The KIRB® Course
A Practical Wellbeing Check-In for High Stress Work
Understand your current stress and resilience patterns—and learn effective ways to strengthen what supports you most.
GET STARTEDDoes this sound like you?
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You’re showing up and getting things done, but you’re not sure how sustainable your pace really is.
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You know a lot about stress and wellbeing in theory, but haven’t had much opportunity to pause and reflect on how you’re actually doing.
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You find your work meaningful and worthwhile, but you’re aware it’s taking a toll.
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You don’t feel completely burned out —but you also don’t feel as resourced or steady as you’d like.
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You’d value a structured way to check in with your wellbeing—without judgment, labels, or pressure to fix everything at once.
You're not alone
Many capable, committed professionals find themselves in this space—seemingly coping well enough (mostly), while quietly questioning balance and long-term sustainability.
Do you want...
- A clearer picture of what’s currently supporting your wellbeing—and what’s quietly undermining it.
- Language to reflect on your stress and coping without self-criticism.
- A few realistic, practical adjustments in place that support you day to day.
INTRODUCING
The KIRB® Course: Resilience Essentials for Everyday Life
The KIRB® Course is a practical, efficient way to pause, take stock, and strengthen what supports you right now
You will:
- Take the KonTerra Inventory of Resilience Builders® (KIRB®).
- Receive your personalized KIRB® Assessment Report.
- Work through a 50-minute self-paced video course, Resilience Essentials, that helps you make sense of your results, learn more about stress and coping, and connect insight to practical action.
- Identify what is currently supporting your resilience, and where small, realistic adjustments could make the biggest difference right now.
The course is perfect for people working in high-stress or demanding roles who want a practical way to check in on their wellbeing.
I'm ready to get startedWhat's included in the KIRB® Course: Resilience Essentials...
MODULE 1
Get Started by Taking the KIRB®
Learn how the course works, complete the KIRB®, and download your personalized KIRB® Assessment Report.
MODULE 2
Understanding the Impact of Stress
Learn how stress affects the brain and body, how the stress response system operates, and how its effects accumulate over time.
MODULE 3
Exploring your KIRB® Resilience Factor Scores
Learn what resilience is, how it’s supported by your body budget and everyday resilience builders, and reflect on your KIRB® Resilience Factor scores.
MODULE 4
The Coping Continuum: From Self-Care to Self-Sabotage
Learn how coping strategies exist along a continuum, how to recognize high-risk coping patterns, and practical ways to reduce behaviors that may undermine wellbeing.
MODULE 5
Building Sustainable Self-Care Habits
Learn how habits support resilience, principles and techniques for building sustainable self-care habits, and how to create a simple, realistic action plan.
MODULE 6
Closing Reflections
Reflect on your learning across the course and consider how to carry it forward.
Who are we?
About KonTerra
The KonTerra Group helps individuals and teams manage stress, enhance wellbeing, and build resilience—particularly those working in high-stress, high-stakes roles. We specialize in staff care, organizational resilience, and evaluation services that are practical, evidence-based, and grounded in real-world challenges.
For more than 15 years, we’ve supported humanitarian and development professionals, first responders, trust & safety teams, and leaders navigating sustained pressure, uncertainty, and emotional demands. Across counseling, training, coaching, and consulting, our focus is on tools and approaches that respect context, acknowledge constraints, and are usable in practice.
The KIRB® and Resilience Essentials for Everyday Life course reflect this approach. They start with personalized insight, then offer clear, practical guidance you can use right away to focus on what matters most.
What others have said...
"I loved the module on habits! There is so much value in that content it could even stand alone as its own training."
- Psychologist
"Overall I thought it was really helpful. I really appreciated the tool, the report, and the process.”
- NGO staff member
What sets us apart
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Practitioner-led and field-informed.
The KIRB® was developed by a working group of subject matter experts with decades of collective experience supporting people working in high-threat environments and high-stress roles. -
Grounded in a practical, applied definition of resilience.
The KIRB® emphasizes sustainability over time and recovery after strain, and encourages reflection on the everyday behaviors and choices that support resilience—not just mindset or perspective. -
Addresses high-risk coping directly and realistically.
The course explicitly explores high-risk coping strategies—common ways people manage stress, boredom, or emotional load that can feel helpful in the short term but can reduce resilience when overused. -
Evidence-informed and rigorously developed.
The KIRB® is based on a comprehensive review of existing resilience measures and research, with particular attention to resilience in high-stress environments and roles. -
Designed for global, cross-cultural use.
The KIRB® was developed using clear, accessible language and tested across multiple cultural contexts to ensure relevance for a global audience.
GET STARTED
The KIRB® Course: Resilience Essentials for Everyday Life
14-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
If you take the KIRB®, download your Assessment Report, and complete the video lessons and aren’t completely satisfied, let us know within the first 14-days for a full refund. No questions asked.
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One last thought
When work is intense and time is limited, it’s common to keep pushing without stopping to reflect. The longer that continues, the easier it is to miss early signs of imbalance and to over-rely on coping strategies that aren’t healthy or sustainable. The KIRB® and Resilience Essentials course creates space to pause and make any adjustments—before change becomes necessary.