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Cultivating Resilience, Well-Being and Authentic Happiness in Youth
Cultivating Resilience, Well-Being and Authentic Happiness in Youth
Curriculum
5 Sections
39 Lessons
5 Weeks
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Section 1: What is Resilience?
9
2.1
Prepare – Joshua 1:9
2.2
Defining Resilience, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
2 Minutes
2.3
Core Purpose, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
2 Minutes
2.4
Spiritual Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
2 Minutes
2.5
Resilience and Holy Breath, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
2.6
Why Resilience Today?, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
2.7
How to Quantify Happiness, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
2.8
Questions for Reflection
2.9
Additional Resources
Section 2: Resilience, Well-Being and Mental Health
9
3.1
Prepare – Isaiah 41:10
3.2
Why Happiness is Relevant, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
3.3
Youth with Lower Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
8 Minutes
3.4
Mind, Body, Spirit Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
7 Minutes
3.5
How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
5 Minutes
3.6
Resilience of Youth, David Caruso – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
3.7
Resilience, or Anti-Fragility?, Szu-Hui Lee – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
3.8
Questions for Reflection
3.9
Additional Resources
Section 3: Increasing Resilience and its Ensuing Joy and Authentic Happiness
7
4.1
Prepare – Romans 5:1-5
4.2
Increasing Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
10 Minutes
4.3
Happiness in Hard Circumstances and the RAIN Technique, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
4.4
Resilience and Joy, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
4.5
Tips for Youth Ministers, Rodger Nishioka – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
4.6
Questions for Reflection
4.7
Additional Resources
Section 4: Resilience and Well-Being in Community
8
5.1
Prepare – 2 Corinthians 4:17-18
5.2
Community and Core Purpose, Dominique Robinson – Video and Discussion Outline
2 Minutes
5.3
Connectivity, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
5.4
Positivity in Community, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
5.5
Supporting Resilience and Joy, Dominique Robinson – Video and Discussion Outline
2 Minutes
5.6
The Communal Aspect of Resilience, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
3 Minutes
5.7
Questions for Reflection
5.8
Additional Resources
Section 5: Resilience and the Happiness That Comes from Engagement in the World
6
6.1
Prepare – Isaiah 61:1-7
6.2
Anger and Happiness, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
4 Minutes
6.3
Political Resistance and Spiritual Resistance, Jannah Scott and Sanghoon Yoo – Video and Discussion Outline
9 Minutes
6.4
Social Connection and Being Other-Oriented, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
6 Minutes
6.5
Questions for Reflection
6.6
Additional Resources
How to Build Happiness into Youth Programming, Laurie Santos – Video and Discussion Outline
Questions for Discussion:
How do we build in time to breathe and rest into our youth group programming?
How might time affluence influence our youths’ well-being, and the well-being of our youth group?
What does a theology of abundance have to say about time affluence? And how do all of these things influence our mental health?
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