Fall Seminar Series: Resilience and Grit

To provide the WVU Health Sciences community with a personal development toolkit, the Chancellor’s Office will continue its fall seminar series with a discussion on “Resilience & Grit” Wednesday, Oct. 5 at noon in Health Sciences Center North Room G119A and via Zoom.

 

The series, open to all WVU Health Sciences students, faculty and staff, is designed to enable our community to navigate life, create purpose, make connections and increase overall well-being.

 

“Resilience & Grit” will include a brief presentation followed by a discussion centered on Angela Duckworth’s New York Times bestseller “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.” In the book, Duckworth shares insights from her research found grit—a combination of passion and perseverance for a singularly important goal—is the hallmark of high achievers.

 

Discussion panelists include Dr. Clay Marsh, Renée Nicholson, M.F.A., and Sam Zizzi, Ed.D.

 

Nicholson splits her artistic pursuits between writing and dance with scholarship in narrative medicine. She is associate professor and director of the Humanities Center and of the programs for multi- and interdisciplinary studies at WVU. Her books include two collections of poetry, a memoir-in-essays and the anthology “Bodies of Truth: Personal Narratives on Illness, Disability, and Medicine.”

 

Zizzi is the Dr. Pat Fehl Endowed Professor at the College of Applied Human Sciences. He also serves as co-director of the Center for ActiveWV and is active in the Be Wild, Be Wonderful, Be Healthy project, a joint initiative between WVU and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help reduce obesity and other chronic illnesses related to long-term unhealthy lifestyles.

 

A reception with light refreshments will follow each presentation and panel discussion.