A note from the team here at PositivePsychology.com, concerning COVID-19…
Like many of you, our hearts are heavy with concerns for the global community’s wellbeing.
We believe that now, more than ever, positive psychology can really help lift others up.
That is why we have decided that we will do everything in our power to help you help those you care for.
We have created a brand new resource, “The Crisis Kit: 5 Tools For Helping Clients Through Turbulent Times”, containing five of the most relevant, science-based tools to help you help others navigate turbulence and uncertainty.
You can download it here, for free:
For one tool, “Eye of the Hurricane Meditation”, we have also included a guided meditation version.
You can download the audio file here
or listen to the YouTube version here.
Upon opening the PDF, you will find the following tools:
- Eye of the Hurricane Meditation
- Dealing With Uncontrollable Circumstances
- The Unwanted Guest
- Window of Tolerance
- My Resilience Plan (The Four S’s)
These are some of the best tools we know of for helping people to:
- Use their mental resources well
- Connect to a place of inner peace
- Become aware of factors within and beyond personal control
- Practice acceptance-based coping
- Remain calm and composed in the face of stress
We hope that through this resource, you can find more ways to be of help to those you care about.
Thank you for the tool kit
Hi Heather-Susan,
No problem at all. Hope you find it useful!
– Nicole | Community Manager
I was asked to give a 30 minute presentation for my work (Texas Tech Health Science Center- counseling contracts only) on anything that might be helpful to myself and my coworkers. We do this once a year for all of our counseling contract employees. We work at a psychiatric hospital prison dealing with crisis management. Could I present your Crisis Kit, as is, with reference to your site…of course? It has helpful tips that can help our patients!
Hi Lori,
Yes, of course — feel free to share this resource in your presentation with a mention of our website 🙂
– Nicole | Community Manager
Thank you and blessings! I will site your website. This will be so helpful, much appreciation! 😇🙏
Thank you so much for sharing these activities, they worked great when combined in imaginaries, art therapy or CBT. they have been helping a lot of clients, and you deserves the blessings for making change in their life.
The Crisis Kit is very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you very much for this. It is indeed a great help during this trying time in our lives.
Thank you so much for this toolkit, so much appreciated 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thank you and excellent resource which I will use with my group, they are newcomers from all over the world.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing. I plan to digest and then share with my team of 40
Thanks for your coherence in this social and health crisis. Thanks for share.
From Mexico. La alegría de compartir la alegría de vivir.
Since it says you can not reproduce it without permission are we allowed to copy the worksheets for our clients?
Hi Roseann, yes for personal use you may of course copy the worksheets for your clients.
Thank you. Generous and timely.
Thank you for sharing this toolkit
Thank you . It is very helpful resource material. It will help us to be calm and resilient.
This is good and sounds practical. In my mind, I will rearrange the 5 items as follows:
1) Anchor on your inner peace
2) keep calm
3) Be aware of the factors outside your control and how it affects you
4) Use your mental resources
5) Practice “acceptance based” coping
This is good for organisations in this time of crisis
This is an incredible resource – thanks for making it available. Will use it with my church community:-)
Super, me encanto
This is a fantastic resource, thank you so much. i will be using it with my MBA students.
Haven’t gone though the material yet. Still, thanks for your willingness to share.
Thank you for sharing this great and helpful toolkit.
The Eye of the Hurricane is a simple yet powerful analogy of where we are today and the importance of staying grounded.
thanks
Thank you so much. This is a wonderful resource. May God bless you for you good intentions
Thank you so much for these tools! Great stuff. I love the Eye of the Hurricane meditation. Thank you
Thank you very much for the crisis kit. May you and your families be safe during this time of uncertainties.
Thanks Hugo….. My searching for some extra information takes shape after going through this article. As I need to provide continuous motivation to my trainees during this period its really helpful…Thanks once again
Very helpful and practical kit. Thank you very much!
Thanks Hugo. We surely need that extra support in any shape and form.
Thank you so much yet again! For another great resource. Have already used one of these with some clients and found it VERY beneficial. Please keep them coming.
As a counsellor actively looking for helpful resources for my clients in these challenging times, I’d also like to link to it, with a credit and link to your site. Thanks for whipping this up!
thank you so much for sharing, it will be very very useful for me
Dear Hugo Thanks so much it is very useful and applied for me and collegus
Thank you for sharing. We all need resources and I am continually impressed how we are all working to help each other!
