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Resiliency Facilitator Certification Program

Step One:

  1. To be admitted to The Resiliency Center's facilitator certification program, applicants must read The Resiliency Advantage, by Al Siebert and complete most of the learning activities at the end of each chapter. It is recommended that applicants read The Survivor Personality, and purchase and do the activities in the audiotape/CD "Resiliency Learning Course."
     
  2. Applicants must provide evidence that they:
    1. can verbalize their understanding of human resiliency,
    2. are resilient themselves, by providing one or two personal examples, and
    3. are skilled at coaching and/or leading personal/professional growth workshops.

The steps for accomplishing these requirements include that applicants write answers to the following questions:

  1. What does "resiliency" mean to you? Do you believe resiliency can be learned? Why are resiliency strengths important in today's world?
  2. In what ways do you identify with resiliency? In what ways is being resilient an important aspect of your self-concept?
  3. Describe the worst difficulty you've been through, explain how you got through it, and describe how it has affected you.
  4. Take the resiliency self-assessment "How Resilient Are You?" and write comments about the items and your score.
  5. What personal development activities in The Resiliency Advantage were most meaningful to you?
  6. Describe several of your most rewarding experiences as a workshop leader and/or personal coach. What are your reliable strengths as a personal coach or workshop leader? How do you explain why the phrase "resiliency facilitator" is used instead of "resiliency trainer"?
  7. Why do you want to be certified as a resiliency facilitator? Write about how this learning opportunity fits with your values, life purposes, and professional goals.
Send your answers and evidence of the above to Al Siebert, PhD, at The Resiliency Center, PO Box 535, Portland, OR 97207-0535, USA

Step Two:

If your application is accepted, you will be contacted and asked to pay the certification fee. After the fee is received, we will have a personal phone call to discuss your application, goals, and the next steps.

Step Three:

We can then proceed in two ways:

Option A:

  1. Most optimal is to arrange for Al Siebert to do a workshop that you and other enrolled applicants attend as participants. A pre-workshop meeting will be held to discuss issues and principles related to facilitating resiliency.
  2. After the workshop we will discuss your reactions, questions, and observations.
  3. Each applicant will receive original copies of copyrighted resiliency workshop handouts and a basic PowerPoint file. Copies of the resiliency booklet and/or The Resiliency Advantage can be purchased for workshop use at a deep discount.
  4. Applicants will arrange for and conduct their own resiliency workshop. Written evaluations must be collected. Copies of the class evaluations will be given to Al Siebert and used during a private discussion of how well the class went. Depending on the evaluations, and how well the applicant demonstrates mastery at facilitating resiliency, the applicant may or may not be asked to arrange for and conduct a second resiliency workshop.
  5. Upon successful completion of the preliminary materials and a resiliency workshop. The Resiliency Center will issue a personalized Resiliency Facilitator Certificate.

Option B:

The second option is to conduct the certification process by telephone and e-mail. The enrolled applicant will be sent a videotape of Al Siebert conducting a workshop and a DVD of his television interviews. After viewing the videotape and DVD, your reactions, questions, and observations will be discussed during a telephone call. Then the same process described above from number 3 on will be followed.)

Each resiliency facilitator will be invited to join the exclusive Resiliency Center Facilitator network.

e-mail:
phone: 503-289-3295

Al Siebert has studied highly resilient survivors for over thirty years. He is author of the new book The Resiliency Advantage: Master Change, Thrive Under Pressure and Bounce Back From Setbacks, andThe Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too.

Al Siebert is available for workshops, keynotes and coaching. Contact Al!

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