Theologians, psychologists and youth leaders discuss the importance of cultivating resilience in youth.
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Section 1: What is Resilience?
- Prepare – Joshua 1:9
- Defining Resilience, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
- Core Purpose, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
- Spiritual Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Resilience and Holy Breath, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Why Resilience Today?, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- How to Quantify Happiness, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 2: Resilience, Well-Being and Mental Health
- Prepare – Isaiah 41:10
- Why Happiness is Relevant, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Youth with Lower Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Resilience of Youth, David Caruso – Video and Discussion Outline
- Resilience, or Anti-Fragility?, Szu-Hui Lee – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 3: Increasing Resilience and its Ensuing Joy and Authentic Happiness
- Prepare – Romans 5:1-5
- Increasing Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Happiness in Hard Circumstances and the RAIN Technique, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Resilience and Joy, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
- Tips for Youth Ministers, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 4: Resilience and Well-Being in Community
- Prepare – 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
- Community and Core Purpose, Dominique Robinson – Video and Discussion Outline
- Connectivity, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Positivity in Community, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Supporting Resilience and Joy, Dominique Robinson – Video and Discussion Outline
- The Communal Aspect of Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources
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Section 5: Resilience and the Happiness That Comes from Engagement in the World
- Prepare – Isaiah 61:1-7
- Anger and Happiness, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Political Resistance and Spiritual Resistance, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
- Social Connection and Being Other-Oriented, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
- Questions for Reflection
- Additional Resources