Welcome back to our Nurturing Hope blog series, where we dive into each of the 7 steps of nurturing Hope, why it is important, and how it changes students’ lives. Today, we are going to dive into the final step: Re-Goal Setting.
Why is re-goal setting necessary?
“Hope is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today, and that you have the power to make it so.” In our initial blog about Step 2: Goal Setting, we talked about how to know what ‘better’ looks like for the student, we need to help them define what they want to accomplish by setting a goal.
When we establish what ‘better’ looks like, we need to recognize that this will change as a student grows. The first goal we help the student set is important, but it is only one of many. Throughout our lives, we set many goals as we mature, changes occur, and our desires shift to become more personally defined to who we are as individuals. Re-goal setting within the safety of Hope work and My Best Me shows the student early on that gaining new goals is healthy and expected in life, promoting long-term growth.
Benefits Over Time
Goal setting can happen multiple times and should. As life changes, so do we, and we need to be able to adjust to that change. By re-goal setting multiple times with the student, they are learning when it’s time to make new goal, why, and how. Re-goal setting becomes second nature, and they learn that goal setting is a way to adapt to life as it changes.
One of the best benefits of re-goal setting is that it shows students the strategies they learn in My Best Me can be reapplied in multiple situations throughout their lives. What they learn in Hope work is equally applicable to today as it is tomorrow, and re-goal setting helps students understand that.
Acknowledging & Accepting Change
As children grow, their goals grow with them, and we need to help them learn to re-goal set for consistently helpful strategies that help them be successful throughout their lives. Social-Emotional Learning is about helping students today and better preparing them for the future. With steps like re-goal setting, we help the student see that change is constant in life and we demonstrate how to accept that change and succeed with it.
What’s Next in the Series?
Thank you for joining us as we walked through the 7 steps of nurturing Hope. Join us next time for our conclusion to the series, tying it all together and showing the statistics on how Hope work and My Best Me tangibly changes student lives.
If you’re trying to catch up, be sure to check out Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, Step 4 , Step 5, and Step 6.
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