• • Two days (9:00 – 4:00) including practice, critique, activities, resource previews
  • A 120-page Training Manual with presentation outlines
    • 20 Overhead Originals
    • Handout Originals to copy
    • Resiliency Articles to copy use for training
  • A computer disk with the Overhead/Handout Originals and Powerpoint Presentation

Your trainer, Nan Henderson, M.S.W., Ph. D., is the co-founder and president of Resiliency In Action, a publishing and training company in Southern California. Her publications on resiliency and wellness, positive youth development, and school and organizational change are used in more than 25 countries and have been translated into Spanish and Russian. She has provided training in 45 U.S. states and several foreign countries over the past 14 years for a wide variety of audiences and organizations, including Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Upward Bound, Americorps, State Departments of Education in California, Vermont, Colorado, Texas, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania (where her model is being used in schools statewide), and the U.S. Military, as well as national conferences in New Zealand and Australia. She has served on the faculty of five colleges/universities; worked as a clinical therapist with youth, adults, and families; and directed citywide and statewide programs. She is the author of five books on resiliency, numerous articles, and an on-line newsletter distributed worldwide. She has also been featured as a “resiliency expert” on National Public Radio.

The Training Content

1. The research on resiliency:
   Where does it come from?
   How does resiliency happen?
2. Practical, specific ways to help children, youth, families and organizations overcome all adversities
3. The NEW research connecting resiliency to academic achievement!
4. How to effectively identify and teach resiliency
5. Successful resiliency-building programs in schools, communities & organizations
6. How resiliency helps solve staff/resource shortage issues