The Onward Workbook - Elena Aguilar

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ELENA AGUILAR is the founder and president of Bright Morning Consulting, an educational consulting group that works around the world supporting educators to meet the needs of children. She is the author of The Art of Coaching and The Art of Coaching Teams and has also been a longtime contributor to Edutopia and EdWeek....

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Preface xvii

Introduction 1

Put On Your Hiking Boots 1

Hopes and Goals 2

Current Challenges 3

What's in Your Toolbox? 4

Create a Treasure Chest, or Just a Pocket 5

1 Know Yourself 7

Know Yourself: Resilience Self-Assessment 8

How Well Do I Know Myself? 10

The Wise Words of Martha Graham 13

Whom Do You Know Who Knows Who They Are? 14

I Am 15

Purpose: Why I'm Doing This 16

Myers-Briggs Personality Types: Part 1 17

Myers-Briggs Personality Types: Part 2 21

Pablo Neruda and Purpose 23

What Motivates Me When I Speak? 24

Core Values 25

Purpose: My Legacy 28

Crafting a Mission Statement 30

I Am a Leopard, or a 33

Aptitudes and Interests 34

Aptitudes: An Inquiry Experience 40

Spiritual and Mental Ancestors 45

The Paths We've Taken 46

Values: At School 48

Sociopolitical Identities 50

Signature Strengths 52

Make a Values Jar 53

Astrology, Enneagrams, and More! 54

Behavioral Change: In the Past 55

Who Am I? Who Do I Want to Be? 57

Behavioral Change: Reflections on Past Experiences 59

Behavioral Change: Identifying Grain Size 62

Making Plans for Behavioral Change 64

Aligning Values to Actions 67

A Letter to Vulnerability 69

Artistic Depictions of Vulnerability 70

Destination Postcard: Self-Knowledge 71

Chapter Reflection 72

2 Understand Emotions 75

Understand Emotions: Resilience Self-Assessment 76

KWL: Emotions 78

Beliefs About Feelings 79

Examining Coping Mechanisms 81

Movie Time! 82

The Cultural Construction of Emotions 84

The Core Emotions 86

Naming Emotions 88

Exploring the Intensity of Emotions 89

Anger: Meditations and Reflections 92

Get to Know an Emotion Cycle 94

A Day of Observing Your Emotions 97

Relaxing Your Body: The Body Scan 98

Where Emotions Live in Your Body 99

Muscle Relaxation 100

Nonverbal Communication: The Interviews 101

The Biography of My Emotions 102

Reflecting on Regrets 103

Invite Your Emotions to Tea 104

Lessons About Strong Emotions 105

Thanking Your Emotions 107

Thanks, but No Thanks 109

Exploring Moments of Emotional Intensity 112

How to Breathe 114

RAIN: Dealing with Uncomfortable Emotions 116

Noticing Physical Cues 118

Assessing Your Stress 119

Quick Calm: Grounding 120

Recognizing Cognitive Distortions 121

A Letter to Anger 124

Artistic Depictions of Anger 125

Destination Postcard: Understand Emotions 126

Chapter Reflection 127

3 Tell Empowering Stories 129

Tell Empowering Stories: Resilience Self-Assessment 130

Three Good Things 132

Intention Setting 136

Start a New Habit 140

Reflect on Thoughts 141

What Einstein Says About Stories 149

Exploring the Impact of Cognitive Distortions 150

Catch That Distorted Thought 154

Visually Depicting a Life Story 156

Affirmations 158

Authoring Your Life 159

Take Apart That Thought 160

Try This Thought 164

Optimism: Choices 165

Challenge That Thought 166

Interrupting Distorted Thoughts 172

Problematic Core Beliefs 174

Rilke on Love 178

Challenge That Core Belief 179

The Optimism of Uncertainty 181

River and Rut Stories 182

The Life-Defining Moments 184

Want To and Get To 187

The Untold Story 188

Memory, Mood, and Story-Crafting 189

The Danger of a Si...

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PRACTICAL EXERCISES AND ACTIVITIES FOR BECOMING A RESILIENT EDUCATOR

This hands-on workbook is the companion to Elena Aguilar's extraordinary book Onward. It explores in-depth the 12 habits that are essential for building and developing resilience in educators. The Onward Workbook is the must-have resource for cultivating resilience, filled with over 365 exercises that draw on the author's extensive research in emotional resilience, psychology, systems thinking, change management, and on her 12 years of coaching educators.

The Onward Workbook is your personal resource for cultivating resilience and becoming the educator of your dreams. The workbook has a variety of empowering stories and activities that introduce each of the 12 habits as well as activities that offer a guide to reflect on the habits explored. The exercises offer a better understanding of Onward's four-part conceptual framework that rests on the key components of resilience and how it is developed.

The exercises described are tried and tested and have proven to boost educator abilities to build community, become more mindful, take better care of themselves, focus on the positive, cultivate compassion, become ongoing learners, develop creativity, accept change, celebrate gratitude, and much more....