Be the Leslie Knope of Whatever You Do: Resilience and Gratitude for Self-Advocacy in

the Workplace

Ashley RizzottoThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Foundations

KNOPE Method of Resilence Kindness to Yourself & Others

Norms & Challenging the Process

Owning Your Support System

Power (Knowing Where you Have it)

Ethical Commitments & Beliefs

Be Kind: To Yourself & Others!

• Managing Your Emotions

• Breeding Positivity

• Making a Mantra

Norms & Challenging the Process

• Be an Agent of Change: Inch by Inch

• Situate Yourself in Your Campus Culture

Owning Your Support System• Understanding Your “Why”

(Simon Selik- TED Talk)

• Start an Appreciation Folder

Embracing Your Power

• Strengths-Based & Positive Psychology

• Molding Your Influence

Beliefs and Ethical Commitment

Value Congruence

• Non-Negotiables

• Pick Your Hills

• VIA Character Assessment

Core Strategies of Resilience• The capacity to make realistic plans and take steps to carry

them out• A positive view of yourself and confidence in your strengths

and abilities• Skills in communication and problem solving• The capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses.

Know When You Are Over-Knopeing It

When you are:

Self-Advocacy and Self-Care

Self-Care

Self-Advocacy• Learned Optimism

• Practice Makes Perfect

• Action-Orientated Hope

• Past-Present-Future

Action-Oriented Hope• Past: Share a time that made you feel hopeful about pursing

your current profession• Present: Share experiences at work that continually energize

you

• Future: Share the elements of a work environment and role that would be important for you to continually feel hopeful in your future

When in doubt, KNOPE it out!

Contact Info:A_Rizzot@uncg.edu

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