Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

This is a GREAT class! Why? It's clear after taking this class that resilience is a skill and it can be learned. I'm so happy I came across this resilience class. These are the skills I wish everyone could have the opportunity to learn. I feel like I'm on the road to practicing ESSENTIAL mind skills for not only coping with the bad times but fully feeling the good. I can easily see something like this being put into middle school, high school, college, and workplace curriculum.

The class is organized well and has solid examples of the most common"thinking traps" (thoughts that get in the way of being resilient). Most importantly, it has solid examples of what you CAN DO to shift away from those unhelpful thoughts, right now. It's modeled in the videos. It's actionable stuff.

But it's not just about how you can shift "nego" thinking. It's also about active positive thinking, gratitude, and how to build on positive emotions and why you should care. Broadening your positive emotion spectrum really made sense. Again, why this class was so powerful was seeing how some of the people featured are cultivating positivity. That's what I want most as a student of life - examples and role modeling. This class has it and makes the strategies and suggestions more actionable. Seeing positive images in someone's home and modeled behavior helped me pay attention and commit to the strategies provided.

I thank Karen Reivich and team for her amazing work on this MOOC. I give her a "Yeah! baby!" instead of a boring "Good Job". I hope she and her team count it in their 3 positives for the week gratitude reflection.

Thank you for including all the quick, to-the-point VERBAL summaries of science and study findings without giving us horrible graphs or "barf" data to numb out on. Karen did a great job describing a study and summing up the findings to support the topic in a few sentences. Presentations with graphs, and pie charts, and the like, really REALLY suck. Who cares? Everybody, please follow Karen's lead! Just summarize quick and get to the point.

If I were to change anything about this MOOC, it would be this very minor thing: I would have appreciated seeing even more images. My brain craves varied images. I loved seeing what images help people in their homes. It was inspiring. So if you can collect more and fold them into this MOOC, wow, that would be super amazing. It would be great to see some YouTube links to images like that in the Resources section/Readings for this class.