Well-Being for Life & Learning Initiative
The Resilience Lab aims to support instructors in creating learning environments that promote student mental health and well-being through a new initiative called Well-Being for Life and Learning. The Foundations for Advancing Student Well-Being serve as the framework for a guidebook that’s underway. Our framework centers the core skills and mindsets of social and emotional learning, while also drawing on best practices modeled at other institutions of learning like Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin. The Foundations for Advancing Student Well-Being include teaching inclusively, nurturing connection, building resilience coping skills, and connecting to the environment.
Be REAL
The Resilience Lab is partnering with the Center for Child and Family Well-Being to offer Be REAL to students, staff, and instructors at the UW. Be REAL (REsilient Attitudes and Living) is a six-week program that promotes well-being. It equips participants with cognitive behavioral skills to manage emotions and cope with challenging situations, mindfulness skills to strengthen self-awareness, and practices that promote compassion for themselves and others. Each weekly Be REAL session is 90 minutes and includes group discussions, partner activities, and guided contemplative practices. Questions: Email meganken@uw.edu
Seed Grants
In partnership with the Campus Sustainability Fund, the UW Resilience Lab awards Seed Grants to support resilience- and compassion-building initiatives that foster connection and community. These small grants support impactful activities, programs, projects and/or research that align with the goals of UW Resilience and Compassion Initiatives. The 2020-2021 Seed Grant application process is now closed. Questions: Email farrellw@uw.edu
Fail Forward
Fail Forward is an event that brings the personal stories of prominent UW faculty, coaches, administrators, and notable community members to the forefront. These leaders share stories of failures and setbacks that they have faced over the course of their careers and describe how those experiences have shaped them personally and professionally.
Research Partnerships
The Resilience Lab partners with faculty, other UW divisions, and programs and initiatives that research themes of resilience and well-being, such as the Center for Child & Family Well-Being and the UW EXP Study. The Resilience Lab is conducting its own longitudinal study, too, which looks at students’ psychological capital (PsyCap) measuring hope, optimism, resilience, efficacy, self-compassion, perception of supports, and connectedness to the UW.
