Practice Thriving and Resilience: Skill 6: Broaden and build interdependent and supportive relationships within community

Each MCD Relationship Competency identifies 6 Skills, along with specific practices for learning each. For more context about MCD Relationship Competency 9: Thriving & Resilience, see Skill 1: Describe events using neutral observations, Skill 2: Meet both positive and negative events with equanimity, Skill 3: Take action to nourish emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual needs on a consistent daily or weekly basis, Skill 4: Express 5 positives to every one negative, and Skill 5: Engage in activities that provide meaning, purpose, and care for others.

Skill 6: Broaden and build interdependent and supportive relationships within community

Human beings thrive in community. From the most basic physiological regulation to the most profound spiritual communion we are meant to support each other. Over and over again research reveals what we already know in our hearts— that when we are accompanied, we find resilience in the most difficult challenges. A traumatic event that is met with supportive community transforms into healing, growth, and a whole new level of capacity.

Practice 

Take a moment to name who makes up your supportive community.  Community might include animals, trees, water, grasses, etc. as well as humans.