‘Failure week’ at top girls’ school to build resilience

A top girls’ school is planning a “failure week” to teach pupils to embrace risk, build resilience and learn from their mistakes.

There will be workshops, assemblies, and activities for the girls, with parents and tutors joining in with tales of their own failures. There will be YouTube clips of famous and successful people who have failed along the way and moved on. The emphasis will be discussions on the merits of failure and on the negative side of trying too hard not to fail.

via Dr Moran-Mansfield    photo via flickr:CC|johnpaulgoguen