Name: The Fundamentals of Resilience
Rating: 4.5 (768 reviews)

Udemy Business

Teach on Udemy

Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.

Learn More

Your cart is empty.

Keep shopping

Created byNatacha Trobbiani, Robin Hills

Last updated 11/2025

English

What you'll learn

Examine ways to enhance your personal, social, and occupational well-being through the recognition and development of resilience.
Describe how you can build and develop your resilience in practical ways based upon your resilience protective factors.
Discover strategies and opportunities to develop your resilience in your personal, family and at work.
Identify the risk factors that affect the development of a resilient personality.
Explore and apply effective resources to strengthen your development of resilience.

Course content

5 sections • 43 lectures • 2h 3m total length

Introduction to the Course2:13
In this lesson you will be introduced to the course with a brief welcome message.
Being Emotionally Intelligent about this Course on Udemy4:35
This video is critical to watch as it provides valuable insights to help you get the most from this course on the Udemy platform. It also helps address any potential criticisms and negative reactions through the application of emotional intelligence.
The Fundamentals of Resilience3:10
This lecture covers the fundamental principles of resilience and why resilience is an important consideration in our lives.
Coping Techniques to Manage Stress and Develop Resilience4:52
This video explores practical methods to manage stress, develop resilience and support emotional wellbeing.
What is Resilience?3:23
This lesson introduces the concept of resilience; what it is and its importance for help us to achieve success in life.
Characteristics of Resilience2:45
In this lesson we explore the key characteristics of resilience to determine what resilience is and what it is not.
Activity Booklet: Reflections on Resilience0:28
This practical activity poses some important questions for you to think about with regards to resilience.
Part of resilience is about setting goals, so this activity gets you to set yourself goals around taking this course.

How Resilience is Formed3:42
This video looks at the three components that are all involved in the formation of resilience.
Life's Crises and Critical Situations3:41
In this video we investigate the crises that are experienced in life that lead to us developing our resilience. These can be evolutionary or accidental crises.
Factors That Influence Resilience2:21
This lesson explores the factors influencing the development of resilience. These can be internal or external and can be protective factors or risk factors.
The Seven Internal Protective Factors That Build Resilience1:56
In this lesson you will begin to recognize what are the protective and risk factors for the development of resilience and how to begin to identify them with examples
Motivation and Resilience2:57
Whilst there is an internal component to motivation, it is not considered to be a component of resilience due to individual variability and the influence of external factors.
Activity Booklet: Resilience Influencing Factors0:31
This practical activity will help you to gain a better understanding of some of the factors that influence the development of their resilience.
You are asked to think about a specific person to consider what is influencing them and their resilience.
Quiz: Test your Knowledge of Resilience
Case Study: Resilience Protective Factors

Thinking and Resilience3:49
Our thinking influences our emotions and our behaviour. This video explores how our thinking can make us more resilient.
Resilient Affirmations Based on "I Have", "I Am" and "I Can"4:00
In this lesson we will consider the resilient attributes from the Approach Model based on the work of child psychologist Edith Groteberg. This will help you to recognise and acknowledge your resilient attributes and how to have more confidence in them within the workplace.
Activity Booklet: Your Resilience in Critical Events0:35
This practical activity encourages you to reflect on your experiences around recent critical events - crises - and to determine what your thoughts, feelings and actions tell you about your resilience.
The Internal Protective Factor Emotional Regulation3:59
Emotional regulation is the ability to stay calm under pressure. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience.
Developing Your Emotional Regulation4:40
When you can become aware of what you are feeling and notice what you are thinking you can determine how the two are interconnected and becomes the first step in regulating your emotions.
The Internal Protective Factor Impulse Control2:33
Emotional regulation is the ability to shut out distractions and keep actions under control. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience.
Thinking Traps3:21
This lesson investigates how our thinking traps can influence our impulsive reactions to events so that we can resist the thinking trap and resist the urge.
The Internal Protective Factor Causal Analysis4:21
Causal analysis is the ability to accurately identify the causes of a problem. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience.
Identifying Your Why? Style3:04
Life's tough. How do you explain it to yourself? This lesson helps you to explore some of your thinking habits and to identify your Why? Style of thinking - why things happen the way that they do.
The Internal Protective Factor Self-Efficacy4:13
Activity Booklet: Defining your Life Goals0:35
This is a practical activity that helps you to define what your ideal world or lifestyle will be three years from today. The structured activity enables you to determine what goals you should put in place in a timely manner to achieve those outcomes that you are looking for. This will help you to gain a better understanding of your guiding principles that support your self-efficacy.
The Internal Protective Factor Realistic Optimism4:00
Realistic optimism is the belief that things can change for the better and the belief in being able to take control. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience.
The Types of Thought That Drive Positive Action1:57
This lesson explores the thinking that leads to pleasant emotions conducive to change and how these drive positive action.
The Internal Protective Factor Empathy5:29
Empathy is the ability to read cues to other's emotional and psychological state. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience.
Empathy and Beliefs - Diving Deeper1:25
Our beliefs can have positive and negative effects on us. This lesson helps you to decide whether your beliefs are serving you well or whether you should consider losing some of them.
Activity Booklet: Examining Your Beliefs0:27
This is a practical activity that helps you to determine your underlying beliefs so that you can anticipate how they interfere with your ability to accurately perceive the emotions and motivations of others.
The Internal Protective Factor Reaching Out5:35
Reaching out is the ability to seek out new opportunities, challenges and relationships. This lesson considers how this protective factor is involved in developing resilience and offers some ways of reaching out to new opportunities, challenges and relationships.
Case Study: Evaluating Protective Factors and Risk Factors.

