Resilience Badge

"We all need resilience to live a fulfilling life. With resilience, you’ll be more prepared to take on challenges, to develop your talents, skills, and abilities so that you can live with more purpose and more joy." - Eric Grietens

Mason's Resilience Badge is a fully online, asynchronous learning opportunity that will allow you to further develop your resilience through content knowledge and practices, all of which are backed by the science of resilience. Deepening your own knowledge in these areas and honing your self-awareness will allow your thinking to become more flexible, more adaptable, and more creative. This will help you when it comes to solving problems, making decisions, and building the life you want. Completing this program will contribute to your ability to thrive in college and beyond.

Content

You will have the opportunity to:

• Discover what resilience is.
• Engage resilience through a growth mindset.
• Deepen your understanding of optimism to benefit resilience.
• Explore fear in the context of resilience.
• Find ways to respond to stress from a place of resilience.

The six modules will conclude with the development of an Individual Resilience Plan that will help you to think about resilience beyond this badge experience. This plan will support you in continuing to develop your resilience and to leverage it in reaching your goals (personal, professional, and/or academic).

By successfully completing each module, you will be able to:

• Explain the benefits of resilience.
• Define what resilience means in everyday life.
• Explain how you will use resilience to further your personal and professional growth.

Earning the Badge

By completing the requirements for each module, you will receive a Resilience Badge issued through the Education Design Lab and hosted through Acclaim. This shareable, digital file is one that you can list on your resume, add to your LinkedIn account, and use to distinguish your skillset from that of others.

Learn more about the value of earning the Resilience Badge in this video.

How to Enroll

The workshop content is accessible via Blackboard.

To enroll in the organization, send your name, G#, and Mason email address to ResBadge@gmu.edu.

Beginning August 31, you can enroll in the Resilience Badge by logging into Blackboard. Click on Life@Mason (top right of your screen). Select Sign Up Now and then select Submit.

Student Testimonials

Student feedback from earlier versions of the Resilience Badge that was offered in a face-to-face format was positive. Read what they have to say in this article and in the testimonials below:

• "This is a great learning experience to improve on self-discovery and how to overcome adversity."
• "If you are looking for an opportunity to build your resilience capacity and get to know yourself on a deeper level, this is a great workshop for that."
• "I have shared the badge on my LinkedIn profile and I’m planning to talk about the experience and what I gained from it in my interviews."
• "I hope to improve my chances of acquiring a job, as having a unique certificate will make me stand out."
• "I will definitely use the content learned in job interviews where similar situations will apply."
• "Mason's Resilience Badge was an inspiring workshop that pushed me to become more aware about growing and being a better person, even if resiliency is a lifelong journey (as are many things)."