1. Be the Leslie Knope of Whatever You Do:
Resilience and Gratitude for Self-Advocacy in
the Workplace
Ashley Rizzotto
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
4. KNOPE Method of Resilence
Kindness to Yourself & Others
Norms & Challenging the Process
Owning Your Support System
Power (Knowing Where you Have it)
Ethical Commitments & Beliefs
5. Be Kind: To Yourself & Others!
• Managing Your Emotions
• Breeding Positivity
• Making a Mantra
6. Norms & Challenging the Process
• Be an Agent of Change: Inch by Inch
• Situate Yourself in Your Campus Culture
7. Owning Your Support System
• Understanding Your “Why”
(Simon Selik- TED Talk)
• Start an Appreciation Folder
9. Beliefs and Ethical Commitment
Value Congruence
• Non-Negotiables
• Pick Your Hills
• VIA Character Assessment
10. Core Strategies of Resilience
• The capacity to make realistic plans and take steps to carry them out
• A positive view of yourself and confidence in your strengths and
abilities
• Skills in communication and problem solving
• The capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses.
11. Know When You Are
Over-Knopeing It
When you are:
Self-Advocacy and Self-Care
14. Action-Oriented Hope
• Past: Share a time that made you feel hopeful about pursing your
current profession
• Present: Share experiences at work that continually energize you
• Future: Share the elements of a work environment and role that would
be important for you to continually feel hopeful in your future
15. When in doubt, KNOPE it out!
Contact Info:
A_Rizzot@uncg.edu
Linkedin.com/in/Ashley-Rizzotto
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Notes de l'éditeur
Intros- myself and Leslie!
Striving to Thriving- a program to help students understand how much power they have in managing their emotions as a preventative wellness technique
The happiest pessimist you’ll ever meet and a lot of what I do is rooted in social ecology theory. Today, the focus is on all of you as professionals. Take this stuff back to your colleagues and campuses
This presentation is rooted in a cross analysis in the american Psych association and the american college health association’s understanding of resilience
My grandma always told me that people who talk to themselves have money in the bank. From my anecdotal experience in higher education, I can share that is not true. But what it can do is help you reframe your thoughts, especially if you find negativity often seeping through.
Garbage-Woman leslie- pushing the boundaries outside of her job to create access for others.
Inches- helps
You ever feel really good after doing something at work?
Write it down
Start
Positive mindset- problem solving & comm.
Folks, this is a competency valued by our profession
Like the Air plane announcements, always fasten your oxygen mask first before assisting others in need. )
Be active in caring for yourself
Craft a plan-
Self-Care IS Preventative and Reactive. It’s balance to start and healthy coping when things start to spiral
Let’s talk about balance- when we say work/life, does that mean we are only living for 2 days every week?
Similar to the mantra shet- hold yourself accountable, pull out your appreciation folder, bookmark things that make you laugh and give yourself time for it.
Action-oriented hope is a theory that exists in the Career Dev. world- instances of counseling revolve around finding different ways to validate and instill hope. This is what we do when you use a powerful mantra.
Today, the focus is on all of you as professionals. Take this stuff back to your colleagues and campuses- find ways to engage in learned optimism and the various strategies. You don’t need all of these to begin feeling more confident and competent.