COURSE RCA

Resilience Coaching for Stress and Burnout

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Resilience is about developing the awareness and practices that keep us motivated, replenished, and hopeful that we can live well and thrive – it’s not about powering through, enduring or coping with life. A resilience coaching approach will help your clients make better choices, build new habits, and build a life that fulfills, fits and fuels them.

Course Overview

Stress, overwhelm, exhaustion, and burnout are among the most common challenges clients bring to coaching today. While traditional coaching often focuses on goals and performance, clients experiencing chronic stress require a different approach, one that recognizes depleted capacity before pursuing change.

This highly interactive virtual course equips coaches with a practical, evidence-informed framework to confidently support clients experiencing chronic stress and burnout. Participants will explore the science of stress, resilience, behaviour change, self-leadership, and sustainable recovery while learning coaching strategies that can be applied immediately with clients.

Each live session combines brief teaching with experiential learning, reflection, coaching demonstrations, collaborative discussions, and practical application. Participants are encouraged to apply each week's learning to both their own lives and their coaching practice.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain the physiology of chronic stress and burnout.
  2. Stress, burnout and nervous system overload.
  3. Recognize stress and burnout patterns and warning signs.
  4. Apply a resilience-focused coaching framework.
  5. Adapt coaching conversations for depleted clients.
  6. Help clients recover and rebuild capacity before pursuing performance.
  7. Coach behaviour change using practical, sustainable strategies.
  8. Learn about mindset and the power of sustainable small changes
  9. Integrate self-leadership into resilience coaching.
  10. Protect their own wellbeing while coaching others.
  11. Connect learning with core competencies.
  12. Confidently coach clients toward long-term resilience and thriving.

Course Format

Duration: 10 weeks

Delivery: Live online (2 hours weekly)

Independent Learning: Approximately 2 hours per week

Every Session Includes

  • Brief interactive teaching
  • Coaching demonstrations
  • Individual reflection
  • Small-group breakout discussions
  • Real client case studies
  • Practical coaching exercises
  • Whole-group debriefs
  • Weekly implementation challenge
  • Questions and coaching clinic

Learning Philosophy

This course is built on the belief that meaningful learning happens through experience, reflection, discussion, and practice rather than lectures alone.

Participants will leave with practical coaching tools, increased confidence, and immediately applicable strategies to help clients move from chronic stress and burnout toward greater resilience, capacity, wellbeing, and sustainable thriving.


Frequency: This course is offered once a year.


Required Materials:

The price listed on this page is $1045, which includes tuition ($1000) plus the cost for the course manual ($45). You will be prompted to add the manual to your cart during the registration process.

Course Prerequisites

20 hours of coach training or enrollment in Foundational course

Testimonials

Catherine allowed everyone to participate and gave us time to address all possible outcomes for the class. The course manual contains useful information and strategies that I can use as a reference. She was patient, knowledgeable, and very willing to answer many questions.

- C.L.