Discover a New Way to Live with Less Stress

Stress doesn’t come from your life directly — it comes from your thoughts about life. We teach a simple 7-step process that shifts your perspective on challenges, and has helped thousands of people lead change more effectively.

Try it for yourself – the first course is free.

Try it for Free
Featured at:

Increase Resilience 
in the “Big 5” Areas

The Resilience Academy improves how you transform challenges in relationships, parenting, the workplace, society, and more.


It starts with a new understanding of personal resilience, and why stress doesn’t work the way you’ve been told.

Try it for Free

Relationship
Resilience

Family
Resilience

Personal
Resilience

Leadership
Resilience

Community
Resilience

How It Works

This isn’t therapy or stress management. It’s a new way to experience breakthroughs across your life without saying a word.

1

Learn the Truth about Stress

Get instant access to our first course: Breaking the Stress Cycle, and discover where stress really comes from.

2

Experience an Insight

Try our 7-step Active Insight® process for yourself on a challenge in your life. You don’t have to say a word.

3

Lead Change

Take action from greater clarity. Join as a member to go further into relationships, parenting, and more.

Is there a best practice for increasing resilience?

Andy Bernstein first became interested in resilience as a teenager, when his father and little sister died unexpectedly. 

Determined to find answers, Andy explored dozens of processes, including three years working for bestselling author Byron Katie.

In 2004, Andy created his own process, and has spent more than 20 years teaching this as one of the corporate world’s most highly-rated speakers, helping thousands of people break through challenges faster.


The Resilience Academy makes the same tools available to you — and is free to try.

Try it for Free

“Masterful… I’ve never read a more useful book about managing stress — I’ve made it required reading for some of the people who matter most to me.”

– Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, Originals, and Give & Take

Andy’s book has helped thousands of people move beyond stress management to genuine resilience.

Now you can experience the interactive version for free with our introductory course on Breaking the Stress Cycle.

Try it for Free

Client Feedback

Andy has spent years sharing this toolkit with thousands of leaders. Now it’s available online for everyone.

“Enormously positive.”

“Useful, tangible ways of thinking differently, and real ways of solving differences. Wishing I had done this when I began my career.”

“Eye-Opening”

“This is more than just accepting that I can’t change my surroundings. Instead it changes my perspective. Very positive.”

“Extraordinarily successful.”

“People were able to learn how to utilize the process and make positive shifts in their thinking/experience in just a couple of hours. Andy is a rock star instructor.”

“Very insightful — simple but not easy”

 “A clear, concise way to deal with challenges, with practical applications and immediate results.”

“An enlightening experience”

“It gave us a new tool to manage work/life responsibilities. It’s a great technique I would recommend to other organizations committed to helping their employees be more productive and balanced.”

“Valuable and unique”

“Eye-opening on changing your perspective when dealing with tough issues and solving them“

“An excellent introduction to resiliency”

“If practiced well, it can tremendously reduce the burden of stress at work and home.“

“Insightful and illuminating”

“Great presenter with a pragmatic approach to improvement at work and at home.”

“Practical and eye-opening”

“Great EQ insights. Insightful, actionable, and useful.

“By far the most useful, provocative, and fascinating seminar I have ever participated in”

“It’s not nonsense, it’s not a Band-Aid, it’s just smart, tangible, and something that can be implemented across the board.”

“Relevant both personally and professionally”

“Year after year, Andy Bernstein’s sessions are among the top requested and top scoring sessions at the Securities Industry Institute. Andy is always listed as one of the favorite faculty members of the program.”

“Thought-provoking and powerful”

“Engaging. Great take-away. Resources both for my personal and professional life. This was time well spent.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Aaron Beck, the founder of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, wrote an endorsement of Andy’s book (“an outstanding guide”), and CBT therapists have used our worksheet with their patients, but this is a lay process that anyone can use to unlock transformational insights in 7 steps.

Not in the traditional sense. This process produces a shift in perspective based on greater clarity, not forced resignation. Instead of walking away saying, “It is what it is,” you walk away feeling lighter and inspired to try new approaches to change.

The first course takes around 30 minutes to complete. It’s divided into short audio lessons that you can listen to whenever you have time.

The process you learn on this site isn’t something done “to” you. You use a specific sequence of steps to challenge the way that you think. Most people over the age of 10 can do this (at first, as with any new skill, it takes some practice and coaching). The only real requirement is the ability to experience empathy and shift your perspective. 98% of people have this. It’s unlikely that the 2% of people who lack empathy and the ability to shift perspectives would be reading this. But to know how valuable the skill will be for you personally, try it and see.

7 Steps to a Clearer Mind

Peace of mind doesn’t come from something you add to your thinking.
It comes from something you take away.

Let us show you how these 7 steps can help you live a happier life.

Try it for Free