Thursday, April 24, 2025
2:00 – 3:30 pm ET

A Comprehensive Model To Help Students Overcome Obstacles & Persist

As Counseling Centers are hard pressed to meet the demands of today’s students’ mental health needs, teaching students resilience skills preemptively has become imperative. The Resilience-Informed Skills Education (RISE) program developed at Pepperdine provides the necessary coaching and support for students to persist on campus.

Gather your colleagues from across campus and join us on April 24, 2025, when our expert presenters will share how you can develop a resilience coaching program for your campus. They will walk you through how to recruit and train peer, faculty and staff resilience coaches to support an 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 their successful and 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 embodying and living out their purposes. 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 create and maintain a campus-wide 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.
• 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 resilience.
• 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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