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Books, Courses and Certifications

Build resilience skills that
transform how people work

Every IWS course and certification is grounded in Joyce Odidison’s research, the WIS®RQ nine-dimensional framework, and nearly 30 years of organizational practice. Start with one dimension. Advance into certification. Scale across your organization.

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Featured Course

Start with the book
that started a movement

Resilience Dimension Courses

Start with the dimension
that needs strengthening first

Each course is built from one of the nine resilience dimensions, giving learners a focused, actionable entry point into their resilience development without committing to a full program.

01

Building Mental Resilience

Strengthen thinking patterns, emotional steadiness, stress response, and the capacity to make better decisions under sustained pressure.

02

Building Social Resilience

Improve connection, belonging, collaboration, and social support so people and teams stop carrying pressure alone.

03

Building Spiritual Resilience Anchors

Reconnect with purpose, values, identity, meaning, and the deeper anchors that help people stay grounded through difficulty and change.

04

Building Interpersonal Resilience

Build communication, healthy boundaries, conflict capacity, trust, and the relational habits that preserve resilience within teams and relationships.

Additional dimension courses covering Physical, Emotional, Financial, Occupational, and Environmental Resilience are available. Request the full catalogue.

Professional Courses and Certifications

Each aligned with a book,
a framework, or the WIS®RQ platform

These courses and certifications are designed for professionals, coaches, HR leaders, and organizational practitioners who want to apply the WIS®RQ framework in their own context.

Certification Based on: WIS®RQ METHOD and Coaching Interpersonal Skills and Wellness Competencies

Wellness Coach Certification

Train coaches and practitioners to apply the WIS®RQ wellness competency framework in coaching, facilitation, and client transformation. The foundational certification for anyone who wants to do the work Joyce does with clients.

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Certification Based on: Relational Leadership and the WIS®RQ framework

Resilient Relational Leader™ Certification

Develop leaders who can lead through pressure, conflict, uncertainty, and change with coaching skills, psychological safety tools, and relational leadership practices grounded in the WIS®RQ nine-dimensional model.

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Program Based on: Cracking the Code on Your Resilience and the Resilience Deficit framework

Cracking the Code on Your Resilience Program

Help leaders and employees identify burnout patterns, resilience depletion, and the hidden stressors draining performance and well-being before they escalate into claims, absences, or team breakdown.

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Program Based on: Employee Respect and Resilience and the interpersonal dimension

Employee Respect and Resilience Program

Build respect, accountability, self-awareness, inclusion, psychological safety, workplace civility, and interpersonal effectiveness across teams and organizations through structured, evidence-based development.

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Certification Based on: WIS®RQ platform and Cracking the Code on Your Resilience

Cracking the Code on Your Resilience Certification

Prepare coaches, HR professionals, and organizational practitioners to understand, apply, and deliver the WIS®RQ resilience intelligence framework inside their own practice or organization.

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Conflict Transformation Based on: Hurt, Upset, Angry, Frustrated? and Pre-Mediation Coaching

Conflict Clarity™

A professional conflict transformation course for leaders, coaches, HR practitioners, and mediators who need practical frameworks for moving through workplace conflict with clarity and steadiness. The personal version of this course lives at JoyceOdidison.com.

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Scale Across Your Organization

These courses and certifications are also
available as enterprise programs

Every course in this catalogue can be deployed as a team program, leadership development cohort, or organizational initiative. Tell us what your workforce is facing and we will recommend the best combination of pathways.

Not sure where to start?
Start with the assessment.

The free Resilience Deficit Discovery gives you a clear picture of where resilience is breaking down before you invest in any course or program.

Begin Your WIS®RQ Resilience Experience
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