Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox

Madhavi Nawana Parker is an Author, Public Speaker and Consultant in private practice, based in Australia. She has previously published with Routledge Educator Wellbeing: Practical Solutions to Reset, Recharge, and Recover (2020), What’s the Buzz for Early Learners (2015), What’s the Buzz for Primary Age Students (first edition, 2011; second edition 2020), What’s the Buzz for Teenagers (2020) with Mark Le Messurier, and The Confident Minds Curriculum (2020) and The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox (first edition, 2016). She is the Director of Positive Minds Australia www.positivemindsaustralia.com.au.

"An exceptionally valuable resource for anyone looking for hands-on ideas to promote their own and children’s social and emotional wellbeing."Dr Sue Roffey FRSA FBPsS, Honorary Associate Professor at Exeter, University College and Western Sydney Universities. Director at Growing Great Schools Worldwide. "A flexible social-emotional learning framework for building knowledge, skills, habits, routines and rituals that encourage lifelong resilience and wellbeing. An incredible resource for School Psychologists and other educators. The toolbox provides caring adults with a guide for teaching young people to build skills and competencies in life areas such as empathy, problem solving, managing emotions, learning through mistakes using a growth mindset, learning to persist, setting goals, developing and nurturing gratitude, hope and balance, becoming aware of personal values and maintaining authenticity, integrity and character. The Resilience and Wellbeing Toolbox is a treasure for anyone interested in implementing practices of positive education and social-emotional learning."Rebecca Comizio, Nationally Certified Psychologist & Licensed Professional Counsellor, New Canaan, CT, USA. "The ethereal concepts of confidence, resilience, empathy, flexibility, optimism, independence, respect, gratitude, mindfulness and more are taught through step-by-step lessons in this practical, inclusive manual to we as adults and to our young people."Lindy Petersen, Clinical Psychologist and author, ‘Stop, Think, Do’, social-emotional literacy program.

• 1. Being grateful, hopeful and keeping life in perspective. 2. Values, authenticity, character and integrity. 3. Empathy and a sense of belonging. 4. Problem solving. 5. Managing emotions. 6. Learning through mistakes, using a growth mindset. 7. Persistence, motivation and self-efficacy. 8. Goal setting.