DOVETAIL LEARNING INC
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Mission Statement
Mission: Strengthening resilience in adults, youth, and children Vision: A world of kind, connected human beings
About This Cause
Dovetail Learning is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping adults and children become their best selves through fostering emotional resilience internally, in their relationships, and within their communities. Our resilience superpower influences all aspects of our wellbeing and our experience of life itself. When we feel vulnerable, it helps us find a way to safety. Intentionally applying our resilience skills helps us be in charge of our wellbeing, rather than the victims of circumstances or other people. When we intentionally apply resilient mindsets, notice our thought patterns and behaviors, and strengthen our resilience skills, we can create more of the life we want. Even though we don’t have control over many things that impact our lives (our environment, upbringing, and life’s difficulties), we thrive when we intentionally tap into our inner capacity for resilience. Stronger resilience brings us home to ourselves, so we have the courage and skills to change the things that matter. Just as important, resilience helps us attend to the challenges beyond ourselves—in our families, communities, and world. We can learn how to make inner changes that transform our relationships. We can think more clearly and be more intentional in our choices and interactions. Being resilient helps us be effective so we can contribute to creating a world of kind, connected human beings. Our level of resilience affects us and everyone around us tremendously. When we act in less resilient ways, we cause harm to our loved ones, friends, neighbors, clients, patients, associates, employers, employees, and ourselves. When we act more resiliently, we support not only the wellbeing of ourselves but also our family, neighborhood, workplace, and, ultimately, the wellbeing and safety of our community (local to global). At its core, resilience strengthens us, it makes us better people, and helps us to serve others and our communities. Dovetail Learning's We Are Resilient™ approach provides simple, effective, and research-based skills that help healthcare providers, first responders, educators, family support organizations, families, and others cope with stress and learn to thrive. Users learn how to strengthen resilience skills that help us Center ourselves, Connect with others, and Collaborate as teams/groups. Effective use of Resilience Skills includes awareness of our Cultural Patterns — which inform how we view the world— and our Protective Patterns — which inform how we react to the world. Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Patterns: We are gifted and limited by the beliefs, patterns, and behaviors that we inherit through multi-generational transmission. We learn values, kindness, and the meaning of family and community from our Cultural Patterns. We also learn the power dynamics of the isms of racism, sexism, genderism, ageism, and others. These systemic and institutionalized ways of seeing life are deeply limiting by definition. The We Are Resilient™ approach helps us identify and better understand beliefs and attitudes that are harmful to ourselves, our relationships, and our communities. Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Through an ACEs Aware grant from the state of California, Dovetail trained healthcare professionals throughout the state in this approach to great demand. We are also bringing this approach to educational professionals, for whom Dovetail has more than 10 years of experience training educators in social and emotional learning programs. Through social and emotional learning and resilience coaching, We Are Resilient™ improves teacher wellbeing, student mental health, school and classroom climate, student connectedness online and in-person, and connectedness and engagement with families. It facilitates staff engagement and support to provide professional learning in a virtual setting and the development of positive school culture and climate. As mental health support, We Are Resilient™ can reduce student and teacher isolation and loneliness and the burden on counselors. As a direct service to teachers, it mitigates burnout and prevents negativity. Dovetail Learning can help schools and districts develop and implement systems, structures, and procedures aligned with the We Are Resilient Approach to support student and staff success. We Are Resilient™ is also available to parents/caregivers to support family resilience. Early childhood development and teen development are deeply enhanced by adult resilience. Training, coaching, and resources: We Are Resilient™ includes training and curriculum to build and strengthen resilience in all of us. Through online and in-person coaching and training, we guide the use of this approach for adults and their work. We also provide open educational curricular resources, both digital resources and physical print resources. Please see our website for further information. We Are Resilient™ is available as an Open Education Resource (OER) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It can be customized to different situations and is free, shareable, and available to all who need it. Our strategy is to facilitate institutional change by putting people first, giving them practical social and emotional skills for growth and connection, and honoring their own stories of trauma and resilience. We Are Resilient™ helps organizations to become healing centers for their workforce as well as their students, patients, families, and employees. We look forward to learning from your use of this work and request to receive your creative contributions in alignment with our highest values exhibited in our OER license.