
Thriving in the New Normal
​Thriving in the New Normal is a series of 4 online workshops using games, role plays, and scenarios to help people engage with each other and the material. These workshops were designed to be accessible and relatable for everyone dealing with the challenges of the New Normal.
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This class is offered free as a gratitude offering to our community in Spanish and English, online or in person.
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Module One: Mourning the Old Normal
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Regular activities curtailed or non-existent
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Socialization can now include dread and guilt
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Loneliness and isolation vs connection and engagement
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Module Two: Shifting to a Virtual Life​
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Setting boundaries and achieving work-life balance
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Avoiding time wasters and catastrophizing websites
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Dividing up devices, bandwidth, and attention
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Module Three: Surmounting the Technology Learning Curve
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Overcoming Frustration
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Acknowledging capacity
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Asking for help
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Achieving competence
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Module Four: Stress Busters in the New Normal
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Small Powerful Practices
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Mindfulness
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Finding sanctuary in your own home
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The Power of Humor
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Integrating new strategies
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3Rs: Resources and Resilience for Readiness
Our 3Rs Program is a two- (or even three-) generation whole-family approach designed to improve the socio-economic, physical, and emotional well-being of mothers, grandmothers, and children in order to break the cycle of generational poverty.
To help support families moving from poverty to opportunity, our program uses a two-pronged approach. First, it addresses the skills needed by children entering school for the first time with a kindergarten readiness curriculum. Additionally, the program serves people who have been out of the workforce as a result of having been engaged in full-time childcare. As the children enter school, that frees up their caretakers to enter or reenter the job market.
Our Kindergarten Readiness program teaches the children basic math, reading, and fine motor skills needed to prepare them for the first year of school. Parents also receive training and resources to support their child’s learning and encourage active engagement with the school community throughout their child’s educational years. Discussions of cultural and academic standards, and workplace norms of behavior level the playing field, giving our participants a head start on their educational and career journeys.
Our Workforce Training and Development program addresses numerous skills parents need to successfully enter the workforce and get ahead in order to better support their families. Using a holistic approach, parents learn to identify and manage aspects of their home and work lives to become gainfully employed and advance in the workplace with a goal of improving the well being of their immediate families and generations to come.
HPI’s mission is to provide leadership, communication, and other foundational skills training to historically and culturally excluded populations to empower them to reach their economic and social goals. This project directly supports this mission by reaching rural and minority people in Alabama, one of the country’s poorest states, to begin to move towards self-sufficiency and self-support.