Earn your Resilience Coach Micro-Credential
Develop practical resilience coaching skills that can be applied in a wide range of personal, community, and workplace settings.
Building on the Brain Story Certification from the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative, the Resilience Coach Certificate program helps translate the science of brain development, resilience, and well-being into practical, easy-to-understand strategies that can be used in everyday life.
Explore how skills, capacity, life experiences, and context influence the way people think, learn, act, and respond to challenges. Through an evidence-informed approach, participants learn coaching tools and strategies that support resilience, strengthen relationships, encourage growth, and help individuals navigate change with greater confidence. These skills can be used to support others in everyday interactions, leadership roles, helping professions, and community-based work.
There are 2 parts that make up the Resilience Coach Certificate program, offered in-person at Medicine Hat Campus.
- Part 1: Introduction to the Core Story of Brain Development
- Part 2: Resilience Coach - Skills
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Understand how brain development, relationships, life experiences, and environment influence lifelong health and well-being
- Recognize how early experiences, both positive and adverse, can affect learning, behaviour, resilience, and development
- Explain key Brain Story concepts and apply them to real-life situations and professional practice
- Explore how genetics, experiences, and relationships can influence addiction, recovery, and overall well-being
- Identify ways to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors for individuals, families, and communities
- Apply Brain Story principles to support positive outcomes in personal, community, and workplace settings
- Reflect on personal values, beliefs, and experiences and understand how they influence professional practice
- Recognize the role of power in relationships and use strategies that promote safety, respect, and collaboration
- Apply trauma-informed approaches that support prevention, intervention, recovery, and resilience
- Understand the importance of diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality when working with individuals and communities
- Recognize stages of crisis and use strategies to prevent, de-escalate, and respond effectively to challenging situations
- Strengthen communication skills to support positive, respectful, and non-violent interactions
- Explore practical approaches to supporting addiction intervention, recovery, and long-term well-being
- Use resilience-focused coaching tools and strategies to support growth, learning, and positive change
Tuition: $1700 + GST
No additional learning materials required.
To earn the Resilience Coach Micro-credential, students must complete both Part 1 & 2 of the program with an average of at least 50%.