YOUR ESSENTIAL RESILIENCE GUIDE
The Currency of Resilience
Your guide to building, investing, and spending your resilience wisely — across nine dimensions that shape everything.
IDENTIFY
Where strain is accumulating across your life
UNDERSTAND
How the 9 dimensions shape your capacity
ACT
Translate insight into daily resilience deposits
BUILD
Sustainable resilience that compounds over time
WELCOME TO YOUR RESILIENCE ECONOMY
Welcome to Your Resilience Economy
What if resilience wasn’t just a trait you either have or don’t, but a currency you can earn, save, invest, and spend strategically across nine essential dimensions of your life?
The Currency of Resilience™ framework, built on the WIS® Well-being Intelligence System, transforms resilience from an abstract concept into a tangible system you can actively manage. Because most workplace challenges are not performance problems—they are resilience problems hidden inside relationships, systems, and leadership pressure.
This guide introduces the framework, walks you through the nine resilience dimensions, and shows you how small, consistent deposits compound into lasting capacity—for yourself and everyone you lead
THE GLOBAL RESILIENCE DEFICIT
The Global Resilience Deficit
Recent Gallup research reveals a staggering truth: we’ve seen a 300% increase in resilience-related challenges over the
last five years. This isn’t just a statistic—it’s a crisis playing out in real time across workplaces, teams, and communities
worldwide.
The global resilience deficit shows up everywhere—increased substance use to cope with daily life, rising rates of mental illness, widespread burnout and depression, inability to hold meaningful conversations, shortened attention spans, profound disconnection from ourselves and others, loneliness, and communication breakdowns that fracture relationships and communities
Resilience is a system, not a trait. It ebbs and flows as our energy and focus changes across all nine dimensions. We can’t think our way out of burnout when our bodies are depleted. We can’t build strong relationships when our emotional reserves are empty. Early insight prevents costly escalation.
This guide gives you the framework to start with yourself, then ripple outward to everyone you influence.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND WIS®
The Science Behind WIS®
The WIS® Well-being Intelligence System is a science-based framework grounded in interpersonal neurobiology and systems thinking. It measures how mental, emotional, relational, and occupational factors interact under pressure, allowing resilience to be mapped, strengthened, and sustained across individuals, teams, and organizations.
Meet The Founder
Founder & President, Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc
M.A., MCC, CTDP
Conflict Analyst • Resilience Pioneer • Creator of the Currency of Resilience Framework™
For nearly three decades, Joyce has helped organizations and professionals navigate stress, conflict, and burnout. A severe burnout episode in 2015, where she collapsed mid-flight, became the turning point that led her to design a science-backed system to detect and prevent burnout before collapse.
From that work came the Well-being Intelligence System® (WIS®) and the WIS® Resilience Diagnostic, now used internationally. Joyce is known for helping leaders identify and resolve the hidden stressors that undermine team capacity long before burnout, conflict, or costly setbacks occur. She is Creator of the Currency of Resilience Framework™ and the WIS® Resilience Mapping Platform, providing a groundbreaking HRTech solution that transforms scattered wellness efforts into clear, actionable resilience data and leader-ready plans.
Joyce has trained and certified coaches and wellness professionals since 2006, authored seven books, and founded the Global Workplace Wellness Summit. Her expertise has been featured on CTV Morning Show, CityTV, CBC Radio, Fast Company, and leading podcasts.
THE 9 RESILIENCE DIMENSIONS
The 9 Resilience Dimensions
Just as financial wealth is distributed across different accounts, your resilience is stored in nine interconnected dimensions. Each serves a different purpose, and all work together to create your overall capacity for handling life’s challenges.
Physical Reserves
What it is: Your body’s energy, health, and vitality—your biological foundation.
Deposits: Quality sleep (7–9 hours), nutritious food, regular movement, stress recovery, preventive care
Withdrawals: Illness, poor sleep, chronic stress, inadequate nutrition, overexertion
ROI: Strong physical reserves multiply the effectiveness of all other dimensions
Emotional Capital
What it is: Your ability to process, regulate, and recover from emotional experiences.
Deposits: Emotional awareness, joy cultivation, grief processing, therapy, celebration, gratitude, emotional wellness cleansing
Withdrawals: Suppressed emotions, emotional labour, unprocessed trauma, compassion fatigue, simmering anger, resentment, fear and
worry
ROI: High emotional capital creates faster recovery times and deeper self-awareness
Intellectual Bandwidth
What it is: Your cognitive resources, learning capacity, and mental agility.
Deposits: Learning new skills, reading, puzzles, creative thinking, cognitive rest, curiosity, critical thinking, education, good decision-making
Withdrawals: Decision fatigue, information overload, mental stagnation, constant multitasking, endless social media scrolling
ROI: Strong intellectual capacity enables better problem-solving and adaptability
Social Wealth
What it is: Your connection to community, sense of belonging, and social support network.
Deposits: Community involvement, group activities, shared experiences, collective purpose, good family relationships, care, compassion, empathy
Withdrawals: Social isolation, toxic group dynamics, tribalism, lack of community connection
ROI: Strong social wealth provides collective resources and shared resilience
Interpersonal Assets
What it is: The quality and depth of your one-on-one relationships and interpersonal skills.
