Resilience
Considering the well-being of fragile students
Caroline Adams Miller is imploring schools to consider the well-being of their more fragile students as well as fostering grit and resilience. She is a guest speaker at New Zealand's first Positive… Audio
Along a fractured highway
After the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 12.02am on Monday 14th November near Hanmer Springs in the South Island of New Zealand, Simon Morton takes a trip by mountain bike north of Kaikoura to… Audio, Gallery
Parenting: dealing with disappointment
Souring friendships, tough times at school, disappointments big and small… How do you help a child navigate difficult emotions and build resilience – and when should you back off? Audio
James Allen - Dairy Farmer Meetings
At a series of farmer meetings around the country, sharemilkers and the farm owners are being given possible strategies to help them cope with the massive dairy payout drop. About 50 farmers attended… Audio
Resilience and why some people cope with trauma better
This week marked the 4th anniversary of the Christchurch and Canterbury earthquake. New research from the University of Otago in Christchurch with earthquake survivors is shedding some light on the… Audio
Nikolas Rose: resilience, brains and cities
Professor of Sociology at King's College, London, whose research concerns biological and genetic psychiatry and behavioural neuroscience. He is visiting New Zealand to talk at the Competing… Audio
New Zealand's Most Vulnerable Kids
Anusha Bradley speaks to six families involved in a long term study as the latest report explores what makes a child vulnerable. Audio
Ideas for 24 April 2011 - Climate Futures
Ideas examines the concept of resilience. Essentially it's the strengthening of the capacity of any town, city or country to withstand the knocks imposed on it by nature or man-made mishaps. Chris… Audio
The positivity ratio - Barbara Fredrickson
Leading social psychologist on the science of happiness and the value of cultivating positive emotions. She discovered that experiencing positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones leads… Audio
Insight 25 May 2008: Breaking the Cycle
Insight looks at youth resilience and asks what allows some young people, who have adverse home lives, to break the abuse cycle. Audio