RESILIENCE IN SERVICE
A Resilience Officer Training Program
A practical, evidence-based training program designed to help law enforcement professionals strengthen their own resilience while learning how to enhance resilience, operational readiness, and sustainable performance in others.
Strengthening operational readiness through resilience, awareness and peer connection.
Operational Readiness Starts Long Before a Critical Incident
Law enforcement professionals face a unique combination of operational stress, cumulative trauma exposure, hypervigilance, shift work, and increasing workplace complexity. While resilience has often been associated with toughness, endurance, and simply pushing through, the realities of modern policing require a broader and more sustainable approach.
The cumulative impact of operational stress can affect decision-making, communication, situational awareness, recovery, leadership effectiveness, and overall wellbeing. Supporting operational readiness requires more than responding after challenges emerge. It requires practical skills, daily habits, peer connection, and the ability to recognize and manage stress before it begins to impact performance, health, family life, or career sustainability.
This program is designed for officers, supervisors, field training officers, peer mentors, and emerging leaders who want to strengthen their own resilience while helping build a culture of resilience, readiness, and peer support within their service.
Why Resilience Officers?
Employee Assistance Programs provide important clinical support.
Peer Support Teams provide critical assistance during times of crisis.
Resilience Officers play a different role.
They help create a culture where resilience is practiced before challenges escalate. Through coaching-informed conversations, practical resilience tools, and peer connection, they help strengthen operational readiness one interaction at a time.
By the end of the program, participants will be able to:
Embody Resilience
Develop a deep understanding of resilience and its role in operational readiness, officer wellness, leadership and performance.
Manage System Activation
Apply practical nervous system regulation strategies and physical recovery tactics directly in high-pressure situations both on and off duty. Â
Understand Operational Stress
Recognize how cumulative stress, trauma exposure, and hypervigilance impact performance, communication, and decision-making.
Mentor Resilience
Engage in psychologically safe, coaching-informed conversations that strengthen resilience, build trust, and peer support.
Build Sustainable Performance
Establish consistent, long-term resilience-enhancing practices and habits that support long-term wellness, leadership effectiveness, and career sustainability.
The 12-Week Learning Journey
The Resilience Officer Training Program combines live facilitated learning, online microlearning, peer mentoring, resilience-enhancing micro-practices, and real-world application over a 12-week period.
Rather than relying on information alone, participants actively practice and apply resilience tools between sessions- strengthening awareness, regulation, recovery, leadership, and peer support skills over time.
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Foundations & Program Launch
Participants begin with online foundation modules reframing resilience, operational readiness, nervous system awareness, coaching-informed conversations, and the program’s resilience framework. The journey begins with a live facilitated launch session focused on resilience, assessment insights, peer mentor pairing, and practical resilience tools.
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Weekly Microlearning & Practice
Between live sessions, participants complete short online lessons and implement resilience-enhancing micro-practices grounded in the three pillars of the Resilience in Service framework:
- Physical Mastery
- Self-Awareness
- Intentional Orientation
Through practical application, reflection, peer mentoring, and weekly implementation, participants strengthen the habits, behaviors, and awareness that support resilience, operational readiness, sustainable performance, and long-term wellbeing.
Participants also meet regularly with their peer mentoring partner to reflect, practice resilience conversations, strengthen accountability, and support sustainable behavior change.
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Live Integration Sessions
Throughout the program, participants come together for facilitated live sessions focused on:
- Nervous system regulation
- Positive neuroplasticity
- Sustainable behaviour change
- Coaching-informed mentoring conversations
- Law enforcement case studies and application
- Embodiment, integration, and moving forward
Each session includes discussion, reflection, practical application, and real-world policing scenarios designed to strengthen operational readiness and resilience in everyday service.
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Real-World Application
Participants are encouraged to immediately apply the tools, practices, and conversations within their personal lives, leadership roles, teams, and policing environments, reinforcing resilience through consistent action rather than information alone.
A Proven Framework. Adapted for Policing.
You will learn experientially – you will apply the learning to yourself and then will coach another.
The Resilience in Service Program was developed in partnership with the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service and is built upon the evidence-based framework of The Leadership Wellness Group's flagship Certified Resilience Coach Program (CRCP).
