Resilience Practitioner Training

Would you like to more skilfully deal with difficult times

and help others do this too?

Would you like to strengthen your confidence and credentials

by becoming a certified Resilience Practitioner?

We live at a time of multiple crunches, with many experiencing financial stress, ongoing impacts of the pandemic, struggles with health, energy and mood, organisations in states of collapse, and alarming trends of the climate crisis. These and other challenges highlight the need to make resilience tools more widely available, as research shows they can help reduce the risk of depression, anxiety and stress-related harm, while also strengthening people’s coping capacity when facing adversity. The course is based on a 'thrutopian' approach that can be applied to a range of contexts and system levels in helping us make it through periods of challenge in the best possible way.

This online training is designed for practitioners (including coaches, health and social care professionals, managers, teachers and therapists) who wish to familiarise themselves with evidence-based resilience tools both to use themselves and pass on to those they work with. The course is also suitable for interested members of the public keen to grow their capacity to deal with difficult times and/or take steps in developing a practitioner role supporting others.

"This is one of the best courses I've been on, in terms of both content and process. The content is evidence-based, beautifully presented with memorable pictures and words, and organised in manageable and meaningful 'chunks'."

Mandy Hetherton, Coach and facilitator

This course starts on Tuesday 7th October at 7.30pm UK time, with webinars of 90 minutes each Tuesday for the first seven weeks, then with a practice period and a final review webinar on 27th January 2026. It is recognising by the Association for Coaching for continuing professional development (CPD) and offers a pathway to becoming a certified Resilience Practitioner.

You can see more information about this course at this link.

If you'd prefer the recorded version of this course that you can start at any time, please click on this link.

Dr Chris Johnstone is one of the UK’s leading resilience trainers, with 40 years experience teaching in this field. After a first degree specializing in psychology, he graduated in medicine with distinction in 1986. For many years he ran a groupwork programme in the UK mental health service teaching resilience skills, while also pioneering resilience training in the workplace, in coaching and in adult education. His books include Active Hope (co-authored with Joanna Macy, published in 18 languages) and Seven Ways To Build Resilience. His online trainings have attracted students from 78 countries.

Supporting Chris in this course is Madeleine Young. Madeleine lives on a narrowboat and looks after rescue horses. Her work includes: facilitating Active Hope and The Work That Reconnects; training facilitators; Complementary Therapy, and Climb Coaching and Instruction. Madeleine and Chris have worked as a team developing a range of trainings at CollegeOfWellbeing.com