Who do we need around us to reach our goals?

Understanding Myself

Who do we need around us to reach our goals?

Explore what it feels like to be supported and identify the importance of support in helping each other to achieve our goals.
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Life skills covered in this lesson:

Psychological Flexibility

Psychological Flexibility is the ability to recognize and adapt to fluctuating situational demands, modify feelings, perspectives and behaviour as required, and maintain a balance between competing desires, needs and life goals. It includes our ability to stay in touch with the present moment, being fully aware and accepting of our thoughts and feelings, including the undesired ones, and choosing our behaviour based on the situation and our personal values.

Psychological Flexibility is considered central to our daily well-being, adaptive functioning, and lasting psychological health.

Psychological Flexibility In Action

The person will be able to:

Adapt to changing circumstances.
Recognise and accept their thoughts and emotions, even the undesirable ones.
Make behavioural choices that are consistent with their personal values.
Maintain a balance between their various interests and desires.
Act on long-term values rather than short-term impulses.
Commit attention and energy to meaningful interests and values.
Regulate their attention and effort towards value-consistent goals, despite challenges.

Adaptability

Adaptability is the ability to modify our thoughts and behaviour to effectively respond to uncertainty, new information, changed circumstances or different people. It includes adjustments in our thinking, emotions and behaviour in response to change, to demonstrate enhanced outcomes. It is our ability to respond to change and a willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work activities and objectives.

As a skill, Adaptability is essential to our psychological health, social success, and academic and workplace achievement.

Adaptability In Action

The person will be able to:

Be open to accepting change.
Learn new methods and practices as the situation requires.
Look for ways to make changes work rather than only identifying why change will not work.
Think and act effectively under pressure.
Adjust timelines, results, and expectations appropriately when requirements change.
Shift strategy or approach in response to the demands of a situation.

Cognitive Flexibility

Cognitive Flexibility is the ability to appropriately adapt our thinking processes and behaviour to face new and unexpected conditions in the environment. This includes the ability to both address and interpret the new situation and restructure our thinking in order to adapt our behavioural strategies accordingly. It is also about knowing when it is appropriate to be broad and expansive in our thinking and when a situation requires detailed and focussed attention.

Greater Cognitive Flexibility is associated with favourable outcomes such as better reading abilities in childhood, higher resilience to negative life events and stress in adulthood, higher levels of creativity in adulthood, and better quality of life in older individuals. Flexible thinking is also considered essential for working with social diversity.

Cognitive Flexibility In Action

The person will be able to:

Change their views when they receive additional information.
Approach a problem from a new angle
Consider alternative points of view.
Handle several sources of information simultaneously.
Engage in multiple activities simultaneously.
Tolerate confusion and ambiguity.
Foresee a range of consequences.
Think up multiple problem-solving strategies.

Collaboration

Collaboration is the ability to work interdependently and cooperatively in teams. It is an organised and coordinated activity between two or more people to realise shared goals and outcomes. It includes the ability to manage team dynamics and challenges, and learning from and contributing to the learning of others.

Collaboration is a key skill that enables individuals to get along and work effectively with others, including people from diverse cultures.

Collaboration In Action

The person will be able to:

Work with others and co-create ideas.
Communicate effectively with groups.
Offer and accept help.
Lead, delegate and follow while working in a group.
Understand team members’ feelings and points of view.
Agree and disagree with others effectively.
Listen to others and debate respectfully.
Be helpful and supportive of their peers.
Accept and appreciate team members’ skills and abilities.
Prioritize group interests to achieve a common goal.
Accept and respect differences while working with diverse individuals.

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Understanding Myself

Who do we need around us to reach our goals?

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