Advanced Course
Across our communities, the burden of adversity is growing heavier. Anxiety, depression, and suicide are at historic highs, especially among children and teens. But there is hope. Research shows that emotional resilience can be taught. Building Resilient Kids equips parents, caregivers, educators, and ministry leaders with practical, research-informed tools to help the children in their lives thrive — no matter what they’ve faced.
OPEN
8 Weeks · Live Online
Understanding Breakthrough Course + Application Required
12 CE Credits available
$875
WEEKS LONG
Online Format
Cohort Size
Credits Available
Building Resilient Kids equips parents, caregivers, educators, and ministry leaders with practical, research-informed tools to help the children in their lives thrive — no matter what they’ve faced.
Explore the many facets of resilience and discover why some children bounce back from hardship while others get stuck — and what makes the difference.
Learn how to expand your ability to hold space for others without becoming overwhelmed. Develop the inner resources needed to remain present, regulated, and effective over the long term.
Move beyond theory into practice. You’ll walk away with concrete strategies for teaching resilience skills directly to the children and teens in your life.
Explore a toolbox of activities and exercises specifically designed to help kids practice resilience skills in real time — at home, in classrooms, and in ministry settings.
You won’t just study these tools — you’ll experience them yourself. Engaging with the material personally deepens your understanding and prepares you to lead others through it.
Learn how to cultivate the kind of safe, connected relationships that form the bedrock of resilience — and discover how joy plays a central role in a child’s emotional health.
Adversity is part of the human experience. Resilience is what allows us to bounce back — and even grow. The key to becoming more resilient is joy, and true, authentic joy can only come from healthy relationships.
This course doesn’t just tell you what resilience is — it walks you through how to build it, one relationship and one skill at a time. You’ll finish with a robust understanding of how to build strong, healthy attachments, walk with a child through difficult emotions, help kids return to feeling safe and connected, and use story as a tool for discovering purpose and building hope.
Each week combines expert instruction, hands-on practice, and practical tools — delivered live so you can engage, ask questions, and grow alongside a community of like-minded caregivers and leaders.
Eight sessions of biblically grounded, research-informed teaching that integrates the neuroscience of trauma with practical strategies for building resilience in children.
Each week you’ll discuss and practice what you’re learning in online breakout rooms with fellow participants. Relational learning goes deeper — and that’s exactly the point.
More than just information, this course gives you hands-on exercises and practical tools you can use immediately. You’ll experience each activity as a participant before you ever use it with a child.
Stefanie Hinman (Board-Certified Christian Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, and Crisis Response Chaplain) is the founder of Healing Expressions LLC, where she works with individuals, families, schools, and organizations in the areas of trauma healing, crisis response, and building resilient kids, families, and communities.
She is the author of several books including, “Burning Strong Without Burning Out,” “Building Bounce for Kids,” and co-author of “Building Bounce” with Dr. Marcus Warner.
Building Resilient Kids requires completion of the Understanding Breakthrough Course (or Prayer Ministry Certification) and an application for enrollment. This ensures every participant is ready to engage fully with the material and contribute meaningfully to the cohort.
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For Prayer Ministry Certification graduates
This course is for Certified Deeper Walk Prayer Ministers who work with or care for children and wants practical, research-informed tools for building resilience — parents, foster parents, grandparents, teachers, school counselors, youth workers, pastors, and ministry leaders.
Yes — Building Resilient Kids requires an application for enrollment. This helps ensure the cohort is well-suited to engage deeply with the material together. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Plan for approximately 4-6 hours per week — the live session plus personal study and practice time between sessions.
If you miss a session, you will be given access to that week’s teaching video and any assignments you may have missed.
Not to worry! Click the “Student Sign-In” button at the top of this website and you should find it. If not, please contact us.
You will have long term access to the teaching portion of each class.
Yes! There are 12 CE credit hours available for this course for an additional $25. You can register for CEs when you enroll in the course or click here.
To receive your certificate you must have: successfully completed the course, filled out the post-course evaluation form, and completed all quizzes with a passing grade of 75% or higher.
Deeper Walk International has been approved by the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board (License #98000989a) as an educational provider offering Category I continuing education to social workers, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, addiction counselors, and clinical addiction counselors.
Please check with your state licensing board to confirm that CEs granted by the Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Licensing Board count in your state and for your occupation.
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