Teaching Paper: Building Resilience in Non-Profit Leadership and Staff – A 10-Week Curriculum for Sustainable Practice
Author: Dr. Anna Neya Kazanskaia
Publisher: NEYA Global Publishing
Article | NEYA Global Journal of Non-Profit Studies
Year: 2025
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5669-1676
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64357/neya-gjnps-rslpsstrldtm-tp-01
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This Teaching Paper introduces a structured 10-week resilience training curriculum designed for non-profit leaders and staff. Integrating psychological, team, and organizational dimensions of resilience, it responds to the complex pressures of mission-driven work. Drawing on stress management, self-efficacy, and adaptive systems theory, the curriculum combines mindfulness and digital resilience with long-term strategies such as climate adaptation, governance reform, and crisis simulation. Through experiential learning, peer collaboration, and reflective practice, it ensures applicability across diverse contexts, strengthening sustainability, wellbeing, and organizational capacity to withstand external shocks and uncertainties.
Key Topics
- Psychological and organizational resilience
- Stress management and mindfulness
- Team trust and collective coping
- Crisis simulation and adaptive planning
- Digital and climate resilience
- Governance and sustainability
Suggested Citation
Kazanskaia, A. N. (2025). Teaching Paper: Building Resilience in Non-Profit Leadership and Staff – A 10-Week Curriculum for Sustainable Practice. NEYA Global Journal of Non-Profit Studies. NEYA Global Publishing. https://doi.org/10.64357/neya-gjnps-rslpsstrldtm-tp-01
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