Thrive Through It

A self-paced journey for a thriving college experience

The Thrive Through It student resilience course is grounded in positive psychology research, which supports resilience as a key factor for improving student wellbeing, engagement, academic performance, and persistence. Based on this research, we know that the capacity for positive academic outcomes can be enhanced through the resilience of the individual. In other words, the more resilient an individual is, the more likely he or she will have the capacity to overcome challenges and risks and have a successful, thriving college experience.

The Thrive Through It student resilience course begins with a scientifically validated Resilience Success Assessment, designed to measure the seven key factors associated with academic resilience for college students. Students will then enjoy:

  • A user-friendly, self-paced course experience,
  • full audio capability,
  • interactive exercises,
  • and a custom completion certificate.
Course Lessons

The Thrive Through It course contains a variety of resilience-building lessons all designed specifically around the 7 Building Blocks of Resilience. Through this journey, students will gain valuable new resilience skills that will help them face challenges with strength and find new meaning and success among the inevitable stressors that are part of everyday college life.

Course lessons include: Purpose, Hope, Goals, Optimism, Mindset, Self-Efficacy, Negative Thinking, Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Gratitude, Positive Emotions, Empathy, Forgiveness, Goals, Expectations, Strengths, Participation, Flow, and Giving Back.

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Why Thrive Through It

For Families

The stressful nature of college life can lead to difficulties in student wellbeing and success. While some students come into college prepared to cope with the stress of this transition, the data tell us that many students are negatively impacted by it.

Stress
  • Six out of ten students report having felt so stressed they couldn't get their work done on one or more occasions.
  • Stress is the number one reported impediment to academic performance.
Emotional Health
  • Almost 40% of males and 50% of females reported feeling so depressed that they had difficulty functioning one or more times.
  • Three out of five students experienced "overwhelming" anxiety, just in the past year.
  • Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among college students.
Retention
  • One in every four students leaves college before completing their sophomore year.
  • College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school.

RESILIENCE CAN BE LEARNED!
The good news is, while students may not have control over many of these external factors, they do have control over how to respond to them.

Based on years of research, we know that mental wellness can be enhanced through the resilience of the individual.

Resilience is a skill all students can learn: to shift their perspective and respond to life events in a way that not only helps them 'bounce back' but also to grow and be positively transformed!

Thrive Through It is a specially designed online learning journey to help foster resilience and build inner awareness, strength, compassion, optimism, and self-efficacy. Through this learning, students gain a new lens to help them see their college experiences from a different perspective and find new meaning, worth, and success among the inevitable challenges and stressors that are part of everyday college life.

For Secondary Education

Many of the challenges high school students face as they transition into college stem from their inability to manage the new stressors of college life. The good news is, while students may not have control over many of these external factors, they do have control over how to respond to them.

Based on years of research, we know that mental wellness can be enhanced through the resilience of the individual.

Stress
  • Six out of ten students report having felt so stressed they couldn't get their work done on one or more occasions.
  • Stress is the number one reported impediment to academic performance.
Emotional Health
  • Almost 40% of males and 50% of females reported feeling so depressed that they had difficulty functioning one or more times.
  • Three out of five students experienced "overwhelming" anxiety, just in the past year.
  • Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among college students.
Retention
  • One in every four students leave college before completing their sophomore year.
  • College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school.

Resilience is a skill all students can learn: to shift their perspective and respond to life events in a way that not only helps them 'bounce back' but also to grow and be positively transformed!

Thrive Through It is a specially designed online learning journey to help foster resilience and build inner awareness, strength, compassion, optimism, and self-efficacy. Through this learning, students gain a new lens to help them see their college experiences from a different perspective and find new meaning, worth, and success among the inevitable challenges and stressors that are part of everyday college life.

For Higher Education

The stressful nature of college life can lead to difficulties in student wellbeing and success. While some students come into college prepared to cope with the stress of this transition, the data tell us that many of the students are negativity impacted by it. Of the 45 percent of students who start college and fail to complete their degree, less than one-quarter are dismissed for poor academic performance. Most leave for other reasons, such as stress, anxiety, and other psychological challenges that, if left unaddressed, can have a debilitating effect on their academic performance and social adjustment.

Stress
  • Six out of ten students report having felt so stressed they couldn't get their work done on one or more occasions.
  • Stress is the number one reported impediment to academic performance.
Emotional Health
  • Almost 40% of males and 50% of females reported feeling so depressed that they had difficulty functioning one or more times.
  • Three out of five students experienced "overwhelming" anxiety, just in the past year.
  • Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among college students.
Retention
  • One in every four students leaves college before completing their sophomore year.
  • College students with depression are twice as likely as their classmates to drop out of school.

These problems are not new problems and are only growing more concerning. Based on the literature, prevention and fostering resilience skills are key factors to helping students better manage their wellbeing. Not only can learning resilience skills prevent and reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety, but it can also increase optimism and improve wellbeing and physical health.

Resilience is a skill all students can learn: to shift their perspective and respond to life events in a way that not only helps them 'bounce back' but also to grow and be positively transformed!

If higher education institutions are able to enhance resilience skills among their individual students, they will increase overall wellbeing, which will lead to more positive outcomes, such as academic success and persistence.

Thrive Through It is a specially designed online learning journey to help foster resilience and build inner awareness, strength, compassion, optimism, and self-efficacy. Through this learning, students gain a new lens to help them see their college experiences from a different perspective and find new meaning, worth, and success among the inevitable challenges and stressors that are part of everyday college life.