Build the tools to prepare for adversity, navigate the storm, and move forward with hope.
Continuing Education
$400.00
Includes 10 video lessons, all course materials, and 10 continuing education credit hours with certificate.
Contact the School of Adult Education for group pricing or payment arrangements.
Life brings challenges that test us all — and resilience is the skill that determines how well we prepare for, move through, and grow beyond them. This course gives you a practical, faith-informed framework for building resilience in yourself and the people you serve.
Whether you’re a coach, counselor, ministry leader, or someone looking to add resilience tools to your personal toolkit, this course meets you where you are. Across 10 video lessons, you’ll develop skills that apply to professional practice, personal growth, and everyday leadership.
You’ll walk away with a clear three-phase approach to resilience: strengthening your readiness before adversity strikes, navigating with clarity and confidence during the storm, and looking forward afterward with hope and future expectancy. These aren’t abstract concepts — they’re practical tools you can apply immediately in your own life and in your work with others.
This course is built around three phases of resilience — giving you tools for before, during, and after life's most challenging moments.
Phase 1: Readiness Before Adversity
Build the habits, mindset, and spiritual foundations that strengthen your capacity to face challenges before they arrive — so you're prepared, not blindsided.
Phase 2: Navigating the Storm
Gain practical tools for staying grounded, thinking clearly, and making wise decisions in the middle of crisis, stress, and uncertainty.
Phase 3: Hope & Future Expectancy
Learn how to move forward after adversity with renewed purpose, turning hardship into growth and looking ahead with confident, faith-rooted hope.
Resilience Coaching Frameworks
Explore proven coaching models and techniques for building resilience — tools you can use with clients, in ministry, or in your own personal development.
Stress Response & Recovery
Understand how stress intensifies during adversity and learn evidence-based strategies for managing its physical, emotional, and spiritual effects.
Applying Resilience Across Life's Arenas
Practice applying resilience principles to real-world scenarios — from career setbacks and relational conflict to loss, transition, and leadership challenges.
This course is for anyone who wants to build resilience — whether for personal growth or to help others navigate life's toughest moments.
Licensed clinicians: this course offers 10 continuing education hours. CEU acceptance for license renewal varies by board and state — please confirm with your licensing board before enrolling. See the disclaimer below for details.
This course's three-phase resilience framework is faith-informed — grounding readiness, navigation, and hope in more than technique.
Hope as More Than Optimism
The course's third phase — Hope & Future Expectancy — treats hope not as wishful positivity but as confident, faith-rooted expectancy. That distinction changes how resilience is built and sustained over the long haul.
Equips you to help others move forward with grounded hope, not just coping strategies.
Spiritual Foundations for Readiness
The readiness phase builds spiritual foundations alongside habits and mindset — recognizing that resilience is strengthened by what we anchor our lives to before adversity strikes."
Prepares you to coach resilience as whole-person formation, not just skill-building.
Stewarding Adversity
A faith-informed view treats hardship as something that can be redeemed and grown through, not merely survived. The course frames adversity as an arena where growth and purpose are genuinely possible."
Grounds your coaching in the conviction that hardship can become growth.
The tools you build here apply immediately — in professional coaching practice, ministry, leadership, and your own life.
Coach Resilience in Others
Use proven frameworks and techniques to build resilience with clients, congregants, teams, or mentees.
Lead Through Crisis
Stay grounded and make wise decisions in the middle of stress and uncertainty — and help others do the same.
Manage Stress and Recovery
Apply evidence-based strategies for managing the physical, emotional, and spiritual effects of stress.
Apply Resilience Across Arenas
Bring resilience principles to career setbacks, relational conflict, loss, transition, and leadership challenges.
A Clear Three-Phase Framework
Readiness before, navigation during, and hope after adversity — a structure you can apply immediately and teach to others.
10 CE Hours + Certificate
Earn 10 continuing education hours and a certificate of completion.
Built for Practitioners and Individuals Alike
Useful whether you coach professionally, lead in ministry or business, or are building your own resilience.
Practical, Not Abstract
Every concept comes with tools you can apply right away in your life and your work with others.
Enroll today and begin your first lesson this Monday.
This is a self-paced online course you can begin any week.
Register and Pay
Complete registration and the $400 continuing education fee.
Get Course Access
Receive access to all 10 video lessons and course materials. New cohorts begin every Monday.
Work Through the Three Phases
Move through the ten lessons at your own pace, building tools for before, during, and after adversity.
Earn Your CE Hours and Certificate
Complete the course to receive your 10 continuing education hours and certificate of completion.
The School of Adult Education is happy to help with enrollment, group pricing, or payment arrangements.
Continuing education credit hours are offered for professional and ministry development. Acceptance of these hours toward a specific professional license (including LPC, LCSW, LMFT, and coaching credentials) varies by licensing or certifying board and state. Please confirm acceptance with your board before enrolling. This course is educational and is not a substitute for professional mental-health treatment. Course content, pricing, and availability are subject to change. No academic credit or degree is awarded for this continuing education course.