Social-Emotional Learning: Self-Management

Nature never ceases to amaze me! We can learn so very much from our immediate environment, but also travelling has helped me to greatly appreciate the diversity of our home planet and how very resilient plants can be. They grow everywhere! Even on the cracked earth!

NCS2017 Iceland

Both Hawaii and Iceland are amazing places, and I have had the opportunity visit them both. Observing how quickly vegetation starts growing after lava has cooled is almost unbelievable. 

Humans are very resilient, too. Or, at least we CAN be, if we choose to. According to APA:

Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or 

challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and 

behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.

Managing our emotions and behaviors is an important SEL skill. What do you want to try this week?