Professional Skills: Personal Resilience

Arizona State University's beginner course reframes challenges as openings for growth. Its angle is optimism and mindfulness applied to everyday professional life, rather than a clinical approach to stress.

Core ideas

• Optimism and positivity treated as skills to practise
• Mindfulness and self-awareness as tools for handling setbacks
• Habit formation and proactivity as ways to build resilience over time

Fit for

Working professionals who want a skills-based introduction to bouncing back from setbacks. The course also lists productivity, advocacy and communication among its skills, so it reaches past personal wellbeing into day-to-day working life.