Resilience Coaches – On-Demand Training

Create a Comprehensive Model to Help Students Overcome Obstacles and Persist on Campus

With the escalation of student mental health concerns and crises on college campuses, university staff and administrators can often feel overwhelmed by the needs of their students. As Counseling Centers may struggle to meet the demands, it’s imperative that institutions proactively teach students resilience skills. The Resilience-Informed Skills Education (RISE) program developed at Pepperdine provides the necessary coaching and support for students to persist on campus.

Our expert presenters will share how they recruit and train peer, faculty and staff resilience coaches to support their innovative and comprehensive resilience education program. They will provide data driven, practical, real-world solutions and approaches to teaching resilience skills to your students through a comprehensive coaching program. 

Explore creative ways you can incorporate resilience coaching into your institution’s mission to remove obstacles that stand in the way of your students’ success. You’ll be able to adapt these practical approaches to student development to your specific campus’ needs and increase student satisfaction and completion rates.

Topics Covered

Gain crucial, actionable takeaways that will help you:

• Understand the key components needed to foster a campus-wide peer, faculty and staff resilience coaching program, including recruitment, selection, training and pairing with mentees.
• Analyze the latest data on escalating mental health trends to provide the necessary coaching resources to meet the demand on your campus so students don’t fall through the cracks.
• Review the process of RISE Coaching and how the program’s six dimensions of resilience serve as the core curriculum for RISE coaching.
• Be better prepared to teach the necessary skills, behaviors and concepts that will allow your coaches to support their mentees in developing resiliency.
• Identify next steps to create or modify your current resilience coaching programs to better meet the needs of your campus community.

Presenters

Stacey Lee Gobir currently serves as the Director of the Resilience-Informed Skills Education (RISE) Program within Student Affairs at Pepperdine University located in Malibu California.
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Sergio Gallardo Palma serves as the Associate Director of the Resilience-Informed Skills Education (RISE) Program within Student Affairs at Pepperdine University located in Malibu California.
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