Deposits: Quality time with loved ones, deep conversations, active listening, vulnerability, repair, teamwork, collaboration
Withdrawals: Unresolved conflicts, poor boundaries, communication breakdowns, betrayal, low self-autonomy
ROI: Strong interpersonal assets create your closest safety net and deepest fulfillment
Spiritual Foundation
What it is: Your sense of meaning, purpose, and connection to something beyond yourself.
Deposits: Purpose-aligned activities, values clarification, practices of awe, meditation, service, gratitude, positive beliefs, hope and faith
Withdrawals: Meaningless activity, values conflicts, existential drift, cynicism, disconnection, lack of vision
ROI: Strong spiritual foundation provides the ‘why’ that sustains you through hardship
Occupational Vitality
What it is: Your work satisfaction, career purpose, and professional growth capacity.
Deposits: Meaningful work, skill development, work-life boundaries, career alignment, recognition, good leadership
Withdrawals: Burnout, meaningless tasks, toxic work culture, stagnation, overwork
ROI: Strong occupational vitality turns work from draining to energizing
Financial Security
What it is: Your monetary resources, financial stability, and economic stress level.
Deposits: Emergency savings, debt reduction, income growth, financial literacy, wise investments, long-term planning
Withdrawals: Debt, financial uncertainty, overspending, lack of planning, economic shocks
ROI: Financial security reduces baseline stress and expands your options during crisis
Environmental Harmony
What it is: Your physical surroundings, connection to nature, social responsibility, inclusion, and respect.
Deposits: Nature time, organized spaces, natural light, clean air/water, sustainable living, inclusive to others
Withdrawals: Clutter, pollution, nature deficit, chaotic spaces, environmental degradation, racism, exclusion
ROI: Environmental harmony creates constant background support across all other dimensions
The Interconnection Effect: These nine dimensions don’t operate in isolation. Financial stress impacts physical health. Poor physical health drains emotional capital. When you strengthen one dimension, there is often an immediate strengthening of all the others—which is why balanced investment across all nine creates true resilience wealth.
THE COMPOUND EFFECT
The Compound Effect of Resilience
Here’s the powerful truth about resilience currency: small, consistent deposits compound over time. A 1% improvement across multiple dimensions creates exponential growth in your overall capacity.
The 90-Day Transformation
Awareness
Become conscious of where you’re spending resilience unnecessarily. This awareness alone reduces waste by 10–20%
Stabilization
Your lowest dimensions begin to stabilize. You’ll notice you’re less reactive and recover faster from daily stressors
Growth
New habits take root. Positive spillover effects —strengthening one dimension naturally supports others.
Integration
Resilience becomes automatic. You naturally make deposits and avoid unnecessary withdrawals.
DIMENSION SYNERGIES
Some dimension combinations multiply each other’s effects:
Physical + Emotional: Exercise releases emotions; emotional processing improves sleep
Financial + Occupational: Career growth improves finances; financial security reduces work stress
Intellectual + Occupational: Learning enhances career; meaningful work stimulates learning
Social + Interpersonal: Community creates relationship opportunities; deep relationships enrich community
Environmental + Spiritual: Nature connection deepens meaning; spiritual practice increases environmental care
Strategic tip: Invest in paired dimensions simultaneously for accelerated results.
TAKE THE NEXT STEP
The WIS® Resilience Intelligence Platform™
This guide gave you a snapshot. Now discover the complete picture with the WIS® Resilience Intelligence Platform™—a decision-support platform for human resilience. This is not another wellness app. It’s a system that helps leaders measure accurately, identify risk early, take targeted action, and track progress over time.
Measure. Map. Transform.
Create Your Profile
Set up your free profile and receive your unique access link.
Complete Your Diagnostic
Answer reflective, science-backed questions (15–20 min) and see your Resilience Index.
Unlock Your Roadmap
Access personalized insights, strategies, and expert support to strengthen your resilience.
YOUR PATH FORWARD
Your Path Forward
Whether you’re an individual looking to strengthen your personal resilience, a leader seeking to support your team, or an organization ready to transform your approach to workplace wellness—we have a pathway designed for you.
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Take the Free Resilience Index
Create your free profile at WISResilience.com and complete your first dimensional assessment. See where your resilience is strong, where it’s leaking, and what to adjust.
FOR FOR TEAMS & LEADERS
Start with 30-Day Team Resilience Mapping™
Gain clarity on what is driving strain across your team. Our diagnostic-driven approach reveals what engagement surveys and traditional tools miss—so you can act with confidence.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Join the Currency of Resilience Exchange™
Experience our approach through monthly coaching calls, resilience intelligence insights, and a community of practice for HR leaders, executives, and teams navigating complexity.
FOR COACHES & CONSULTANTS
Become a Certified Resilience Catalyst™
Train and certify as a Resilience Catalyst—a professional who guides others through stress, conflict, and burnout. Bring the WIS® framework into your practice.
Start small. Stay consistent. Measure your progress. Watch your reserves compound.
You’ve got this. And you don’t have to do it alone.
Joyce Odidison, M.A., MCC, CTDP
President, Interpersonal Wellness Services Inc.
Creator, Well-being Intelligence System® & Currency of Resilience Framework™
