As we begin a new year consider adding resiliency to your toolbox. Practice the following:
Critical mindedness helps protect against experiences of discrimination and facilitates a critique of existing social conditions.
Active engagement includes behavior in school, at home and with peers such that people proactively and positively impact their environment.
Flexibility promotes adaptation to cognitive, emotional, social and physical situational demands and can include bicultural competence or fluency across multiple cultural contexts.
Communalism includes the importance of social bonds and duties, reflects a fundamental sense of interdependence and primacy of collective well-being, and offers the drive for connection and promotion within and across diverse groups.
Resource: American Psychology Association