Over the past six years, the CRCP has been delivered to more than 20 cohorts and over 300 participants worldwide, helping coaches, leaders, and professionals cultivate resilience, wellbeing, and sustainable performance. The program is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and has been recognized as the #1 Resilience Coach Training Program by Life Coach Magazine.
Resilience in Service brings this proven framework into a law enforcement context through policing-specific language, scenarios, case studies, and operational application creating a practical and relevant learning experience for today's policing environment.
Hear what our Certified Resilience Coach graduates have to say...
Meet your Lead Instructors:
As an executive development specialist, certified coach, and yoga therapist, Monica delivers workshops and coaching that help individuals and organizations thrive in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world. She is passionate about empowering people to manage stress, build healthy habits, cultivate resilience, and live with greater ease, purpose, and presence. Monica is the Founder of The Leadership Wellness Group and author of the Amazon best-selling book A New Way to Be: Becoming Resilient One Habit, Breath, and Moment at a Time.
Monica Bodurka, MBA, CIHC, CYT
Rita is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and holds her ACC coaching credential with the International Coach Federation, of which she is a member. Rita’s coaching is grounded in her personal experience as a senior leader and draws on her extensive coaching and program development experience overseeing innovative learning initiatives for leaders in a wide array of industries and organizational settings.
Rita McDowall, MEd, CCPC, ACC
Successful Participants Will Receive
âś“ Certificate of Completion from The Leadership Wellness Group
âś“ Resilience Officer Digital Badge
âś“ Access to ongoing Community of Practice opportunities
âś“ Recognition as a trained Resilience Officer within the pilot initiative
Join the Inaugural Resilience Officer Program Pilot
The September 2026 pilot cohort is limited to approximately 20–30 participants representing 4–6 police services across Canada. This small cohort is intentionally designed to support meaningful discussion, peer learning, and cross-service collaboration.
$1699
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Advance Registration Rate available until August 2, 2026.
Standard Tuition: $1,999 USD per participant after August 2, 2026.
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Your Registration Includes
You will have access to all program materials for 180 days. Plus, when the program concludes you will also recieve:
âś” One private post-program coaching session with Monica Bodurka
âś” Three months of graduate access to the Leadership Wellness Group Community of Practice
Help Shape the Future of Resilience in Service
As a member of the inaugural pilot cohort, you will play an important role in helping shape the future of the Resilience in Service initiative and the evolution of the Resilience Officer role within policing.
Your experience, feedback, and insights will help inform future cohorts and contribute to building a practical, scalable model for strengthening operational readiness, resilience, and peer support across police services.
Space Is Limited
To ensure a high-quality learning experience and meaningful interaction across services, participation in the pilot is intentionally capped.
Registrations for the September 2026 pilot cohort are now being accepted.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Resilience in Service is a non-clinical professional development program focused on operational readiness, resilience, peer support, and sustainable performance. Participants learn practical tools and coaching-informed approaches that help strengthen resilience before challenges escalate.
No. Peer Support Teams play an important role during times of crisis or when members require additional support. Resilience Officers serve a different function by helping to embed resilience, awareness, and coaching-informed conversations into everyday policing culture.
This program is designed for officers, supervisors, field training officers, peer mentors, and emerging leaders who want to strengthen their own resilience while learning how to support resilience and operational readiness in others.
Yes. While the program was designed with policing in mind, the tools and practices are relevant for communications personnel, civilian staff, supervisors, and other members who contribute to the overall health and effectiveness of a police service.
No. The program teaches a coaching-informed mentoring approach and assumes no prior coaching experience. Participants will learn practical frameworks and conversation skills that can be applied immediately within their role.
Resilience Officers are not therapists, counsellors, or formal coaches. They are trained peers who use resilience tools, practical frameworks, and coaching-informed conversations to help strengthen resilience, trust, and peer support within their service.
Successful participants receive a Leadership Wellness Group Certificate of Completion, a Resilience Officer Digital Badge, access to program resources, and a personalized resilience plan to support ongoing development.
Yes. Participants receive 180 days of access to the online learning platform, program resources, and supporting materials.
The Resilience in Service Program is built upon the framework of The Leadership Wellness Group's Certified Resilience Coach Program, which is accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and has been delivered to over 300 participants worldwide.
Please contact:
Lee-Ann O’Brien
Deputy Chief
Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service
[email protected]
Office: (613) 575-2340
