Life is full of ups ad downs and your capacity to cope is often challenged. When the pressure is on and you have to deal with life’s big bumps, you have to find a way to dig deep into your resiliency reserve and your memory bank of times when you successfully coped before. The purpose of this course is to focus on how to cope resiliently, develop your personal capacity for resilience while practicing and applying techniques you can reliably use to build or recover your capacity to bounce back. By the end of the course students will be able to: Identify what coping strategies will improve their resiliency; Identify external stressors and skillfully respond with resiliency building strategies; Determine ways to silent any negative internal messages; and set goals and action plans to implement new coping strategies into everyday life.