Let's share our highlights from the week team. 🌿 Wins of the week 🌿 Adventures this week? 🌿 Adventures upcoming?

Big shout out to @Roy Houston @Michael Lohse and @Lynette Wehner on being the community leaders (7day). Another big shout out to @Rodney Thompson Outdoor Skills , @Michael Lohse and @Amanda Cunningham-Gray for being 30 day leaders! This means these people have consistently shown up, engaged, offered something to the group and undertaken courses / polls / challenges etc. If you want to be tip top on the leaderboard, these are the things to do. Special shout out to @Michael Lohse for being on both Leaderboards! Amazing! I truly love when you folks get involved, everyone is valued and has something to offer the community. Keep being you 😎

Morning team 🙌🏼 Today I have resilience on my mind. Resilience is a key term I hear thrown about a lot at the moment, particularly in educational settings and it has me wondering if people really understand it or do they just use the word because it's the 'in' buzzword. Resilience, at least to me, is about the ability to get through adversity and push on. It's a mindset. It's not something you feel at the time but realise after when you have processed and reflected on the adversity. I've struggled on and off with low mood and anxiety since around 17 and the only thing I have found useful at finding calm but also challenging my mindset is the outdoors. Below is an image, I'm 17 and walking up my first proper 'hill'. It was a low mood day for me and whilst the outdoors helps, it can still be a real struggle. I found this day a struggle, I wasn't particularly 'up' for the walk or learning as this was a walk as part of my college course. I pushed on though, took it in steps: •Get into the building, at least then you're present and it's harder to say no •Speak to at least 1 person in the class - distraction technique to attempt to change the mindset •Get kit organised & help others to do so - giving back makes us feel good. •Focus on each step and breathe deeply. Help the brain to notice the small things and start producing the happy hormones. Only after, did I realise that day I was resilient. We are not our thoughts, being present and having coping strategies can support us in times of need. The type 2 thing is because at the time it was a difficult day, lots of struggles emotionally BUT I enjoyed it after the fact. After reaching the summit, returning to the minibus and allowing my nervous system to adjust. I'd had a brilliant day. Do you have a moment where you've noticed your resilience? I'd love to hear it and share with the group to normalise resilient behaviours.

Do you have a favourite childhood outdoor activity that you can remember doing? It doesn't have to be the intricate carving with your granddad's penknife but equally that's great too! - Mine? being outdoors during the summer holidays, the freshly cut grass smell, my friends chapping on my door to see if I was 'coming oot to play' and then us all racing from the top of the council estate to the bottom, jumping fences and trying not to get caught! Great fun, even funnier if a friend was caught and being given a row 😅 Good times Anyone else want to reminisce 😁 Kids these days just won't have the same memories!

How's everyone's week gone? Any wins? Anything exciting you're working on? Any lows you want to share / need a listening ear? It's been a busy ol' week for myself, I've been working with someone helping me boost the social media for Recalibrate Outdoors on other social platforms, training in Suicide Intervention & Prevention - heavy stuff but very much needed in this day and age and LOTS of learning this week. An exciting weekend coming up too! -Saturday we are delivering a Birthday party -Sunday we have our adventure club 🌿 Check-in and let us know how you're getting on this week.