Thriving, Not Coping: Resilience, Realignment, Results

Resilience is the combination of mindset, resources, and strategies you have available to empower your life and overcome challenges, in a cycle of preparation, recovery and growth. It isn’t defined at birth or by events, but how you learn to deal with them.

Stop coping and start thriving. Learn how you and your team can enhance resilience, performance and quality of life, with a science-based, common-sense, practical approach tailored to your unique needs.

Ready to transform your mindset and unlock lasting results? Book a free consultation today to discover how we can help you achieve the resilience, success, and balance you’re striving for.

If you want different, learn & DO different

To truly thrive in both your personal and professional life, you need more than just intention—you need action. That’s why we offer a range of services designed to help you integrate new practices that support sustained growth and resilience.

We provide:

  1. Interactive Group Sessions – Collaborative workshops that foster community learning and allow you to share experiences while gaining new tools.

  2. One-on-One Executive and Personal Coaching – Tailored support to help you plan, implement, and integrate strategies that boost motivation, improve mental health, and elevate your overall quality of life with a focus on sustainability.

Additionally, we offer:

  1. Resilience Coaching Certification – A specialized program designed to empower you to coach others in building resilience, recognized as a core competency towards ICF accreditation.

  2. Coach Training Courses – Develop your skills as a coach while gaining essential tools to guide others on their resilience journey.

Based in Ottawa, Canada, we work both virtually and in-person with clients across Canada and around the world. Let us help you unlock the skills and strategies you need to not just cope—but truly thrive. Reach out today and let’s get started!

Customized, interactive group sessions: resilience, leadership & mental health

Virtual/ In-Person Group Sessions & Workshops – from Coping to Thriving

Uncertainty is everywhere. Add political turmoil, social and environmental concerns, plus a volatile economic climate: change is fast, unrelenting and it can feel overwhelming. We see the warning signs: exhaustion, decision fatigue, over-reactions, loss of motivation… How can you take back control? How do you make space for life, family and work?

Move beyond coping with new tools, fresh perspectives, and a structure that ensures your days include not just work, but time, energy, and space for living. Resilience training offers actionable strategies to help you and your team recharge, reduce stress, prevent burnout, and build a thriving, healthy workplace and life.

From small group sessions to all-staff retreats or targeted training for your leadership team, we design customized, interactive virtual and in-person group sessions tailored to meet your specific needs. These sessions provide measurable results and actionable takeaways.

Resilience, Mental Health, Burnout Prevention

  1. Build Mental Health & Resilience with 5-R’s: Reassess – Reframe – Recharge – Realign = Results
  2. Three-Dimensional Balance for Optimal Resilience
  3. From Coping to Thriving: Small Steps for Tangible Results
  4. Stress: Reduce, Avoid & Prevent – Then Manage the Rest

Resilient Workplace

  1. Resilient Leadership: Leading Through Change, Challenges & Uncertainty
  2. Thriving in Uncertainty
  3. Working Better Together (team-building)
  4. Managing “Life Currencies”: Time, Energy & Capacity
  5. Optimal Work Productivity with Time-Blocking & Serial-Tasking

All group sessions can be delivered in English, French or bilingual format (Canada) or in English, French or Spanish (international) including learning aids. For more information and costs, contact us: catherine@imagineplus.ca

Unlock Your Potential with Transformative Coaching

Are you ready to elevate your life and career? In our coaching practice, we specialize in Self-Leadership, Resilience, and Sustainability—powerful tools that can help you thrive, not just survive. Our goal is to help you connect with your inner strengths, build life-changing skills, and create strategies that empower you to live and work at your best. Whether you’re navigating personal transitions, enhancing your professional capabilities, or seeking better work-life balance, we’re here to guide you every step of the way.

With 30 years of expertise in coaching, psychology, mental health, and resilience, our approach is grounded in deep knowledge and tailored to your unique needs. We create a safe, confidential space where you can explore realistic solutions, overcome challenges, and unlock your true potential for both personal and professional success.

What We Offer

1. Executive Resilience & Leadership Coaching
Enhance your strategic thinking and leadership skills with a focus on resilience and sustainability. Learn how to harness your strengths, build new competencies, and apply simple strategies to improve your work and life. Optimize your professional value while maintaining a fulfilling personal life.

2. Life Management Coaching
Are you ready to thrive rather than just cope? With our self-management approach, you’ll gain the tools, strategies, and mindset shifts needed to transform your personal and family life, career, and overall life balance. Our sessions empower you to move from survival mode to true fulfillment.

3. Transition Coaching (Life / Career / Retirement)
Whether you’re considering a career change, transitioning into retirement, starting a new relationship, or navigating other life changes, we’ll help you explore your options and build a path that aligns with your future goals. Let’s make the next phase of your life one of success and satisfaction.

