Building Your Bounce Online Course

You are invited to join Dr. Nefertiti Poyner, Early Childhood Specialist and National Trainer with the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, on a journey of discovering strategies that promote adult resilience. This self-paced learning experience shines a light on how adults who prioritize their own well-being have a greater capacity to provide the kind of high-quality care that young children deserve.

• This self-paced course invites participants to learn how thoughts, behaviors, and actions throughout the day can be used to promote resilience and better manage daily hassles and major life adversities.
• Through a series of challenges, participants are actively engaged in learning how the most ordinary moments in the day can transform how we engage with others, talk to ourselves in kinder ways and find happiness and joy despite challenges and adversities in life!
• Including interaction, reflection, and application of skills learned, this course takes approximately 2.5-3 hours to complete.

1. Recognize the positive impact of four key protective factors: (1) healthy relationships; (2) positive internal beliefs; (3) initiative; and (4) self-control on the mental health and resilience of adults who care for young children
2. Practice strengthening the four key protective factors through simple exercises that focus on using thoughts, behaviors, and actions that contribute to resilience.

• The optimal browsers to use for taking this course are Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
• Speakers/headphones are required in order to hear the author's narration.
• You will have access to the course for one year from the date you are set up