FIS Staff Activity 4: Gallery Walk by Kristin Daniel https://padlet.com/kristinbdaniel/uf66xsimuvim1vif What can you take from what you learned today to put into practice for sustaining your own resilience and well-being? Think about your role, your capacity, your power, and what can you actually do to build resilience in your community. Provide an example of what that practice is that you want to cultivate and what kind of support you may need to get there. If you'd like, please include your name. en-us 2020-09-30 21:59:17 UTC 2026-03-16 04:45:33 UTC hello@padlet.com I will continue to do things step by step, take a deep breath in between, and try to share smiles and greetings as often as possible. https://padlet.com/kristinbdaniel/uf66xsimuvim1vif/wish/794505959 2020-10-01 13:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinbdaniel/uf66xsimuvim1vif/wish/794505959 Thoughts... https://padlet.com/kristinbdaniel/uf66xsimuvim1vif/wish/794896001 After this session and thinking about it for a while, I personally believe that the word resilience is a very harsh word. A “Men made“ word evolved over time that already includes a valuation of a person- being capable of handling challenges in life better or less.  An expectation of the society we have established for ourselves over hundreds of years. 
I believe we are all rather given opportunities of growth and learning in life. And it is not about mastering the art of being resilient. Nothing that ever happens in life is entirely just bad. It all comes with a lesson - for ourselves and sometimes for others involved. How we handle the opportunity of growth and learning shapes not only us in that situation but also influences other people involved. 
Even if we are in an opportunity of growth and learning and we could easily master that opportunity but another person involved cannot, there is still a lesson in that situation for both sides - the one struggling possibly learns new skills or shifts their mindset and the one easily handling the opportunity of growth and learning learns the most essential skill in life - COMPASSION. Compassion involves feeling and caring and loving. Acting with compassion also says “I feel you, I care about you, I love you for who you are” and that creates trust and faith in the struggling person. Trust and faith overcome fear. Because fear is what is ultimately holding us back from successfully taking on an opportunity of growth and learning. 
Compassion is what I am trying to work on every day. In the end I even have to be compassionate with myself because I am human and I cannot be perfect but I can always give my very best and try.
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