4. Resilience Coaching for Motivation & Mental Health
Learn how a resilience mindset and skillset can improve your motivation, mental stamina, and productivity even in the most challenging times. Our coaching offers effective techniques for reducing stress and recharging your mental and physical energy, so you can thrive both professionally and personally.

Key Benefits of Coaching with Us

  • Increase productivity and improve work-life balance
  • Learn mental and physical performance strategies for lasting results
  • Reduce stress and prevent burnout
  • Apply resilience and sustainability principles in daily life
  • Build a career and life that supports and inspires you
  • Unlock the 5-R’s of leadership: Responsible – Reasonable – Respectful – Realistic – Relevant
  • Explore life transitions with clarity and confidence
  • Unlock your full leadership potential, including self-leadership competencies
  • Master negotiation skills to improve your life and career outcomes
  • Grow a fulfilling, sustainable career that leaves room for the things you love

Ready to Get Started?

We invite you to book a free exploratory call with Catherine. In this conversation, we’ll discuss your goals, challenges, and explore how a coaching approach can transform your life and career.

You deserve a life and career that aligns with your true values, purpose, and potential. Let’s unlock it together.

Resilience Coaching Certification – Elevate Your Expertize

We are proud to offer a Resilience Coaching Certification in partnership with the ILCT Institute for Life Coach Training. This 80-hour course is open to both new and experienced coaches, offering an incredible opportunity to expand your practice, enhance your skills, and deepen your expertise in resilience coaching. Whether you’re looking to specialize in stress management, burnout recovery, or organizational resilience, this certification will elevate your coaching abilities and provide new possibilities for your career.

Key Highlights of the Certification:

  • Comprehensive 80-hour training to master resilience coaching
  • Open to both new and experienced coaches
  • Enhance your professional skillset with a proven coaching framework
  • Certification can expand your practice and open up new career opportunities

Ready to elevate your coaching practice?
To learn more or register, visit the ILCT Resilience Coaching Certification Page.


Continuing Education Opportunities

We also offer several Continuing Education Credit (CEC) courses for coaches, designed to enhance your skills and support ongoing certification with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and Centre for Continuing Education (CCE). All courses are taught by Catherine Morisset, a PCC-ICF and BCC-CCE accredited coach, ensuring you receive top-tier coaching training.

Resilience Coaching for Stress & Burnout (20 CEC’s)

A live, virtual, 10-week course (Thursdays 3:30-5:30pm ET).
This course will teach you how to help clients recover and rebuild from stress, develop new resilience skills, and better manage their emotional and mental energy to avoid burnout.
Spring 2025 Session: April 8 – June 10 (registration now open).
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Resilience 101 (6 CEC’s)

A live, virtual, 3-week course (Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm ET).
In this course, you’ll learn simple and effective strategies to build your own resilience, enabling you to show up energized, motivated, and ready to tackle life’s challenges.
Spring 2025 Session: June (registration opens in March).
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Coaching for Personal Resilience (20 CEC’s)

A live, virtual, 10-week course (Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm ET).
This transformative course is ideal for professionals working in mental health, healthcare, human resources, and more. Learn to effectively coach individuals on building long-term resilience, empowering them to face life’s challenges and thrive.
Spring 2025 Session: April 10 – June 12 (registration opens in January).
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Organizational Resilience & Resilient Leadership Coach Training (20 CEC’s)

A live, virtual, 10-week course (Thursdays 3:30-5:30pm ET).
This course goes beyond personal resilience to focus on building collective resilience within organizations. Learn how resilient leadership can shape work cultures and how to engage groups in virtual coaching sessions effectively.
Fall 2025 Session: October – December (registration opens in August).
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Coaching for Family Resilience (10 CEC’s)

A live, virtual, 5-week course (Tuesdays 3:30-5:30pm ET).
This course will deepen your understanding of how to build resilient family dynamics. You’ll gain strategies to help your clients strengthen family relationships and foster lasting resilience at home.
Fall 2025 session: October – November (registration opens in August)
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Take the Next Step in Your Coaching Career

Whether you’re looking to specialize in resilience coaching, deepen your existing expertise, or earn Continuing Education Credits, these courses offer the perfect opportunity for professional growth.

Ready to start? Click on any of the course links above to learn more, or reach out to Catherine Morisset for more personalized guidance.

