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Resiliency

Real Time Resilience

Mission and Vision

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Mission: Implements the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program, identifies and trains Master Resiliency Trainers (MRTs) and commences annual resiliency sustainment training in order to enhance overall performance, improve unit level readiness, and sustain a balanced, healthy, campaign capable, expeditionary army

End state: Will improve unit readiness and performance by implementing the Resiliency Training program. The end state will see a more balanced, healthy and capable Brigade Combat Team

Task: Use Real Time Resilience to shut down counterproductive thinking to enable greater concentration and focus on the task at hand.

Conditions: Within a classroom environment and 90 minute timeframe.

Standards: Understand that optimism is a primary target of Real Time Resilience

Task, Conditions, Standards

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Real-time Resilience

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Bottom Line Up Front

Real-time Resilience helps to build Optimism.

Real-time Resilience involves proving your thoughts false with evidence, thinking optimistically, and putting the situation in perspective.

Real-time Resilience is the skill of fighting back against counterproductive thoughts as soon as they occur so you remain task-focused and motivated.

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Real-time Resilience

Challenge counterproductive thoughts as they occur.

Use it to get back to the task at hand.

Use it to prepare for an anticipated Activating Event.

This is an internal skill.

This is not to be used out loud.

This is not a tool for insubordination.

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Applications

When will Real-time Resilience be particularly helpful to you as a Soldier and as a family member?

When would you NOT want to use Real-time Resilience?

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Real-time Advanced Level

Used when what you are saying to yourself is counterproductive

Advanced level is accurate and fast.

Advanced level uses:Evidence

Optimism

Put It In Perspective

Advanced level requires practice, practice, practice!

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Real-time Advanced Level: Demonstration

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Real-time Resilience Advanced Level Demo

Write down three words that capture what you just saw.

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Real-time PitfallsCommon mistakes made while

learning the skill

Dismissing the grain of truth

One time, one thing

Minimizing the situation

The situation does matter

Rationalizing or excusing one’s contribution to a problem

Take responsibility

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Skill Building through Sentence Starters

Use evidence to prove the thought is false.

That’s not (completely) true because….

Generate a more optimistic way of seeing it.

A more optimistic way of seeing this is...

Put It In Perspective.

The most likely implication is… and I can…

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When would you use Real-time Resilience?

What are examples of situations in which RTR will be most helpful to you?

You were just chewed out by a Drill Sergeant and now you have to go back and complete a mission.

You are new to combative and you have some self-doubt. It’s your turn.

You’ve just read an upsetting e-mail from home, and you have to get ready for First Formation.

You need to be calm.

You’re about to go in front of the promotion board.

You need to get to sleep. (Norton had a mission to do the next day.)

You’re making the transition from work to home.

You’ve got road rage.

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Key Principles

Practice: Real-time Resilience takes ongoing practice.

Accuracy over speed: Focus on accuracy and passing the gut test, not speed.

Learning curve: The pitfalls are common and part of the learning process.

Do-over: When you hear a pitfall, pause and generate a stronger response.

Optimism: Real-time Resilience builds all of the MRT competencies; Optimism is a primary target.

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RTR Practice

Activities:

Practice RTR with your group.

Practice RTR with a partner.

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Group Practice

You give me the negative thought.

I will model a good use of the skill by fighting each of the negative thoughts with one of the sentence starters, or I will model a pitfall.

You will help me craft a stronger response if my initial response is weak or includes a pitfall.

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Partner Practice

Try to:Use Evidence to prove the thought is false.

Generate a more optimistic way of seeing it.

Put It In Perspective.

Avoid:Dismissing the grain of truth.

Minimizing the situation.

Rationalizing or excusing one’s contribution to a problem.

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Debrief

What did you learn from practicing this skill?

What was difficult for you in practicing this skill?

Which sentence starter was most effective for you in challenging your thoughts?

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Check on Learning

What is the skill? Real-time Resilience (RTR) is an internal skill to shut down counterproductive thinking and build motivation and focus on the task at hand.

When do I use it? Use RTR when your thoughts are distracting you from an immediate goal or task.

How do I use it? Respond to your negative thoughts in the heat of the moment by providing evidence against the thought, by generating a more optimistic way of seeing it, or by Putting the thought In Perspective. Watch out for common pitfalls.

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Resiliency

Questions

AAR

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21As of 25 Oct 10

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