Effective Coping Strategies and Thriving Techniques
Enhance your coping skills and learn how to thrive with a collection of practical strategies. Explore common stress sources and create action plans for different scenarios. Engage in healing metaphors and self-reflection activities to overcome life's challenges and uncertainties.
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Surviving and Thriving To Survive: ability to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances but it costs you. To Thrive: knowing about and intentionally using the skills, strategies, and routines that enable you to live a happier, more fulfilling, and meaningful life.
Three common sources of stress 1.Uncertainty 2.Lack of control 3.Conflict
How can coping skills make a difference?
Just for a few minutes, as you write, please Don t plan or criticize your writing Don t worry about grammar or form Don t reread or correct Don t stop until the time is up
1. Coping Strategies Take a few minutes to list activities that help you cope in the table below (during the day/night, when alone/ with others). After you re done, free- write about what you have noticed until you hear the bell. DAY NIGHT ALONE 1. 2. 1. 2. WITH OTHERS 1. 2. 1. 2. 5 min
2. A Healing Metaphor Think of a challenging time in your life. Think back to the ways you overcame it. Find a metaphor to describe how you heal. What happens naturally? What stages do you go through? Compare yourself to an animal, a season, a natural phenomenon, or anything else and draw on the symbols that come to mind. What strengths have you discovered in the process? 8 min
3. Creating an Action Plan Based on the Most Likely Scenario...
Fill in this chart after instructions below Worst Case Scenario % Most Likely Scenario % Best Case Scenario %
3. Consider All Scenarios Worst Case Scenario Paint a very dark picture about the worst possible outcome. Describe it in detail, exaggerate and elaborate! Then, assign a percentage point for how likely this is going to be the outcome. Best Case Scenario Paint a very optimistic picture about the best possible outcome. Describe it in detail, exaggerate and elaborate! Then, assign a percentage point for how likely this is going to be the outcome. (cont d)
3. What is the Most Likely Scenario? Most Likely Case Scenario Paint a very dark picture about the worst possible outcome. Describe it in detail, exaggerate and elaborate! Then, assign a percentage point for how likely this is going to be the outcome.
Completed Chart Worst Case Scenario % Most Likely Scenario % Best Case Scenario %
Given the most likely case scenario, create an action plan.
