Resilience Revisted
Resilience Revisited — Because Resilience Isn't a One-Off Lesson Skills learned once are skills forgotten. Skills revisited become habits for life. Year 8 is a pivotal moment — new pressures, shifting friendships, growing independence. Resilience Revisited meets young people exactly where they are, reinforcing the tools they first learned in Year 7 through fresh, relevant scenarios that make the skills stick. A six-lesson programme that deepens and transfers resilience skills into the real situations adolescents face — from setbacks and conflict to optimism, empathy and assertive communication. Research shows resilience skills need reinforcing over time and across different contexts. By Year 8, pupils don't just revisit the tools — they own them. Part of the Bounce Forward Healthy Minds suite — a developmental, evidence-based programme built to grow with your students.
Lessons
6 lessons in this module.
Revisit the Skills of Resilience
Recap of the five resilience skills (Harnessing Emotions, Noticing Gremlins, Reframing, Moving On, WoBbLe) with a focus on when and how to apply them in real-life situations.
Optimistic Thinking
Explores pessimistic thinking patterns and how to replace them with flexible, realistic alternatives using the ABC model and Optimistic Alternatives Worksheet.
WoBbLe Review
Reinforces the WoBbLe skill (Worst/Best/Most Likely case) to tame Catastrophising Gremlin Beliefs. Covers when WoBbLe is appropriate and introduces emergency response skills (999, recovery position).
Assertive Communication
Introduces the four communication styles and a four-step Assertive Communication Technique. Students practise in pairs using real-life activating event scenarios.
Moving On Skill
Introduces Confirmation Bias and how brains filter information to confirm existing beliefs. Students practise selecting the right resilience skill for different everyday situations.
Empathy and Resilience Planning
Final lesson focusing on empathy vs sympathy, resilience mind-mapping, and consolidating all five resilience skills. Students create personal resilience plans.