MY WELLBEING JOURNEY – YEAR 8 DEVELOPING MY BEST SELF as
a Young Person and as a Student
Every day you have choices on how you will think, speak and act, and these choices shape your life. Choosing to develop your best self is a great first choice. A healthy state of wellbeing is feeling positive and hopeful about today and for your future, because you know that you are working towards developing your best self.
NAME
CLASS
AS A YOUNG PERSON
What do I expect from myself and what type of young person do I want to develop into?
» use grit to challenge myself to deliberately practise » develop growth mindsets to stretch my brain’s abilities
Acknowledgement: Sonja Lyubomirsky & Tal Ben Shahar
CHARACTER STRENGTHS WEEKS
There are six Character Strengths Weeks spread throughout this journey. They provide you and your class with opportunities to practise using your strengths to build a resilient state of wellbeing. They are also fun to do at home with your family. The order of these weeks are: Gratitude, Kindness, Bravery, Honesty, Creativity and Teamwork
From the website www.learningcurve.com.au download the Strengths Weeks sheets from Individual Resources/Character Strengths Weeks and the Wellbeing Awards Certificates from Individual Resources/Wellbeing Awards.
“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault
INDEX OF RESILIENT WELLBEING LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES – YEAR 8
Accomplishment
Positive Emotion + gratitude
ABOUT THIS WELLBEING JOURNEY
This Lesson: WHY: for you to learn what lessons and activities are in this journal and on the website, and how to use them to work towards you developing your best self. HOW: developing your wellbeing and resilience is an ongoing journey. Focus on building your resilience and wellbeing by exploring the weekly lessons and activities which will show you new ways to think about learning, living and thinking..
1. Getting started: there are six Essential Lessons that you need to do first. They are: pages 4, 5 & 6 – PERMAH+: Describing Your Wellbeing; page 7 – Trusted Champions; pages 8 & 9 – Your Resilience Skills; page 10 – Character Strengths; page 11 – Strengths Wheel; and page 13 – Term One Learning Goals
2. Start every day thinking about what you are looking forward to, which will create positive thoughts and feelings in you, to grow your wellbeing and resilience.
3. Enjoy doing the weekly PERMAH+ wellbeing lesson and the eleven resilient wellbeing activities, two of which are rotated each week. Doing the weekly Big Five Health Check In will help you be more aware of your wellbeing. There are also interactive activities available on the website www.learningcurve.com.au
4. Each weekly PERMAH+ lesson is broken up into: WHY? – the learning intention for what you will learn to develop certain areas of your wellbeing. HOW? – the actions that you can take to build these areas into yourself. DO? – questions to enable you to apply what you have learned to your everyday life.
5. The Big Five Health Focuses are what you need to do and be aware of to stay healthy. There are opportunities to monitor each of these. At the end of each week summarise how well you went by colouring in how you rated your efforts.
Acknowledgement: P – Lyubomirsky, King & Diener, E – Hunter & Csikszentmihalyi, R – Norrish, Robinson & Williams, M – Cotton, Bronk & Damon, A – Hendren & Sheldon, H – Norrish, Robinson & Williams
“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make, makes you.” John C Maxwell
TERM ONE LEARNING GOALS
This Lesson: WHY: for you to set three goals this term, one for improving your learning and thinking skills in class, one for building your respectful relationships, and one for what you want to achieve for yourself. HOW: for each of your goals, think about what you need to learn, who can help you and what strengths will you use. Set goals that are just beyond your current best to stretch yourself, which will cause you to make mistakes, which you can fix by learning new things; this is where your abilities grow.
TERM ONE LEARNING GOALS
Goal One: about improving my learning and thinking skills in class.
I will Who can help me to learn what I need to learn?
PROGRESS TOWARDS LEARNING GOALS
Goal One: What did I learn about this goal that I am grateful for?
Circle where I am now on achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5 By the end of Term circle where I can reach: 1 2 3 4 5
Goal Two: about building my respectful relationships.
I will Who can help me to learn what I need to learn?
Circle where I am now on achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5 By the end of Term circle where I can reach: 1 2 3 4 5
Goal Three: about what I want to achieve for myself.
I will .......................................................................................
Who can help me to learn what I need to learn?
Goal Two: What did I learn about this goal that I am grateful for?
Goal Three: What did I learn about this goal that I am grateful for?
