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Resilience Skills: Coping with Stress, Change, and Setbacks
Practical tools to recover, adapt, and move forward
Created byDr. Ronél le Roux, Dr. Rina De Klerk-Weyer
Last updated 1/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Understand what resilience is and how to apply it when facing stress, change, and adversity.
- Recognise their personal stressors and use practical strategies to cope with stress more effectively.
- Recover more quickly from setbacks, disappointments, and difficult experiences with greater self-compassion.
- Respond to challenges with greater emotional balance, rather than feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
- Understand worry and anxiety, and recognise early signs before they escalate into panic.
- Apply practical tools to manage worry, reducing the risk of ongoing anxiety or panic reactions.
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Course content
2 sections • 8 lectures • 1h 30m total length
Requirements
- They will have to be able to have good internet to be able to look at the videos and print the workbook. Students need to have the willingness to learn about their own resilience and their ability to cope with stress, worry, fear, anxiety and panic.
Description
Learn how to bounce back, cope better, and move forward with strength
Life doesn’t always go as planned, does it? Disappointments, stress, change, and uncertainty are part of being human. Resilience is the skill that helps you recover, adapt, and keep going — without becoming overwhelmed or stuck.
This course teaches you how to respond to challenges with greater emotional balance, clarity, and inner strength. Resilience does not mean ignoring pain or “being strong all the time”. It means learning how to cope, let go, and grow through difficult experiences.
Why resilience matters
Many people are intelligent and capable, yet still struggle with:
stress and emotional overwhelm
disappointments and setbacks
anxiety, worry, or panic
conflict and difficult changes.
Resilience is a learnable life skill that helps you deal with these challenges in a healthier and more constructive way — both personally and professionally.
In this course, we explore:
What resilience really is and how it works in everyday life
The emotional and thinking stages people go through during setbacks and change
How to cope with disappointment and learn to let go
The key characteristics of resilient people
Practical ways to strengthen your own resilience for life
We also focus on:
Understanding stress and how it affects your wellbeing
Identifying your personal stress levels and stressors
Recognising the impact of stress on your health and functioning
In the final part of the course, we discuss:
Worry, anxiety, and panic — and how they develop
The difference between anxiety and panic
Practical ways to cope with worry and panic attacks
About the facilitators
This course is presented by Dr Ronél le Roux and Dr Rina de Klerk-Weyer, both with Ph.D. degrees and many years of experience in private practice.
We focus on preventative life skills — teaching tools that can be used before and during difficult times, not only afterwards. Our approach is practical, supportive, and grounded in real-life experience.
Building resilience can help you:
cope better with stress and uncertainty
recover more quickly from setbacks
feel more emotionally balanced and confident
improve relationships and communication
face challenges with greater flexibility and hope
Resilience supports both mental and physical wellbeing, helping you navigate life with more strength and stability.
A skill you can use for life.
Resilience is not something you either have or don’t have — it is something you can develop and strengthen over time.
This course offers you practical tools and insight to help you cope better, grow stronger, and move forward with greater confidence.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who wants to cope better with stress, change, and life’s challenges, and build emotional strength over time. It is especially helpful for learners who: feel overwhelmed by stress, uncertainty, or constant pressure, struggle to recover after setbacks, disappointments, or difficult changes, experience worry, anxiety, or emotional exhaustion, want healthier ways to deal with challenges instead of shutting down or pushing through. This course is also suitable for learners who: want to build resilience as an important life skill, are interested in personal growth and emotional wellbeing, want practical tools they can use in everyday life, work, or studies. You do not need to be strong, positive, or “resilient already” to take this course. All you need is a willingness to learn, reflect, and develop new ways of coping. This course meets you where you are and supports you step by step as you build resilience in a realistic, practical, and compassionate way.