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Forward10-7-2025 Resilience and Thriving: The Secret Power of Stress
The Resilience & Thriving: The Secret Power of Stress course provides easy-to-use and practical skills for identifying and reducing stress at home and work. Participants learn: to identify early and later warning signs of poor coping, and ways to address or get help; to identify lifestyle and coping-style strengths; how to create ongoing goals for addressing stress; how to use stress as a positive resource for resilience and thriving; and mind-body tools for adapting a positive mind-set in the face of stress.
Participants receive an 8-page workbook with exercises.
“Resilience & Thriving: The Secret Power of Stress” was designed by Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems and is an adaptation of Module 4 (Stress, Problem Solving and You) from the Team Awareness curriculum, originally developed at the Institute of Behavioral Research (The Workplace Project), under NIH grant. It has been acknowledged by the U.S. Surgeon General, the National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices (NREPP), and the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness. © 2018, National Wellness Institute and Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems”
Target Audience
RNs / SW / Health Coaches / Paramedics / EMTs/ CCM
Learning Objectives
Identify early and later warning signs of poor coping, and ways to address or get help and identify lifestyle and coping-style strengths
Create ongoing goals for addressing stress and learn how to use stress as a positive resource for resilience and thriving
Learn mind-body tools for adapting a positive mind-set in the face of stress.
Start/End time and brief description of content covered for each objective in the presentation | ||
Time | Brief Description of Content | Presenter Name |
9:00am-9:30 | Identify early and later warning signs of poor coping, and ways to address or get help and identify lifestyle and coping-style strengths. | Amanda Gabarda EdD, MPH, NBC-HWC & Renee Greenwald MS, NBC-HWC |
9:30am-10:30am | Create ongoing goals for addressing stress and learn how to use stress as a positive resource for resilience and thriving. | Amanda Gabarda EdD, MPH, NBC-HWC & Renee Greenwald MS, NBC-HWC |
10:30am-11am | Learn mind-body tools for adapting a positive mind-set in the face of stress. | Amanda Gabarda EdD, MPH, NBC-HWC & Renee Greenwald MS, NBC-HWC |
Amanda Gabarda, EdD, MPH, NBC-HWC
Renee Greenwald, MS, NBC-HWC
Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.0 contact hour(s).
CCM CE will be provided: 2.0 CE - CCM COA will be sent via email from UPMC Health Plan nurse planner approximately 6-8 weeks following the live date of the course.
This activity is eligible for endorsed credit for UPMC Health Plan EMTs and Paramedics. Complete ETHOS course work, obtain the attendance certificate, and submit to EMS governing body for 2 CE credit(s).
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 2.0 continuing education credit(s).
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
NOTE: Paramedic/EMT CE is approved for any activity in which ANCC (nursing CE) is approved. This is per Heather Bogdon and Christie Hempfling
Available Credit
- 2.00 ANCCUPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
- 2.00 ASWB
- 2.00 Attendance