Wellbeing, Emotional Regulation and Impulse Control2:39
This lesson is looking how the internal protective factors of emotional regulation and impulse control help with mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing and Realistic Optimism1:49
This lesson explores how the internal protective factor of realistic optimism helps with mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing and Causal Analysis2:25
This lesson explores how the internal protective factor of causal analysis helps with mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing and Empathy1:51
This lesson explores how the internal protective factor of empathy helps with mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing and Reaching Out1:56
This lesson explores how the internal protective factor of reaching out helps with mental health and wellbeing.
Wellbeing and Self-Efficacy2:30
This lesson explores how the internal protective factor of self-efficacy helps with mental health and wellbeing. This internal factor is well supported when all the other internal protective factors combine and blend together.
10 Tips For Managing Workplace Stress4:50
This lesson investigates some methods for managing stress in the workplace and so improve your mental health and wellbeing.
Case Study: Strengthening Mental Health in the Workplace

Keeping Things in Perspective2:31
This lesson encourages you to look at ways of keeping things in perspective so that you can manage events with greater insights and with greater resilience.
The Importance of Resilience as AI Advances4:33
This lecture explores how resilience empowers individuals and organisations to adapt, thrive, and maintain human-centred values in an AI-driven future.
Activity Booklet: Three Good Things1:24
This is a practical activity to conclude the course. It requires you to consider your goals and objectives for taking the course that you set for yourself at the beginning of the course.
Working On Your Resilience2:14
This video concludes the course and offers you hints and tips that will help you to work on your resilience.
Further Reading - Books and Articles on Resilience0:04
Here is a list of books and articles that were used in developing the course.
Bonus Lecture3:54

Requirements

You should have an interest and understanding of resilience but no prior knowledge and experience is needed to benefit from the course.
You should be keen to learn techniques to understand ways to develop resilience as a contribution to your business success.
You should have a willingness to complete the practical activities to grow and develop your skills in working with your resilience.

Description

Relentless change and volatility. Escalating expectations. Changing roles, values and cultures. Limited resources. Increasing complexity. Economic uncertainty.

The world has always been a challenging place. Many of us are trying to cope with face paced and unpredictable change. The only thing that we can be certain about change - it's not going to stop.

People with good levels of resilience perform well despite ceaseless challenges and high stress. They have tenacity, are adaptive, collaborative, and innovative. They have the ability to focus on and achieve their goals, even in the face of adversity.

If you are reading this, it is probably because you have heard a lot about resilience or know a little bit about it but you are keen to find out more.

You may want to learn how to develop your wellbeing and personal growth using scientifically research tools.

You may find yourself having difficulties in managing challenging situations, which impact upon you affecting your work performance and affect the important relationships in your family and social life.

You may be leading and managing teams of people continually working under pressure and who look to you to help them to with their mental health and stress.

Welcome to the resilience course that you've been looking for.

This course has been designed to help you to learn about the fundamentals of resilience and to provide you with practical tools that you can apply immediately to create positive change in your life.

There is no universal panacea. Each human being is unique and faces challenges that are individual to them, so the course focuses on building your resilience by working on your exclusive set of strengths and skills and your internal protective factors that underpin your resilience.

Not only will you strengthen your mental health and wellbeing, you will be able to help others and form more robust relationships.

With this in mind, you will have to rise to the challenge of working with the practical activities provided and working with the strategies outlined within the course.

The course also investigates the ways that the internal factors work to protect your mental health and wellbeing and ways to support these in your work environment.

The course is based on many years of scientific research and knowledge but, most importantly, it is a course focused on practical application and includes 3 case studies to highlight this.

No previous knowledge is required for you to benefit from the course. You will be considering ways to apply the knowledge in your daily life.

The course "Fundamentals of Resilience" has been collaboratively designed and produced by

Robin Hills - an emotional intelligence coach, trainer and facilitator with experience of working with leaders and managers across and range of global organisations, and with 30 courses on the Udemy platform.

Natacha Trobbiani - a clinical and occupational psychologist with experience of working in the area of mental health using psychoanalysis, psychotherapies, educational and personnel selection tools.

By completing this course you will be able to:

Examine ways to enhance your personal, social, and occupational well-being through the recognition and development of resilience
Describe how you can build and develop your resilience in practical ways based upon your resilience protective factors
Discover strategies and opportunities to develop your resilience in your personal, family and at work
Identify the risk factors that affect the development of a resilient personality
Explore and apply effective resources to strengthen the development of your resilience
Relate your learning to your experiences with resources and practical tools to work to become more resilient at critical times

What will you get from taking this course?

Short, sharp, snappy lectures covering the fundamentals of resilience
Practical activities that encourage you to explore your resilience and ways that you can develop it in your unique situation
Quizzes to test your knowledge and learning
Case studies that give you further insights into resilience and what it means in everyday life
Access to instructors to help you with any specific questions

All PDFs can be completed online and are Section 508 / ADA Accessibility compliant.

All videos are High Definition recorded in 1080p.

All videos have grammatically correct English and Spanish captions.

Updated - November 2025

Who this course is for:

Anyone interested in enhancing their personal productivity, based on the development of resilient aspects in their personality
Anyone working in teams operating in stressful or prevailing circumstances that are volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA).
For managers, leaders, parents, teachers, health educators who wish to enhance their personal and professional capabilities and promote the development of mental health in their environment
Managers and employees within organisations that need to enhance their resilience or those who work for them to increase their productivity.

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Introduction to the Course - The Fundamentals of Resilience7 lectures • 21min

Resilience: The Factors that Influence your Resilience6 lectures • 15min

The Protective Factors of Resilience17 lectures • 54min

The Influence of Internal Protective Factors on Health and Wellbeing7 lectures • 18min

Concluding the Course6 lectures • 15min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: