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About the content
Discover how to build resilience skills to empower your life and career
In a fast-paced world facing complex global challenges, resilience skills are no longer desirable – they’re crucial.
Having a high level of professional and emotional resilience enables you to thrive in the face of stressful situations at work, and in life in general.
On this course, you’ll learn what resilience is. You’ll explore the capabilities, skills, and self-care practices that contribute to building resilience. You will develop resilience skills for yourself, so you’re ready to meet both professional and personal challenges.
This course is proudly Certified for Professional Development by CPD UK.
Prerequisite
This course is designed for anyone looking to enhance their career or skillset by learning how to build resilience.
This online resilience training course would be useful for people working in or aiming to work in high-pressure environments.
Syllabus
What topics will you cover?
- Overview of resilience and why it’s important
- Steps to becoming more resilient
- Building resilient capabilities and skills
- Building resilient self-care practices
- Building resilient values and engagement
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Define and explain resilience
- Apply resilience frameworks to your professional career
- Create your own personal resilience plan
Instructors
Marcus O'Donnell
Director, Cloud Learning Futures at Deakin. He has worked in the media & health industries, & his research includes digital learning, contemplative pedagogies, & student resilience.
Warren Summers
Warren is a psychotherapist, communications manager, community worker, and long-term Zen Buddhist practitioner. His work explores the interactions between narrative, social justice, and well being.
Content Designer
Deakin University is an Australian public university with approximately 50,644 higher education students in 2014. Established in 1974, the University was named after the leader of the Australian federation movement and the nation's second Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin. It has campuses in Geelong, Warrnambool and Burwood, Melbourne and learning centres in Dandenong, Craigieburn and Werribee, all in the state of Victoria. It was formally established in 1974 with the passage of the Deakin University Act 1974.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
