Resilience Program

Resilience is a valuable skill to learn and practice every day. It helps us manage challenges, adapt to struggles, recover, and grow. Our instructor-led resilience training for organizations and businesses provides your workforce with evidence-based, practical skills to manage stress, recover faster, stay rooted in purpose, and improve their well-being as they navigate our changing environments.

The Resilience Program is not therapy; it is designed to be therapeutic. Participants leave with real skills, not just insight.

What we teach – Five Pillars of Trainable Resilience

Menu of Services

Flexible formats - each teaches the concept and builds the skill.

  • One, 60-75 minute class on any of the five pillars. Concept taught and skill practived in the room.

  • One, 60-75 minute session presenting all five pillars. Ideal for organizations.

  • Full curriculum, one pillar per week, each session builds on the last. Sessions are one hour per week.

  • Immersive three hour training covering 2-3 pillars with practice, reflection and team application.

  • Complete, resilience experience. All five pillars, experiential exercises, team intergration. Full, six hour, day.

If you have questions or would like more information and pricing, please contact Paula Stephens, Resilience Instructor at 720.248.4599.

Paula Stephens, Resiliency Instructor.
Paula Stephens, Resiliency Instructor.

About the Instructor

Paula Stephens, M.A.

  • M.A. Exercise Physiology.

  • Trained in mindfulness, wellness & somatic practice.

  • 2025 NJHSA Innovation Exchange Winner.

  • Current member of the JFS Wellness Committee.

  • Ordained Zen Buddhist Chaplain.

The Resilience Program curriculum was designed and developed by Paula Stephens. The sequencing, framework, and delivery model are original work — built on evidence-based research and shaped by Paula's unique training and lived practice.

The SSR Model — Safe · Seen · Resourced

The Resilience Program is taught in groups — by design. Shared experience is part of the curriculum. Paula's facilitation creates a container where participants feel safe, seen, and resourced. This reconnects people to why they do this hard work — and feeling seen helps employees feel valued.

Past Participants

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Boulder Food Rescue
Spring Institute

  • This was a supportive course that has reinforced old tools and given me new ones to communicate kindly and effectively. I believe it brought my team closer together and will make us stronger as a group.

  • The topics were relevant to my experience at work and home and provided me with guidance and tools to give me more agency and confidence.

  • This has helped me learn that I have a lot to work on and while it’s opened up a lot of things for me I can now heal and continue to learn to have self-compassion.

  • Very useful practical holistic tools to support you at work and your personal life!

  • Paula Stephens was kind, delightful and incredibly inviting. Would take other classes offered by her.

The Resilience Program began as Abby’s Impact: Realizing Resilience for individuals aged 18-26 to build skills to facilitate resiliency. The program enabled vulnerable young adults to build coping and problem-solving skills to handle life’s challenges and reduce the likelihood of outcomes such as depression, anxiety, or substance abuse.

As community needs have grown. A new opportunity has emerged to serve more participants through workforce and group training.