The Resilience Game Plan: The Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Life Skills: Facilitator’s Guide for Sixth Grade

This publication is the Facilitator’s Guide to accompany The Resilience Game Plan: The Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Life Skills - Sixth Grade Student Edition. This manual equips educators with the necessary skills to identify at-risk students in their classroom, as well as provides the learning theories that educators will use as the framework for their Student’s Understanding and Performance Goals. This playbook manual also includes The Resilience Game Plan Facilitator’s Readiness Tool Kit which provides educators the tools they need to properly implement this intervention curriculum.

This playbook introduces social, emotional, cognitive, and biological self-regulation skills to help tweens improve their short- and long-term health outcomes. This playbook includes the following self-regulation life skills and eight topics:

Social Self-Regulation Life Skills: Media Literacy and CyberbullyingEmotional Self-Regulation Life Skills: Self-Worth and Caring CultureCognitive Self-Regulation Life Skills: Impulse Control/Risk-Taking Innovator and Flexible ThinkingBiological Self-Regulation Life Skills: Getting Grounded and Brain-Gut Connection

In The Resilience Game Plan (The RGP), when a difficult life situation hits, students are going to train their brain to:

1. Acknowledge the life situation-processing any emotions.

2. Allow themselves to feel their emotions-describing their feelings of anxiety or distress.

3. Keep moving forward-applying the below steps to overcome their situation.