Circle where I am now on achieving this goal: 1 2 3 4 5
By the end of Term circle where I can reach: 1 2 3 4 5
SIGN OFF! ME:
DATE: / /
MY PARENT/GUARDIAN: DATE: / / MY HOME ROOM/FORM TEACHER: DATE: / /
Acknowledgement: Sheldon & Adams Miller
“Your odds of hitting your targets go up dramatically when you aim at them.” Mal Pancoast
ENGAGEMENT + MINDFULNESS
Your Plastic Brain
WHY: by understanding that your every thought and experience changes your brain, you will be able to choose to grow your brain’s abilities in areas that you wish to develop by practising. This is called neuroplasticity.
HOW: deliberately practise learning tasks to strengthen existing and create new brain pathways. This will enable you to do them easier and faster, which develops them as positive habits. Your plastic brain loves practise to create patterns to look for when problem solving.
Acknowledgement: Pascual-Leone & Dweck
DO: when is a time that you deliberately practised something and what happened?
When is a time that you didn’t practise a task and you noticed that you couldn’t do it as well?
What resilience skill can help you with Your Plastic Brain? (pages 8&9)
“Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn.” Carol Dweck
RESILIENT ME: I AM ENOUGH
FEELING OPTIMISTIC AND HOPEFUL ABOUT YOUR FUTURE: You focus on planning and writing down your goals every term. What are two other things that you could do to feel optimistic and hopeful?
MINDFULNESS MAZE
Enjoy the challenge of finding your way through the maze.
Acknowledgement: 7-8 Building Social-emotional Resilience, Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne
Past Positive:
what is an experience that fills you with positive feelings when you think about it?
WEEKLY HEALTH FOCUS
Colour the sections to reflect how well you went.
Exercise daily
BARELY LITTLE BIT ENOUGH MOSTLY HEAPS
Sleep well
BARELY LITTLE BIT OK MOSTLY HEAPS
Drink water
BARELY LITTLE BIT ENOUGH MOSTLY HEAPS
Eat healthy
BARELY LITTLE BIT HALF HALF MOSTLY HEAPS
Feel positive
BARELY LITTLE BIT OK MOSTLY HEAPS
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK?
MY GOAL THIS WEEK
What do I want to achieve this week?
MY GOAL NEXT WEEK
What do I want to achieve next week?
WORD SEARCH
HEALTH + STRENGTHS
Kind To You
WHY: by treating yourself with kindness, you will be calmer and have greater problem solving abilities to welcome tackling more difficult tasks.
HOW: the most important relationship that you have is the one with yourself. To grow it use your strengths to practise kind self-talk, use JOMO to have frequent breaks from social media, do each of the Big Five really well, give to add meaning to your life, smile, have fun and laugh and savour your proudest achievements often.
Acknowledgement: Niemiec, Neff & McGehee
DO: what is something that you love doing that you should do more often to be kind to yourself? .................................................................................................................................................................................
Who is someone that you enjoy being with who brings out the best in you?
What resilience skill can help you with Kind to You? (pages 8&9)
“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung
MINDFULNESS PUZZLE.
Enjoy the challenge of helping the taxi find its way to the house.
Future Positive:
what is something that you are really looking forward to?
WEEKLY HEALTH FOCUS
Colour the sections to reflect how well you went.
Exercise daily
BARELY LITTLE BIT ENOUGH MOSTLY HEAPS
Sleep well
BARELY LITTLE BIT OK MOSTLY HEAPS
Drink water
BARELY LITTLE BIT ENOUGH MOSTLY HEAPS
Eat healthy
BARELY LITTLE BIT HALF HALF MOSTLY HEAPS
Feel positive
BARELY LITTLE BIT OK MOSTLY HEAPS
WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEK?
MY GOAL THIS WEEK
What do I want to achieve this week?
MY GOAL NEXT WEEK
What do I want to achieve next week? ...............................................................................
Alfred Adler
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
This Lesson: WHY: for you to learn how to use each of the Multiple Intelligences to help you to learn and present what you learn in better ways. HOW: Multiple Intelligences are a set of eight intelligences which you have your own special mix of, just like your character strengths. Learning to use all eight will help you to learn and think in better ways. When learning in class or at home, stretch your abilities to present what you learn you using a number of the Multiple intelligences eg, thinking tools, role plays, drawing, debates, flowcharts and many more.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
INTELLIGENCE
Verbal/Linguistic
Visual/Spatial
Mathematical/Logical
Musical/Rhythmic
WHAT IS SOMETHING THAT I WILL TRY FOR EACH INTELLIGENCE?
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney
MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
Circle the words that you feel confident about and enjoy doing.
