The Course
Walk the framework, one module at a time.
The book gives you the compass and the path. The course walks them with you — nine guided modules presenting the full framework, built for the weeks when reading isn’t enough and you need someone to go first.
Online Course
The Bouncing Forward Course
The book’s companion course. Nine guided modules presenting the framework — the 4-Element Compass and the 4-Step Path — each with a short video, a downloadable companion guide, and space to build your own plan as you go.
Not a lecture. A path, one module at a time.
The course is part of All In — free, everything open. A downloadable copy of the book, all nine modules, the journal, a premium monthly newsletter, and everything new we add to Bouncing Forward.
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Module 1: An Introduction to Bouncing Forward
See how the course feels before you begin. In this opening module, Maher introduces the Compass, the Path, and the honest question the whole framework is built to answer.
The Course
Nine modules. A short video and a worksheet for each.
The Compass first — four elements to keep you oriented — then the Path, four steps to help you move. Go in order, or start where you’re standing.
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Nine videos from Maher, a worksheet for each — free, yours for life, the moment you finish the assessment.
Module 1
Introduction to Bouncing Forward
In January 2008, Maher Kaddoura’s seventeen-year-old son Hikmet was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Amman. This is the introduction to Bouncing Forward — the framework Maher built from the hardest thing he has ever faced: a Compass of four elements to keep you oriented, and a Path of four steps to help you move. It begins with one question. Not “why did this happen?” — but “what now?”
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 2
Element 1 — Resilience
Grief arrives in layers — and resilience matters most when life simply continues around you. Maher shares the image at the heart of this element: bamboo in a storm, bending almost to the ground and rising again. Plus the five things he wants you to know about building resilience, including the one sentence that held him.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 3
Element 2 — Adaptability
After his son’s death, Maher’s old life no longer fit — and the adaptation he chose surprised even him: road safety, the very thing that took his son. Think of your mind as a smartphone: every so often it needs an update, not because the old version was broken, but because the world has changed around you.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 4
Element 3 — Optimism
Being pessimistic is effortless — your brain is designed for it. Being optimistic is hard, and in the months after loss it can even feel like a betrayal. Maher’s approach: don’t force optimism, observe it. Two questions to ask at the end of every day, even the hardest ones.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 5
Element 4 — Support
No one crosses a hard season alone — and the feeling that your pain is too heavy to ask others to bear is always wrong. Maher on saying what you actually need, letting people show up imperfectly, and why support flows in both directions or not at all.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 6
Step 1 — Accept
In the hours after the accident, Maher’s mind ran the alternative timelines — the what-ifs that are natural, and a trap. Acceptance is not agreeing that what happened was fair; you can accept a reality while still finding it unjust. It is the shift between two questions: the one with no answer, and the one that demands one.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 7
Step 2 — Reflect
One week after his son’s death, Maher sat down with a newspaper and a notepad and began to count — and grief became fury, and fury became purpose. Reflection is the disciplined practice of letting experience become wisdom, built on one question only: what does this loss ask of me?
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 8
Step 3 — Imagine
Through a gap in the trees, a mountain appears — and you are no longer simply moving, you are moving towards something. Maher on how one “what if I can…” became 1,200 playgrounds and 260 safer schools: purpose before plans, a goal small enough to start today, and a face attached to it.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
Module 9
Step 4 — Action
Maher was not a minister and had no mandate — only grief, some experience, and a conviction that became impossible to ignore. So he started where he could. On first steps taken without permission, milestones no one else can see, and why passion inspires but only discipline delivers.
Video and worksheet open with the Full Assessment.
How to Use This
Start where you are.
Some people want structure when the ground feels unsteady. Some want a voice keeping them company. There’s no right pace, no right order, and no falling behind.
Start where you are. That’s the whole idea.
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Seven steps. Seven honest prompts. One small step at the end — free, downloadable, yours to keep. With it comes a weekly note to keep you moving forward. No noise, and easy to leave.
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