Bounce Back Better® System

As a Certified and Licensed Trainer of The Flourishing Center's Bounce Back Better® System or B³®, I teach individuals the key theories and skills that enable resilience, well-being, flourishing and personal mastery. Resilience is what keeps you moving forward when you most want to quit. It is the key to unlock success in any kind of challenging endeavor. It is a mindset that is essential for happiness and well-being.

The good news is that mental toughness or "resilience" is a teachable skill.  Although a lot of people think that resilience is something that we are either born with or without, a growing body of scientific research reveals that not only is resilience a capacity that we all have as human beings but it is also a skill that can be learned and developed over time. 

The Bounce Back Better® or B³® System is designed to help people enhance the natural resilience they already have, with research-based tools and resources from positive psychology to build hardiness, help them move through challenges and bounce back better from adversity. In the B³® program, participants will uncover the basic mental, emotional, physical and spiritual/social skills of resilience and learn how to build them. They will learn what resilience is and why it matters. They will tap into their existing resilience and grow it even more. They will understand how adversities are not only natural but essential to success. They will learn to redirect stress before it becomes distress. 

The B³® System consists 16 basic building blocks for bouncing back better, each of which falls into the category of either mental, emotional, physical or spiritual/social skills. These skills also progressively build on top of one another through four levels of competence. The 16 building blocks are intended as stand-alone sessions which can be taught as individual modules or in consecutive order. While the sessions are each “stand-alone” and can be facilitated in random order, they make the most sense when they are offered in sequence. People who choose to complete all 16 building blocks, will have completed the entire Bounce Back Better® System and will receive a certificate of completion from The Flourishing Center®. The program also includes an introductory session on The Science of Resilience. Each module can be delivered in as little as 1 hour or as many as 3-4 hours depending on the audience size, number of exercises/activities and how much room is allotted for discussion and questions. The average length of each of the 16 modules I teach is 2 hours. All sessions include lecture with slides, worksheets, activities, exercises, group discussion, suggested reading and optional resources.  

The topics of the 16 building blocks or modules are as follows:

1. Growth Mindset: From Judgments to Curiosity

2. Leveraging Positivity & Befriending Negativity

3. Physical Activity: Balance Strength & Flexibility

4. Meaning & Purpose: You Matter

5. The ABCDEFG of Personal Mastery™

6. Emotional Intelligence: Thoughts & Feelings

7. Breathing for Regulating Thoughts & Feelings

8. The Science of the Hive: You Belong

9. Working with Worry & Doubting Your Doubts™

10. Energy Management: Becoming Your Own CEO (Chief Energy Officer)™

11. Nutrition: Feeding Resilience

12. Pronoia: A Benevolent Universe

13. Mind Over Chatter™: Practical Reframes for Mastering Your Thoughts

14. Emotion Alchemy: A Practical Tool for Mastering Feelings

15. Mind-Body Fitness: Movements for Mastering Your Life

16. Intuition & Decisions: Mastering Alignment

This program is great for adults and young adults who want to increase their resilience. Mental skills will equip participants to deal with thoughts, worries, judgments, and beliefs that may typically overwhelm them. Emotional skills will empower them to feel the way they want to feel, working with emotions rather than getting stuck in them.  Physical skills will help them keep their body strong, vibrant and healthy, boosting their mood, enabling creativity and focus. Spiritual/social skills will help them create meaning & purpose, build high quality human connections and manifest their goals and desires. 

Bounce Back Better® and B³® are registered trademarks of The Flourishing Center® (TFC), a New York based Benefit Corporation (BCorp) and SCorp.