The HardiTraining^® Program
Community and four-year colleges typically offer HardiTraining® Program as two courses that students take for credit. The first HardiTraining® course teaches students to think about problems in a way that channels these into new avenues of learning, which then makes them easier to solve. Course material, exercises, and case studies help students to think about personal and professional problems in ways that strengthen their HardiAttitudes™. Training strengthens:

• The belief that they are important and worthwhile enough to fully engage in work task and a social community (commitment)
  
• The belief that through effort they can develop resources that help them to constructively influence much of what happens to them (control) and,
  
• The belief that stresses of any kind, when managed effectively, are opportunities for renewal, and enhanced performance, morale, conduct, and health (challenge)
  

HardiAttitudes™ moreover, motivate a student's HardiCoping™ efforts, which lead to constructive experiences that help them to problem solve. Course One does not end there. Students who feel connected to the academic environment in a meaningful way are much more apt to perform well, and to graduate from school. HardiSocial Support™ provides students with very specific information and skill-set that helps them to develop a social network that encourages and assists them in their professional and personal development.

In HardiTraining™ Course Two students learn self-care habits, such as relaxation and nutrition that supports their ability to feel, think, behave, and perform well. A specific knowledge set, self-care resources, and case studies deepen students' understanding as to the relationship between physiological well being, and motivation and performance.

Schools use our HardiSurveyIII-R® questionnaire along with other academic performance criteria to assess student retention grade point average, and general satisfaction.  (See our HardiSurvey® Assessment Link). Our Internet based HardiSurvey™ generates a report that estimates a student's stress vulnerability, stress resistance resources, and Performance Effectiveness. This composite index pinpoints how strong students' HardiAttitudes™, HardiCoping™, and HardiSocial Support™ need to be if they are to perform well, and to graduate from school.

The HardiTraining^® Train-the-Trainer Program for Schools


Today several universities and colleges offer HardiTraining® to their students. Student success, academic enrichment, and trio support departments often bring HardiTraining® to their learning institutions. Initially, schools use HardiTraining® for their at risk population. Very quickly however, they offer HardiTraining® to students at large when they see how their students benefit from this training. Even when compared to other student development programs offered by the institution, outcome studies show HardiTraining® excels at increasing retention, grade point average, and student satisfaction.

A two-stage training process certifies a teacher to become a Hardiness Trainer (CHT). The first step is 3 to 4 consecutive days training.  Comprehensive trainer materials and presentation slides thoroughly train teachers in our approach. Teachers go through training themselves with the benefit of trainer notes that comprehensively outline the Hardiness approach to Performance, Leadership, and Health enhancement,  theoretical and practice assumptions that underlie student workbooks and course material, empirical support for our training approach, and vital teaching tips that help to make HardiTraining® a success at their school.

We continue to consult with our trainers, and if desired, help to evaluate the effectiveness of our program at your school, because we deeply care about the quality of our program, that students get the most out of our training, and that CHT trainers throughout the country get the assistance and encouragement they need to continue in their important efforts.

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