Promoting Resilience in Higher Education
What is Resilience?
The PSTs initial perspectives of resilience were somewhat individualistic. Over time, their perspectives moved to a more complex understanding of social systems and interactions, as shown in their art pieces.
It’s all about the flow
Foregrounding Student Voice
When everything’s going well in school, being ‘in the zone’.
It comes from a‘ bigger’ place of the community or world, and flows back down to the big pool of ‘the world’.
All the vessels it flows through are a bit different, different people, different flows, but everyone’s involved.
Can’t all be made of brick because then you can’t grow
Generating Alternate Perspectives
Need pants made of bricks to have a stable and strong bottom half. They can be heavy to walk in, so with strength comes difficulty.
You also need a barrier of self-protection on the chest, but not brick Armor because you can’t cover all of you because then you can’t be open to change and growth (so you need vulnerability) – the capacity to take risks.
You also have the sun, which is a source of support and allows trees and flowers to grow on the top half all the while the brick pants are keeping you stable.
Moving between the clouds and sunny days
Using Arts-Based Methods
This PST explains how she moved from an individualistic perspective to an ecological perspective.
