Resilience a Practical Guide for Coaches

Resilience is a practical, evidence-informed guidebook for coaches working with clients navigating change, challenge, or recovery. Pemberton explores resilience not as an innate trait, but as a dynamic process of adaptation. Through accessible language and a wide range of tools, she helps coaches recognise signs of depleted resilience and offers strategies to help clients reconnect with their strengths and purpose.

Drawing on cognitive behavioural, solution-focused and narrative approaches, Pemberton provides a flexible framework for building resilience through self-awareness, emotional regulation, and future orientation. She integrates case studies, reflective questions and exercises to support real-world coaching conversations, while emphasising the coach’s own resilience and presence.

This book is concise, well-structured and highly applicable. Each chapter offers usable insights for coaches at all stages of their practice. Whether supporting clients through redundancy, health recovery or leadership pressure, Resilience equips coaches to hold space, reframe stories, and guide clients toward constructive forward movement.

It is an essential companion for resilience-focused coaching.

Key Takeaways:
1. Applying multi-modal tools to strengthen client resilience
2. Using narrative reframing techniques to rebuild agency
3. Enhancing coach resilience to model adaptive capacity