Thank you for sharing! Be well and stay safe!
This is a fantastic resource, thank you so much for caring about and supporting us all, after all, we are all one human family on this precious planet!!!!
Dear Hugo, Thanks so much for this, its extremely useful both for me and some immediate friends. I have been asked some questions that I in no way feel qualified to answer. Perhaps it would be possible to give me some direction.
Many people are now confined to their homes due the circumstances we now find ourselves in. Many people previously had a form of escape from abusive relationships from partners and parents by going to work and school etc, now they find themselves in permanent close proximity to their abusers. A very difficult situation no doubt, with no absolute solutions.
What would be the best course of action for people finding themselves in this situation?
Wishing you well,
Sean.
I am in Ontario, Canada and work with a primary care team of general practitioners and nurses. They have asked me to look for resources for the community to post on their webpage. Can I use these materials? I will give you full citation credit and link to your website. There is no charge for our services so it would be free access too. We are trying to spread resources for easy access.
Hi Susan, yes you can share the materials as long as the citation and link to our website is provided! Wishing you all the best.
Thank you
Dear Dr. Alberts,
I am the founder and owner of Mirasol Recovery Centers in Tucson, AZ. We treat eating disorders, anorexics, bulimics, and compulsive/ binge eaters. Adolescents and adults.
I find your work awe-inspiring. I have downloaded and shared many of your offerings. I personally find Positive Psychology to be a necessary factor in giving my particular population hope. It is so necessary in holistic healing.
I would like to have your permission to post your Crisis Kit on my website, giving you complete acknowledgment for your work. I know that many people who visit our website would find it so helpful. Mirasol’s website is http://www.mirasol.net.
I’ll look forward to hearing from you, with my fingers crossed!
Warmly,
Jeanne Rust, PhD
CEO/Founder
Mirasol, Inc.
http://www.mirasol.net
520-425-1522
Hi Jeanne, thank you so much for your kind words! Yes, you may share the resource but please do link to our page 🙂
Lucinda, PositivePsychology.com
Very useful, thank you. Have you thought of translating it into Spanish. I can help. I am a professional translator as well as a clinical psychologist.
Thank you and Thank You for all you do!
Thank You. This is a gracious gift. I will pass it forward. You are appreciated!
I LOVE YOUR GENEROUS RESOURCES
Thank for these valuable tools, God bless and keep you safe from all harm
Thank you so much 🙂
Thank you very much!
That’s really most kind of you, thank you so much.
Thank you, this free offer is very generous of you
Thank you so much!
Stay safe and positive! ?
P.S. I’m so grateful to have you in my life!
Thank you so much for sharing this! It will be much appreciated.
And for you and your team please stay safe!
Many Thanks for sharing, a wondeful resource.
Thanks you, Hugo. We make our lives worth and by helping others we make a difference, and build a better environment to all people.
Thank you so much guys for this kit, it has come in handy for my clients especially those living with anxiety at this time of uncertainity.
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much. Stay safe and keep up your good work please.
Thank you for sharing these helpful tools during a time that they are much needed..
Be well, stay safe 🙂
thank you
Thank you!
Thank You very much.
THANK YOU
Thank you.
A gesture of a great generosity and caring !
Thank you!
Excellent material and intentional purpose. Thank you for making this available and mostly thank you for making it free. Humanity.
Hello!
This is fantastic – thanks for giving it away for free!
I am a Coach for people who are writing their PhDs. Remaining calm, being able to focus and being productive is their core challenge.
Now I can provide them with these tools for free in Corona-Times which is fantastic! thank you so much!!
I’m grateful you provided useful tools that enable me to help my people. Many many thanks!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you!!
Thank you for such a great aid!
Tremendous gratitude for such a service introduced to us . It was my inspirational read for today .
The unwanted guest is a very creative picture to use with teenager and students , The WOT’S exercise is an effective tool for teaching mindful understanding , discernment ,to discover our true and essentials, being deeply present in the well of clarity ,
Thank you 😉
Thank you for giving so freely to help those around us through this crisis. You are awesome!
Thank you so much for this generous offer. I have shared with others.
Thank you for your work and for sharing this in a universally difficult time. Much appreciated.
Thank you very much for this loving gift of great help. I’m going to share it with my community, it’s a great help.
Stay on the path, Blessings and Love.
Thank you for this – am adapting it for our front line health workers who are really struggling and we are putting up a portal of resources to build resilience and support them. So grateful to you guys for putting this together. Keep safe and well everyone!
