CorStone Toolkit

CorStone offers a multi-disciplinary and integrative approach to developing and supporting emotional resiliency in children, families and organizations. We provide tools and techniques delivered through a combination of didactic trainings, a proven award-winning facilitative peer support model, and an emphasis on sustainable results.

Our goal is to nurture and empower individuals’ capacity to make conscious, positive choices and deal with adversity of any kind in a resilient and peaceful manner.

 

Positive Psychology

Positive Psychology is an academic discipline that studies optimal human functioning. Positive Psychology aims to scientifically study human ‘character’ strengths, cognitions, positive feelings, and behaviors that help an individual or community to thrive and build a life ‘worth living’. Positive Psychology is well-suited to character and leadership development, social-emotional learning, as well as the building of healthy teams and institutions. Positive Psychology has also proven effective as a preventative approach to clinical depression and other mental illnesses in youth.
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Attitudinal Healing

Emotionally resilient people have a specific set of attitudes concerning themselves and their role within the world that enables them to deal with life challenges more effectively than their non-resilient peers. Attitudinal Healing offers a way to consciously choose to let go of fearful attitudes and embrace a loving and forgiving path. The goal is not simply to change behavior, but to re-train the most powerful instrument of change we possess, our own mind.
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Restorative Practices

Restorative Practices is an emerging field of study that enables people to build and repair relationships and community. Restorative Practices promote resiliency, responsibility and healing while dealing with the repercussions of conflict. Restorative Practices have been used successfully in schools in a variety of ways in the US and other countries, ranging from improving classroom behavior to transforming the school culture.
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