Resilience Courses

Strengthening Empathy and Resilience

Build empathy through perspective-taking and emotional understanding while developing resilience, self-compassion, and recovery strategies for challenging interactions.

• CodeSignal
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Trust Building and Resilience Development

Learn how to build trust and resilience within your workplace in this course.

• OpenLearning
• 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Hillary Rodham Clinton Teaches The Power Of Resilience

The former U.S. senator and secretary of state is teaching the values, lessons, and practical tools that help her rise above, even sharing her never-before-heard 2016 presidential victory speech.

• MasterClass
• 3 hours 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Career Certificate

Climate Change Leadership for Community Resilience

39 ratings at Coursera

Examine climate science evidence, emissions drivers, and future projections, then apply leadership ethics, design thinking, and inclusive team-building to mobilize equity-centered, community-based climate solutions.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives

742 ratings at Coursera

How do children overcome hazardous experiences to succeed in life? What can be done to protect young people at risk from trauma, war, disasters, and other adversities? Learn about the importance of fostering resilience in children at risk.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mental Health and Resilience for Healthcare Workers

526 ratings at Coursera

Learn strategies that help healthcare workers manage anxiety, counter burnout, and build resilience, using gratitude practices, supportive environments, and the psychology behind each intervention.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Resilience for Everyone

273 ratings at Coursera

Build resilience: manage stress and time, develop grit and a growth mindset, practice positive self-talk and mindfulness, and show empathy when listening and leading.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

Career Certificate

Professional Skills: Emotional Intelligence and Resilience

9 ratings at Coursera

Build emotional intelligence and resilience: practice applied empathy, grit and growth mindset, proactive stress and time management, and goal setting for high-pressure work.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Professional Skills: Personal Resilience

Reshape negative self-talk, practice mindfulness techniques, and build workplace autonomy to strengthen realistic optimism, emotional regulation, and personal resilience.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Climate Justice: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Adaptation

Explore how community-driven, historically informed climate adaptation—from seawalls to managed retreat—can reduce vulnerability or reproduce displacement and inequality.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Mindfulness and Resilience to Stress at Work

23 ratings at edX

Learn research-based strategies to help you foster mindfulness, handle stress, and guard against burnout.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Climate Resilience and Urban Sustainability

15 ratings at Coursera

Analyze urban heat, flood risk, and sprawl through case studies, and apply New Urbanism, Smart Growth, and an equity lens to make cities more resilient.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Resilience Engineering and Leadership in Crisis

9 ratings at Coursera

Lead through cascading infrastructure failures: apply resilience frameworks, assessment tools, and methods to socio-technical systems using cases like COVID-19, industrial accidents, and climate change.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Resilience & Leadership: Concepts, Definitions, & Frameworks

Learn resilience engineering and crisis management frameworks: Hollnagel's four cornerstones, normal accident theory, DHS critical infrastructure policy, and a hazard and threat assessment protocol.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Resilience & Leadership: Tools, Methods, & Applications

Assess the resilience of a complex system and create a crisis management plan using systems thinking, SWOT analysis, the Resilience Analysis Grid, and crisis communication.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course