Thank you so much.It really does make a difference.
Thank you very much! That is a magnificient idea of how we can help in these times!
Huge thanks!
I just stepped in as a voluntarist for helping students & employees with resilience.
I actually got emotional myself when I opened the file an saw all the work you guys put in it.
Big thanks & keep up the good work .
Thank you for providing these resources to help the world at this difficult time!
Grateful and much helpful.
Thanks
This is a wonderful resource!
Great resources! Thank you for sharing these.
Thank you, very helpful ,
Thank you very much! These look very good, and I will be sure to explore them in depth, so that I may use them effectively. As a school counsellor, I do encounter many students who face things that they cannot control often because they are simply too young, or because they are caught in the middle amongst the grown-ups and their problems. So, this will not only be useful in the current atmosphere, but in my daily work.
I am very grateful.
Thank you SO much! Having these tools to help clients (and ourselves) cope is incredibly valuable.
Thanks a bunch. You are a super human.
Thank you so much for providing these tools to help people deal with such an unmanageable situation. I will start tomorrow to use them with my clients, and everyone that needs coping skills.
Thanks for sharing!
This is such a wonderful gift.
During this time challenging time, it’s so helpful to have such valuable tools to support those doing it tough .
No doubt I shall be using them myself too!
Thank you so much for your generosity in seeking to make a positive difference in the lives of others
Love your work
Dear Seph and Hugo and Team
Thank you very much for this great Kit, I will start using it tomorrow!! I am going to start helping patients who are suffering from this terrible covid-19 as a volunteer.
You are great!!
Thank you very much!
A great resource to use in my clinic. Thanks for sharing and giving me more time to work with clients.
Thank you so much! Kindness, compassion and collaboration will get us through.
Amazing! Thanks for the support
Thank you for this! You guys are amazing and so thoughtful! (I love your emails!) ❤
I forgot to mention, would you like us to keep your website & company name on the pages, or are we allowed to reformat with our information?
Hi Shawna, please keep the booklet intact. It is not a white-label product to be rebranded or resold. Thank you 🙂
Great reading too, reminding us of what we have control of and what we can’t control. Enjoyed the unwanted guest section. I have been completing an online course of EFT and that was talking about the power of metaphors to help tell a story ? A lot of NLP practitioners do the same. As you say more understandable and less scientific jargon.
Thanks so much for your concern and help, surely these tools are going to benefit lots of people, including ourselves!
Brill resources as ever, thankyou. Had a little listen at meditation will listen fully when I retire for the night
What a wonderful resource. Thank you for taking the time time prepare this during the current crisis I know my clients will value the lessons learned.
Huge thanks!
I just stepped in as a voluntarist for helping students & employees with resilience.
Big thanks for the tools
This is an amazing resource that I’ll be sharing with my clinical team tomorrow. We’ve gotten lots of calls and expect that for the next few months will be providing lots of online psychotherapy for our clients. Thanks again for this info in this time of national and global crisis!
Thank you for these tools. I will use some of the coping mindfulness exercises in the coming days with clients and reminding myself to use them to keep centered and grounded.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
All the articles out there are about ‘being productive while working at home’ I love that your Crisis Kit addresses the inner self and keeping things in perspective for better health.
Brilliant!
Thank you for sharing any and all resources that may help those we care for and about
Perfect timing – much appreciated. I shared with some elementary school teachers who are looking for ways to discuss the situation with their students. Great tools!
Hugo, the quality of your organisation spirals upwards continuously.
Thank You,
Bryan
Thanks, Brian, our aim is to offer the highest value possible!
Wonderful resource to give out. I’m doing a free training this week on worrying less too and will cite some of this there.
Thank you this is fantastic, I shared a post with my clients hopefully they will respond so I may help them with your help.
Thank you so much, as many here in the United States are in the early stages of panic mode. I am posting various ways to help them deal with the uncertainty of what tomorrow might bring, as well as helping family, friends and clients deal with these issues.
Thank you very much for allowing us to use your tools for free. Much appreciated!
Thank you soo much for this wonderful thoughtful ressource – take care all, v
I’m thankful and grateful for this resource, thank you very much!
Namaste!
Godsend wonderful supportive system of who are suffererd by covid 19.god bless uu.thanks a lot
What a prompt and sudden useful tool!
Thank you so much.
Tienen este pdf en español?
