Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience

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In this learner-centered mental health education program, you can…

  • Build your mental health toolbox with practical skills and techniques for managing stress and responding to negative emotions.

  • Explore resources in the community and make personal connections with your peers.

Introduction to Abby’s Impact: The What, Why, and How of Building Your Resiliency Toolbox

In this session, we will discuss stress, including the science behind when it’s helpful and when it becomes a problem, as well as how learning and practicing resilience skills can help our overall wellbeing, and details of what you can learn through the Abby’s Impact program. After attending this session, you’ll be able to enroll in other Abby’s Impact programming.

Session Times

  • Thursday, March 13, 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. MT

  • Tuesday, March 25, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. MT

  •  Thursday, April 10, 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. MT

  • Thursday, April 24, 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. MT

Introduction to Abby’s Impact

Resilience Skills classes focus on the following topics:

The Introduction to Abby’s Impact session needs to be completed before registering for the Resilience Skills classes.

  • Why is it so hard to offer ourselves the same kindness and understanding we would offer a friend? Learn why being compassionate to yourself is a strength, not a weakness, and how giving yourself a little grace can help to build your overall resilience.

    • Tuesday, April 15, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

  • Did you know that elite athletes like LeBron James practice mindfulness regularly to improve their performance? In this class you will learn easy, approachable tools and techniques to help you to stay grounded and embrace the present moment.

    • Tuesday, March 4, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

    • Tuesday, April 22, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

  • How are our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related, and why is it so easy to get caught up in a negativity spiral? If you’ve ever found yourself jumping to worst case scenarios, obsessing over what “should” have happened, or falling into the trap of perfectionism, join us for this class to unpack these and other common but unhelpful mindsets and cognitive patterns.

    • Tuesday, March 18, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

  • Did you know that gratitude has been scientifically proven to be one of the most effective tools for increasing overall happiness? Join us to learn how practicing gratitude can not only help you build positive interpersonal relationships, but can also create new connections to the “bliss center” of your brain, help regulate stress, and build neural pathways to promote positive thinking.

    • Tuesday, March 25, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

  • Have you ever felt completely out of control, like your emotions were running away with you, like you’re about to do something you’ll regret later? Learn simple, practical tools to help you better control how you respond to your emotions instead of letting your emotional responses control you.

    • Tuesday, April 1, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

  • What is your communication style and is it helping or hurting your ability to communicate effectively and get your needs met? Join us to learn useful techniques for expressing your needs and building your interpersonal communication skills. 

    • Tuesday, April 8, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

New courses

  • This beginner-friendly, four-week course combines practical mindfulness tools with insightful learning. Discover how mindfulness can help you navigate stress, strengthen resilience, and help you live with more ease. Join Abby’s Impact Resiliency Instructor Paula Stephens twice a week for easy, bite-size classes to get the understanding and hands-on experience needed to integrate, practice, and learn mindfulness.

    Click here to register for this four-week course.

    This course meets virtually twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00 – 6:45 p.m., starting Tuesday, April 15 and ending Thursday, May 8.

  • Join Abby’s Impact’s incredible Resiliency Instructor Paula Stephens for a virtual meditation session and give yourself a moment of peace. No pressure, just time to come together and to be held in stillness and presence. Whether you have experience with meditation and mindfulness or are a total beginner, join us to take time to fill your cup, make space to pause, breathe, and reconnect with a sense of calm.

    Click here to register for an upcoming session.

    • Tuesday, March 11, 12:15 – 1:00 p.m.

    • Thursday, April 10, 12:15 – 1:00 p.m

If you have any questions or would like more information about Abby’s Impact, please contact Emily Tow, Abby’s Impact Program Coordinator at 720.248.4603.

To support Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience, please contact Jessica Zeidman, Chief Advancement Officer, at 720.248.4663.

THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS:

The Lewkowitz and Meisterplass Families

Though Abby’s Impact explores mental health topics and evidence-based practices, it is an education program and should not be considered an alternative to counseling, therapy, or other mental health services. For more information about mental health services available through JFS, contact us at klein@jewishfamilyservice.org or call 720.722.4496. If you are having a life-threatening emergency, or you need immediate assistance, please call 911 or 844.493.TALK (8255).