Resilience for Work and Home Life - Stapleford Library and Learning Centre - Adult Learning

What is the outline of the course? (Please give a brief introduction to your course – this should be a short paragraph that will be appealing to learners – this should be written as if it is the learner reading it [e.g. YOU will….])

This course helps you build practical resilience skills you can use in everyday life. You will explore how to stay steady under pressure, set healthy boundaries, and approach challenges with confidence. Through discussions, reflective activities, and real‑life scenarios, you’ll strengthen your adaptability, communication, and emotional resilience. By the end of the course, you’ll have a toolkit of strategies to support your wellbeing at work and at home.

Progression routes include Mindset for Success and Growth Mindset.

You will learn:

• What Is Resilience? Understanding resilience, everyday examples, recognising strengths.

• Coping Strategies - practical tools for managing stress, reframing challenges, and staying steady.

• Boundaries & Emotional Strength Identifying limits, communicating needs, and protecting emotional wellbeing.

• Problem‑Solving Under Pressure Structured approaches, decision‑making, responding vs reacting.

• Your Personal Resilience Plan - bringing everything together, a practical, personalised toolkit.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Describe what resilience is and explain why it matters in everyday life.

• Apply simple coping strategies to manage stress and challenging situations.

• Analyse your personal boundaries and identify where emotional strain builds.

• Evaluate different problem‑solving approaches and choose effective responses under pressure.

• Create a personalised resilience plan to support your wellbeing at work and home.

• Demonstrate adaptability by using resilience strategies to adjust to workplace challenges.

• Use self‑management techniques to stay calm, organised, and effective under pressure.

Please bring:

Pen & Paper for notes or your journal.

Bottle of Water.

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

• Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

or

• Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

•    Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
•    Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

• Greater London Authority
•    North East Combined Authority
•    South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
•    Tees Valley Combined Authority
•    West Midlands Combined Authority
•    West of England Combined Authority
•    West Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
•    York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
•    Hull and East Yorkshire
•    Greater Lincolnshire
•    Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
•    Cornwall Council
•    Lancashire Combined County Authority
•    Buckinghamshire

• Warwickshire

• Surrey

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

• Your visa must last until after your course ends.

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.

• You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.