Upcoming - Fall Resilience Circles

Build Resilience Without Burning Out — 8-Session Peer Cohort for Care Professionals/Volunteers

What Are Resilience Circles?

Resilience Circles are small, facilitated learning groups designed for people in professional or volunteer caregiving and support roles—health and social services, education, community work, chaplaincy, nonprofit programs, and similar fields. Based in the Social Sciences, particularly Psychology and Biology, participants grow in self-awareness and ability to manage stress.

The Circles offer practical tools, peer connection, and support in finding a sustainable rhythm for work that is often complex, emotional, and demanding.

What You’ll Practice

• Increasing your daily resilience using various theories as formation tools

• Understanding your own patterns, triggers, and history through self-reflection and group dynamics

• Managing stress and nervous-system load in real time

• Setting boundaries, clarifying roles, and improving team dynamics

• Skills for difficult conversations and conflict navigation

• Reflective practice and feedback that builds trust (without blame)

• Creating a realistic plan for rest and recovery that fits your role and workload

How They Work

• One 2.75-hour live session see above dates

• Offered online, in-person, or hybrid

• Up to 12 participants for emotional safety and meaningful depth

• Open-enrollment cohorts . Intact groups can also apply, e.g staff or ministerials

• Structured facilitation + guided reflection + peer learning for formation not merely information

• Certificate of completion available

• Cost: CA $800 (invoice/receipt provided). Early registration by August 11, $750.

• Required Workbook: CA $49 directly from the Center for Transforming Engagement

Who It’s For

Care professionals, frontline leaders, volunteers with regular exposure to stress, complexity, and human need—such as active or retired social workers, case managers, nurses, educators, clergy, program staff, coordinators, team leads or nonprofit volunteers.

These Circles also work exceptionally well for existing (intact) groups (e.g., ministerial groups, professional peer groups, staff teams, boards) who want shared support and learning. Session times and frequency can be arranged to fit your group’s schedule.

What They’re Not

Resilience Circles are not therapy or a crisis response. Recognising that we live in stressful times that are often out of our control, we nevertheless learn how to manage our own stress reactions to both external and internal stressors.

The Circles are structured small-group learning experiences that strengthen how we work, lead, and recover.

Next Steps

If you still have questions, please express your interest below, and if you are ready to register, please click that button