Sincerely thanks so much for wonderful package, you reach me at a time this support is highly needed. As am writing to you one case of corona is official out in my country Tanzania.
Thank you so much for sharing this content. It’s really something we all need amidst chaos and uncertainty. May things get better with time. Amen
Thank you so much for this resource. Much appreciated!
Thank you so much! I’m from Bucharest-Romania and I’m very grateful for this!
Thank you so much for your help to those who need it so badly .
I am definitely going to use it.
Regards
Grateful for this resource. Thank you!
This is a real godsend. I have shared it with my colleagues at Montcalm Area Intermediate Schools. an area with many children of trauma in mid-Michigan and will also be sharing it with Kadima Center in Southfield, Michigan. Kadima is a center for disabled adults. My niece lives there in one of their 22 residential homes. They operate a day program (closed for COBID-19) and offer therapy on-site. I am keeping my balance by looking at the Rogue River and enjoying my kitties. I am also working on a PowerPoint on Resilience- seems like a great area of focus for this perilous time. I am so grateful to be part of the Positive Psychology community. I have a daily meditation practice guided by Calm.com and highly recommend this site.
Thank you for your loving kindness and compassion to everyone! All the information and tools you’ve provided are so greatly appreciated and will be shared.
I had tears in my eyes because of your loving gesture – thank you!
I’m having tears in my eyes as I am going through the comments. I really hope the tools will help to alleviate the pain of those who need it right now!
This is truly fantastic, thank you for your kindness and compassion!
Thank you! This is a wonderful resource and one I will use ASAP as we started remote learning and counseling yesterday.
With gratitude,
Nikki
Great to hear! Please feel free to share the tools with everyone you feel could benefit from them!
Because of the overwhelming amount of traffic and downloads, our server temporarily crashed. This should be all fixed now!
Thanks a lot for the much needed resource, I am planning to use it with my clients
Let me know how it goes Liliana. Curious to hear how the exercises are been received by clients.
A wonderful gesture. Thank you
You’re most welcome!
Thank you so much for the vital tool that will help very many people cope. Please know, this is not taken lightly and very much appreciated.
I really appreciate you saying that Carolyn!
Great resource! Thank you for sharing.
Very thoughtful in this time.
Thank you.
Very helpful resource. Thank you for providing.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you very much! is it allowed to distribute this kit to other psychologists?
Elena
Yes please Elena. Feel free to share this with anyone and everyone who can benefit from it. 🙂
Thank you so much! With some involuntary extra time on our hands, it’s very good to have something like this to explore!
thank you, these are very useful!
Thanks so much Seph, I was just in the process of desigining a resilience programme for the current situation, so perfect timing!
Thank you and take care 🙂
Hi Seph, Thank you for sharing this. Kindly note that I have been trying to download the files, but it is not working at all.
Kindly help with this.
Hi Tarek, could you please try again? We had a temporary server time-out because of the amount of traffic and downloads. This download link should work now: https://positivepsychology.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Crisis-Kit.pdf
Thanks! This will be useful for me & my clients!
Thank you. This is very kind of you to share. 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you for this tool. I appreciate you and your thoughtfulness.
Stay Healthy!
Wonderful. This time presents unique opportunities to be of help, and I am grateful to be part of this community.
So glad you have joined us Jennifer!
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much appreciated
Thank you so much!!!
No time like the present, and no present like Positive Psychology. Thank you all who are part of the Positive initiative. It is need of the hour, in more ways than words can say.
Our pleasure Nomi. Much needed indeed!
Thank you! I have been concerned about people who are struggling, now pushed in to isolation / quarantine, and how best to help.
Thank you very much for this!
Happy to help. I hope these tools will serve as a light in these challenging times!
Thanks for making this available. I have read a number of your exercises and found them to be very helpful. I have not used these with clients yet, but am very impressed with the materials plan to use them with others in the near term.
You’re welcome. We would love to learn about your experiences from working with these tools!
Muchas Gracias! es muy útil para mis pacientes !
This is going to be very helpful for all light-bearers. Thank you so much for sharing, as always!
Thank you so much for this!!!!
Thank you VERY MUCH, Dear Positive Psychology Team!
You’re most welcome 🙂 Take care!
Thank you for setting a wonderful example of helping others.
Thanks
Thank you! Beautiful initiative <3
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This is so kind and helpful.
Thank you so much!
Thank you.
Our pleasure Mihaela! Hope it’s of use.