The course starts with practical examples of how our minds fool us into positions of powerlessness and techniques that tap into our natural resourcefulness. The course progresses through a framework for understanding how our minds can rapidly make decisions, but also how those quick reactions often lead us into flight, fight, or freeze mindsets, whereas ideally we would think critically, innovate, and collaborate. We then learn techniques to reset our minds to consciously tap into executive function, critical thinking, and perseverance, for ourselves and to develop those habits of mind for others, such as students, peers, coworkers, and family.

These are the habits of mind that the course develops:
*Motivation
*Grit and perseverance
*Creative and critical thinking
*Executive function and self-regulation
*Social emotional intelligence
*Constructive vs destructive states of mind

The course consists of 6 two-hour live sessions (12 hours of seat time), plus there are practice and reflection exercises after each session (5 hours of practice over the course of three weeks), and each person will create a lesson or lesson plan (3 hours to create the lesson) for a total of 20 hours. (20 CTLE Hours)

This course is especially helpful for being resourceful and resilient even when things go wrong, and will provide educators and students a framework for assessing problems and opportunities, coming up with solutions, listening to how other people are framing situations, and choosing what to do next in order to start and continue down a productive path instead of endless debates, inaction, half-hearted attempts, and dead-end game plans.

Over the long term, success depends on being able to prevail despite uncertainty and unpredictable change. This doesn't happen by accident; this happens through preparing to iterate quickly and well, observing the situation with discernment, analyzing and synthesizing to devise possible solutions, selecting the beneficial options, acting in ways that add to our own abilities and knowledge while minimizing the ability of unforeseen events and opposition to derail our progress, and then modifying our actions based on results.

This course covers habits of mind involved with
*Critical thinking
*Innovation
*Overcoming failure
*Decision making in complicated and complex situations
*Dealing with ambiguity
*Avoiding the traps of simplistic and urgent thinking
*Resilience
*Problem solving, design thinking, and iteration
*The differences between slow and fast problem solving and when to use each
*Individual and group decision making
*Analysis and synthesis

These skills are especially valuable in problem-based learning whether individual or in groups, and can also be used facing the many unforeseen obstacles that occur both in school and outside for both students and teachers. The course consists of 6 two-hour live sessions (12 hours of seat time), plus there are practice and reflection exercises after each session (5 hours of practice over the course of three weeks), and each person will create a lesson or lesson plan (3 hours to create the lesson) for a total of 20 CTLE Hours.

Most of the problems and opportunities we encounter involve other people. Sometimes people disagree with us, sometimes they oppose us. Success is often all about shifting mindsets.

We will develop an understanding of why the most common methods we use to influence others don't really work, and will practice the techniques that do. The course covers how the mind makes sense of situations, alternative methods of problem solving, preparing to learn from results that might not be what we want, what happens when people disagree with us and what we can do, how to resolve conflicts and influence others, foundations of wellbeing, navigating the murky worlds of stress, trauma, cognitive bias, and collective illusions, applying Mindshifting to whole brain teaching.

This course covers habits of mind involved with:
*Listening
*Exploration and curiosity
*Empathy
*Effective communication
*Influence and persuasion
*Conflict resolution
*Individual and group goal setting
*Changing antagonism to collaboration
*Stress, Trauma, and ADHD
*Constructive and destructive conflict
*Differences between compromise and collaboration
*Overcoming the negative influences of group and peer pressure

We can learn to be resourceful, and we can teach children to be resourceful, in a world with misinformation, divisiveness, competition, and adversity.

The course consists of 6 two-hour live sessions (12 hours of seat time), plus there are practice and reflection exercises after each session (5 hours of practice over the course of three weeks), and each person will create a lesson or lesson plan (3 hours to create the lesson) for a total of 20 hours. Each live session will be archived, so if a person misses a session, they can still watch the video archive. Although they will miss out on the interactive portions of the session, they will still receive credit for having attended the session. (26 CTLE Hours)