The American College Health Association says one in six college students have been diagnosed with, or treated for, anxiety within the past year – in fact, anxiety is now considered the number one mental health diagnosis among college students. How does resilience play into this – and how does it play out on today’s college campuses?

Many of today’s students can’t manage the pressures facing them – nor have they learned the skills to sooth themselves and carry on in the face of temporary setback and disappointment. Where is their grit?

Join us on November 29, 2017 and our expert presenter, Dr. Gregory Eells – the Director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Cornell University will review the concept of resilience and explore strategic ways that colleges and universities can incorporate resilience development into students’ living and learning environments, including a focus on exposure to resilient role models, developing learned optimism, the effective regulation of emotions and coping mechanisms, altruism, reflection and more.

As a result of this webinar, participants will take away:

• An understanding of resilience in the context of the higher education environment so you can implement specific strategies to most effectively develop necessary life-skill sets in your students.
• Foundational concepts on the adaptability and mechanism of the human stress response, how this response is mismatched with the environment of the modern world and why this causes such challenges for today’s students – meet them where they are at so you can teach them the skills they need for managing themselves properly.
• The various components of resilience and how they impact your students’ ability to respond effectively to stress – you’ll be able to communicate the importance of focusing human and fiscal efforts in this critical area to key constituents.
• A suggested framework of public health programs to facilitate resilience among students on your campus. 

The webinar is rooted in the concept of "Grit" as articulated by Angela Duckworth in her book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. This book will be offered as a Book Circle discussion group in the spring so please be on the lookout for registration for this when you return in January. You can see Duckworth describe the concept of Grit in her Ted talk.