Building Resilience Together

We heard you! No more Zoom on the weekends!

New dates coming soon! Contact us here if you’d like to discuss this program for your team or organization.

We are in trying times.

A Pandemic. Rampant racism and the uprising for Black Lives. Continued working and schooling from home. Relationship tensions as a result. Job loss or insecurity. Housing challenges. Health concerns. Loss of loved ones. Wildfires and smoke. The most contentious election in recent memory. 

Are you finding the weight of these things harder and hard to hold as the months go by?

Are you feeling concerned you look ahead to the fall and winter? Are you wondering how you are going to make it through the dark, cold, and wet months that will challenge our abilities to get time in nature and with friends? Are you starting to navigate conversations about the holidays and running into challenging family dynamics?

Our Invitation

We would like to support you in wading through these questions by inviting you to a series of conversations we’re calling Building Resilience Together. Each week we will explore what it means to be resilient in our lives and work and how we might find our way through the fall and winter in a life-giving way. 

We know it’s difficult to make time for anything extra during work hours but here’s why we’re asking you to:

• Slowing down and taking a moment for yourself is critical right now. It’s not extra - it’s a big part of building your resilience. Believe us, we and many people we know keep learning this the hard way. 

• People have told us that support like this is absolutely work-related. You need to put the oxygen mask on yourself first before you can do it for others. 

• Without resilience and the sense of calm it brings, you risk hurting others by being curt or dismissive, making poorer decisions, and having significantly less presence and patience for your colleagues, kids, spouses/partners, friends and family. 

So, please, join us.

People discovered (and were amazed by!):

• how they could experience a profound sense of safety with people they didn’t know.

• how simple listening activities allowed them to connect to what they really needed during the pandemic.

• how sharing their thoughts and emotions and hearing others left them feeling rejuvenated.

This is how we go about Building Resilience Together. We help each other put down the weight, release the tension, say what’s true, and connect to our wisdom so that we can move through these challenges in life-giving ways.

What will we talk about exactly?

Well, to be honest, we don’t know exactly because we always tailor our conversations to respond to the questions and needs of the people who attend. But, generally, we will talk about the following:

Session 1 — UNDERSTANDING RESILIENCE ON YOUR OWN TERMS

Sure, the experts out there have helpful ideas about resilience - what it is, what the foundations are, etc - but no one else can really know your needs given your unique situation. We’ll structure conversations to help you get to what resilience looks like for you.

Session 2 — WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR RESILIENCE IS STRETCHED

Given everything that’s going on in the world, we can be 99% sure that we will all be stretched and challenged by the holiday season this year. Together, we’ll explore what these stretches and challenges tend to be and how to take care of ourselves in the midst of them. We suspect the subject of boundaries will be up… :)

Session 3 — RE-IMAGINING YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO RESILIENCE

Often, we get stuck in our own stories about things and end up blocking ourselves from the very things we want in our lives. We’ll explore the stories we tell ourselves about our resilience with the intent of re-imagining new ones. Let’s make building our resilience more easeful.

Session 4 — STAYING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR RESILIENCE

Building our resilience is a continual practice. We’ll talk about ways to stay in touch with our resilience, especially as we anticipate going into the next round of holidays. We’ll explore what “early warning signs” and “check in practices” will help sustain you.

Goodies You’ll Get

• Practice suggestions/worksheets to help you understand and build your resilience.

• A special newsletter that includes inquiries to help you on your journey, offerings of support, and more!

• An invitation to a private (and optional) Marco Polo group as another way to receive support and be in community.

• If you register for all 4 conversations, we’d love to support you with a 1:1 session to help you work through what you are facing when it comes to building your resilience (60 minutes with either Shannon or Greg).

Cost

It is important to us that these conversations be accessible to whoever wants to come. So, we are offering a sliding scale, asking you to make a contribution that is within reach for you, but that feels like an investment. 

The suggested range is between $20-50 for each gathering you attend. 

We’ll also accept less and more. 😊

If $20 isn’t within reach for you, you can simply pay what you can, even if that’s $5. We mean it when we say we want you to be able to join us and get the support you want. 

If more than $50 is within reach and makes this investment feel more meaningful to you, you can simply pay us whatever that is. Those who can pay higher rates help make this program accessible for everyone and increase our ability to support BIPOC organizations.

We will be contributing 10% of all contributions to Holistic Resistance’s Grief to Action Camp as a way to put our commitment to racial justice work into action. The Grief to Action Camp is a semi-mobile camp where African Heritage and other identified POC (People of Color) can come shelter in place and grieve with support. The wonderful folks at Holistic Resistance, Aaron Johnson, Porsha Beed, Jennie Pearl and Dylan Wilder Quinn, are our teachers and mentors in our journey of learning to dismantle racism and oppression.