Resilience Lab
Build Knowledge. Strengthen Skills. Put Resilience Into Practice.
Flexible learning opportunities designed to help professionals, organizations, and communities build practical resilience, knowledge, leadership, and applied skills.
Practical Learning for Real-World Resilience
Resilience work is complex, interdisciplinary, and constantly evolving. The Resilience Lab makes that work more approachable through practical learning experiences that connect core concepts with useful tools, real-world examples, and opportunities to apply what you learn.
Whether you are new to resilience, strengthening an existing skill set, or building capacity across a team or organization, the Lab offers flexible learning designed to meet you where you are and help you move knowledge into practice.
Choose Your Learning Path
Certificate Courses
Go deeper. Build applied knowledge.
Structured, asynchronous courses that combine core concepts, practical tools, real-world applications, and applied activities.
Participants earn a certificate, digital badge with transcript, and verified Professional Development Hours (PDHs) upon completion.
Short Courses
Focused learning. Practical application.
Flexible, asynchronous courses that explore specific resilience topics through essential concepts, examples, and useful tools.
Participants receive a transcript documenting verified PDHs.
Skill Builders
Quick learning. Practical skills.
Free, quick learning experiences designed to strengthen resilience knowledge and practical skills through accessible, bite-sized content.
Featured Certificate Course
Resilience Foundations
Build a strong foundation for understanding and advancing whole-community resilience.
Resilience Foundations introduces the concepts, systems, tools, and practices that support stronger, more adaptable communities. Through interconnected modules, participants explore how resilience challenges develop, how risks and vulnerabilities can be understood, and how communities can strengthen capacity and move from planning toward implementation.
The course combines individual learning with an applied Community Resilience Brief, giving participants an opportunity to use course concepts to examine a real resilience issue without completing a full technical assessment or resilience plan.
10 Modules
Applied Learning
30 Verified PDHs
Certificate + Digital Badge
Designed for Application
Learn it. Use it.
The Resilience Lab is built around more than passive learning. Courses are designed to help participants connect resilience concepts with the decisions, systems, partnerships, and challenges they encounter in their own work.
Depending on the course, learning may include:
- practical tools and frameworks;
- real-world examples and scenarios;
- brief assignments and reflection activities;
- applied exercises;
- downloadable resources; and
- opportunities to connect learning with community or organizational needs.
Professional Development
Learning That Counts
Eligible Resilience Lab courses include verified Professional Development Hours (PDHs) to document completed learning.
Certificate courses may also include:
Completion Certificate
Recognition of successful course completion.
Digital Badge
A portable credential that can be shared professionally.
Transcript
Documentation of completed coursework and verified learning hours.
Learning in Action
Growing Resilience Capacity Across Virginia
Professionals from public agencies, organizations, and communities are already using the Resilience Lab to strengthen their resilience knowledge and applied skills. Hear what others are saying…
"The Resilience Foundations Program empowered me to take resilient action in my personal and professional life!"
"The Resilience Foundations Certificate Program gave me a shared set of tools and experiences to draw from to more easily work with the planners and community members across Virginia. I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in getting more involved with resilience-related activities!"
"Participating in the program enhanced my knowledge and provided effective learning tools."
Customized Training
Bring the Resilience Lab to Your Team
Resilience needs vary across organizations, sectors, and communities. Resilient Virginia can adapt existing learning or develop customized training experiences around your audience, priorities, and goals.
Customized training may include:
- facilitated workshops;
- organization or agency cohorts;
- tailored course content;
- topic-specific learning series; and
- customized tools or resources.
Training can be designed for virtual, asynchronous, or blended delivery depending on the need.
Interested in customized learning for your team?