinking or your actions, generally does not help one to deal with a crisis situation. You may have to try in a different way to deal with the problem. The storm may be different from others that you have weathered. Be open to new information. Don’t get stuck. It could cost you your life.
We have found that using this game and its challenges encourages people to really think about what they would do in a specific situation and requires them to actually demonstrate how they would apply the skills and the attitudes of resilience to the challenge. Put yourself in this situation and think through what you would actually do.
We would encourage you to talk about this challenge with others. Asking them what they would do. If you value their opinion and their direction, asking them can be a very important part of developing a plan of action and approaching the situation in a flexible and adaptive fashion.

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