Resilience - Bouncing Back from Life's Challenges - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	13 January - 10 February 2026
Sessions	Tuesdays: 1pm - 3pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £40

About this course

This course is designed to help you adopt a growth mindset to transform obstacles into opportunities for growth. Grounded in mindfulness and Meditation principles, you will develop tools to shift perspectives, embrace challenges, and nurture your resilience. What will be covered on the course?

Understanding a growth mindset: Fixed vs. growth mindset. Connecting a growth mindset with resilience and spirituality.

Activities: Tutor Boundry setting Meditation and reflection exercises. Reframing challenges through a growth lens. Meditation practices that support Perseverance.

Activities: Group discussions and Tutor led Empowerment meditation. Valuing effort as a path to mastery and resilience. Mindfulness practices for staying focused on the journey.

Activities: Developing personal affirmations and Tutor led Affirmations Meditation. Viewing feedback and failures as tools for improvement. Spiritual principles of humility and Acceptance.

Activities: Growth Mindset Meditation and creating a growth mantra. Building a mindset rooted in gratitude and optimism. Mindfulness practices to foster Hope.

Activities: Gratitude journaling and tutor led Gratitude meditation. Planning for long-term application of a growth mindset. Celebrating progress and reflections on Growth.

Activities: Vision board creation, Goal setting Meditation and sharing next steps.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course? Define the principles of a growth mindset and resilience and Outline how this can help your own lifestyle. Explain the connections between resilience and personal growth. Estimating how this will reshape your life in a positive way. Practice reframing challenges to embrace opportunities for growth as skills for life. Reflect on personal experiences of effort and perseverance and calculate movement forward for confidence. Assess own progress and response to feedback measuring progress to aid a positive mindset.. Develop a personalized plan for cultivating a growth mindset.Leading a more Resilient lifestyle.

What you will need to bring to the course:

A pen, paper and a drink

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014