How to build resilience?

How to build your own resilience?

by Mrs Annie Lim & RC Teacher Team

Look at yourself.

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​Observe yourself. See yourself from different angles.

​- What is your situation?

​- Are your behaviours different from usual?

​- Are your actions different from usual?

Listen to yourself.

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- What feelings do you have?

​- What values are important to you?

​- What would you like to start doing?

​- What experiences do you have?

- What do these experiences mean to you?

Link yourself to something

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- make your environment comfortable

​- be with people you feel comfortable with

​- try to work on something new/ get experience

​- get information of something that interests you

- do what you can do

​- try to accept the experience

Look, listen and link your

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​-feelings

​-own thinking

​-interest

​-how you handle stress

Psychological First Aid

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​-is a set of skills and knowledge that can be learnt and used to help people in distress

​-You can use it to help yourself - self-care

​-to help others, e.g., friends, family, community (in CCA, school) and country

You, a Red Cross Youth as a helper

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​-Resilience - you will be able to overcome whatever lies ahead of you.

​-With your resilience, you can help others in case of an emergency.

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Red Cross motto: To help and serve others

If you want to help someone, you need to be resilient first!