Skill Definitions
This skill involves cultivating small moments of thankfulness.
What is Gratitude?
This skill involves recognizing positive events in life and associating them with positive emotions.
What is Noticing Positive Events?
This skill involves sitting still and choosing one point of focus (often the breath) for a dedicated amount of time.
What is Mindful Meditation?
This program aims to build resilience, healing, and well-being by giving CVI professionals a set of skills to increase positive emotions.
What is FOREST?
Jeremiah forgot his lunch at home. He copes by saying to himself, “This is a normal mistake to make, a lot of people occasionally forget things,” and using his social skills to invite some coworkers to grab lunch with him.
What is self-compassion and strengths?
This skill involves setting goals that are just challenging enough and have clear steps to achieve them.
What is Attainable Goals?
This skill involves recognizing strengths, talents, skills, and positive qualities within ourselves and our communities.
What is Strengths?
Taking a photo, reflecting, or writing about the event are ways to practice this skill.
What is Savoring?
An increase in this can improve physical and mental health and protect against stress.
What is positive emotions?
Kenny spends a minute looking out the window at the beautiful sunset. He takes a picture and shows it to his coworkers the next day.
What is noticing positive events and savoring?
This skill involves paying attention in the present moment with a non-judgmental and accepting attitude.
What is Mindfulness?
This skill involves helping others without any expectation that they will do something for us in return.
What is Acts of Kindness?
Listening and supporting a friend is an example of this skill.
What is Acts of Kindness?
This is one benefit of practicing positive emotion skills.
Better mental health, better physical health, stronger relationships, feeling more fulfilled, lower burnout, better performance at work, improved attention and problem solving, or healthier coping.
Brianna’s coworker Charles has gone above and beyond to help her with a difficult project. She decides to write him a thank you note and bring him some cookies.
What is gratitude and acts of kindness?
This skill involves extending and amplifying the positive emotions from a positive event.
What is Savoring?
This skill involves treating ourselves with kindness.
What is Self-Compassion?
The opposite of self-compassion.
What is self-criticism?
The 10 skills FOREST teaches.
What is positive events, savoring, emotional awareness, mindfulness, gratitude, strengths, self-compassion, attainable goals, positive reappraisal, and acts of kindness.
Alicia is struggling to find a coworker who knows the answer to her question. She notices she is getting frustrated and decides to pause and focus on her breath for a moment.
What is emotional awareness and mindfulness?
This skill involves finding the "silver lining" in challenging situations.
What is Positive Reappraisal?
This skill involves understanding the functions of both positive and negative emotions and broadening our emotional vocabulary.
What is Emotional Awareness?
This is what SMART in SMART goal stands for.
What is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-based?
This is what FOREST stands for.
What is Fostering Optimal Regulation of Emotion for STaff well-being?
Deron is unable to complete a project he wanted to get done today. He says to himself, “At least there is no deadline for this project, and I have some more time to work on it this week.” He sets aside 2 hours a day for the rest of the week to get it done.
What is positive reappraisal and attainable goals?