Resilience and self-confidence

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Introduction

Welcome to the Resilience and Self-Confidence module! Here, we explore key aspects of personal development—Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem, and Resilience. Self-Confidence is the foundation of believing in your capabilities and facing challenges head-on. Self-Esteem shapes your self-opinion and worth, influencing how you engage with the world. Resilience is our ability to bounce back from adversity, learn from setbacks, and thrive in everyday life. In this module, we focus on resilience and self-confidence as educational tools for individuals impacted by social exclusion. Join us in discovering how these qualities empower individuals to navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and foster personal growth.

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Resilience & self confidence Resources and tools for social inclusion

Self-Confidence is trust in oneself and having the belief that you are capable and can achieve success and competence. A self-confident person is ready to rise to new challenges, seize opportunities, deal with difficult situations, and take responsibility if or when things go wrong.  Self-Esteem is your opinion of yourself and your worth.

Resilience (or resiliency) is our ability to adapt and bounce back when faced with adversity and things don’t go as planned, so that we flourish in everyday life and cope when things get tough.  It doesn’t mean being happy all the time because real life isn’t like that. In our daily lives we all face set-backs, hardships, trauma, tragedy, health problems and sources of stress such as school and workplace conflicts or relationship problem. Our resilience is what allows us to deal with the difficult situation and learn from it, bounce forward and thrive, feeling stronger and more capable to cope than ever before, and it is one of the key ingredients for success. It also means that when an opportunity arises, we seize it and make the most of it.

In this case, resilience and self- confidence are defined as educational  tools addressed to people affected by social exclusion condition.

Outcomes
Outcomes

Learning outcomes, table:

  • What are Resilience and self-confidence competencies
  • Resources and tools to boost soft skills
  • Social inclusion strategies
  • Self-awareness and selfmonitoring. Adaptive, coping and management. 
  • How to promote resilience and self-confidence
  • Relationship and social skills. Critical and creative thinking skills
  • Promote skills and competencies to reflect and identify one’s own resources to be mobilized to face adversity; 
  • identify their reference persons and the places that can support them in difficulties and challenging times; 
  • Promote the  concept of empowerment (feeling of power over the environment)

Content in curriculum

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10903-021-01247-y

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/edri/2022/4854332/

7 Ways to Foster Self-Esteem and Resilience in All Learners

https://www.edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/how-good-teachers-build-resilience-and-confidence-in-students/

How Good Teachers Build Resilience And Confidence In Students 

https://www.wcwcw.org/blog/8-essential-skills-for-building-resilience

Final Task

Task table

Strategies: Plan your coping strategies

I can identify strategies that provide support in challenging times. 

I can identify areas of support and where to get help

Purpose of the Activity:

 learning skills and strategies which will support target group in challenging times, particularly in relation to change and loss.

Time Required:

30 minutes

Materials Required:

PC, Scenarios photocopied and cut into individual cards. Flip Chart, pens

Steps to Complete the Task:

I can identify strategies that provide support in challenging times.

Step 1
Group activity
Divide the young people into small groups and give each group two scenarios. Explain that in their groups they will read the scenario, discuss the situation and answer the questions by writing on the flip chart. The questions are as follows: How do they think the young person would be feeling? Where could they get help or advice? Is there anything the young person could do to help the situation?
Step 2
Group Activity
Alternatively to make the session more interactive you could encourage groups to role play their scenarios and act them out to their peers asking the audience to answer the above questions.
Step 3
Group activity
Bring all the groups back together and ask them to share their scenarios and what answers they have come up with to the questions.
Step 4
Individual activity
Now ask the young people to think about their own personal lives and to think of examples of strategies they use or have used in challenging times. Likewise get them to think about the help and support they can access to see them through challenging situations. Encourage the young people to write them down and keep these.
Step 5
Group activity
Encourage the young people to share their examples of strategies and support. These can be written on flip chart paper and displayed.
Step 6
Evaluation
Use evaluation sheet provided at the back of the pack.
Step 7
Key session message
The importance of identifying strategies/coping mechanisms that can support us in challenging times to help maintain emotional balance.
Step 8
Alternative
Blether cards – within a drop in or small group setting the scenarios can be used as a tool for group discussion. Ask young people to pick a scenario read it out and discuss the above questions with the group.
Quiz
Further Resources

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. Project Number: 2021-1-NO01-KA220-ADU-000029476

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