People are most likely to burn out at work or in their activism because of interpersonal conflict. There are many structural things we can feel helplessly at the mercy of, but this is an area we can do something about.

We can actively expand our capacity to be with change, complexity, conflict, difference and uncertainty. In doing so, we grow both our individual and collective resilience.

I’m a certified facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit, a trauma-informed stress reduction methodology based on an understanding that resilience is not about bouncing back from unjust conditions but about expanding our collective ability to change the things that cause our stress in the first place.

In my sessions, I aim to create a space where we can hold both the political reality we’re in and the personal impact this has on our bodies and our lives, because they are not separate from each other.

This is inner work that is intentionally connected to what is happening politically and societally around us.

In each session, we explore key frameworks for understanding how stress manifests in the body and try out different body-based practices together, which you can do anywhere in under 2 minutes to help settle the nervous system. Some of the practices include gentle physical movement, which is optional and can be adapted to your body.