Explore Our Courses and Register Now

About Catherine Morisset

Catherine Morisset, Professional Certified Coach PCC-ICF, Board-Certified Coach BCC-CCE, Certified Resilience Coach CRC-ILCT, BA Psychology

With over 30 years of professional experience, I am a seasoned coach, facilitator, speaker, teacher, writer, and entrepreneur dedicated to helping individuals and organizations build resilient, fulfilling lives and careers. My mission is to empower you to thrive—whether you’re navigating life transitions, developing your leadership potential, or fostering growth within your team or organization.

As someone who has personally faced and overcome my own life’s challenges, I understand firsthand the power of resilience. My journey has taught me that our experiences shape us, but our mindset and the choices we make in response to adversity are what truly define our path. Through my work, I guide clients to transform challenges into opportunities for growth, building sustainable resilience one step at a time.

I introduced the concept of a resilience mindset into leadership and change management for Canada’s federal government and the private sector more than 20 years ago. Since then, I’ve coached and trained leaders, professionals, and teams in how to cultivate resilience in their personal and professional lives. As one of the first to integrate resilience into mental health and coaching, I created ICF-recognized certification courses in resilience coaching in 2014, furthering the field.

I have had the privilege of working with organizations such as the Canada School of Public Service (2004–2013), Economic & Social Development Canada (2015–present), and Health Canada (2008–present), where I have provided coaching, training, and resilience-based strategies. My expertise extends across leadership development, career coaching, and creating high-performing teams and organizations. I’m proud to work in English, French, and Spanish, ensuring broad access to my expertise.

Let’s connect! Schedule a complimentary consultation or reach out to me directly at catherine.imagineplussolutions@gmail.com. Together, we can unlock your potential and create the life and career you’ve always envisioned.

Our purpose is to help you integrate key strategies to support & build your capacity despite challenges, & THRIVE

Our Clients

We work with federal government departments and agencies, national / international organizations and individual clients.  Our clients are busy executives, professionals and entrepreneurs who, like you, deal daily with the challenges of a fast-paced, multi-dimensional, diverse workplace and demanding family/personal life.  They want and deserve the best outcomes, and we provide them with adapted, realistic, practical strategies and solutions.

  • SOS-HC Qualified Service Provider 2008-current
  • CBSA, CRA, CRCC & Canada Space Agency
  • Global Affairs
  • Fisheries & Oceans Canada
  • Entrepreneurs’ Organization
  • ESDC-HRSDC
  • FCM – Federation of Canadian Municipalities
  • Health Canada
  • ILCT – Institute for Life Coach Training (USA)
  • Justice Canada
  • LAC-BAC
  • Municipalities such as: Ottawa and Windsor
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • School Boards, such as New Frontiers
  • PPSC, Public Safety & RCMP
  • Service Canada & Service Ontario
  • SSHRC & Statistics Canada
  • Transport Canada & Treasury Board
  • Police Departments & 9-1-1 Centres

  

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WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY…

We hired Catherine to speak at an all-staff... about resilience and healthy life habits. We found the session engaging, interactive and well suited for the needs of our group. Her delivery style and the message were perfect for our group of about 30 people and it was evident that she was very well prepared for her presentation. Overall we were very pleased with her presentation; it was a worthwhile session and we received good value for our investment
Workplace Mental Health Committee
Catherine truly set the tone for our group to start small and connect with reasonable goals. She exemplified by her words and the questions she asked. She was fully present and inspired and element of calm focus. It was clearly evident that she loves what she does and brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. She taught from a place of genuine passion and expertise to the field of resilience and how it applies at a personal and organizational level.
Jennifer D.
About the Organizational Resilience course Catherine created and teaches at ILCT to train executive and business coaches: There are very few courses that I've taken that were as transformative and life-changing. This is one of them. Wonderful course and excellent instructor.
Dr. Kathy Terry
Your suggestions really helped and I look forward to further coaching with you. I appreciate your insights, suggestions, patience and encouragement over the past sessions. I know I have made some changes for the better and look forward to following up on the rest and succeeding.
James, Executive Coaching Client
Catherine’s approach was instrumental in re-creating our organization for the future: it changed everything. The insights, tools and strategies Catherine provided us have helped create a better, stronger organizational culture.
Sean, CEO Retreat
What Catherine taught me was how to focus on core strengths. Sounds something somewhat trite but it has made a substantive difference in my overall performance and quality of life, to function more effectively as an executive.
Bill, Executive Coaching Client
Your coaching sessions have helped me tremendously. Whereas a few months ago, I felt close to burnout, I can see how my life has changed for the better. I have restored myself, and I can address clearly how I can build a better career and a better life for myself. Thanks for your support, for the strategies you shared, and for believing in me.
Susan, Resilience Coaching Client
Yesterday’s Resilience-Building session for our team was such an eye-opener, and we have had so many positive comments. We look forward to our next session with you.
Greg, Resilience Team Session

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