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0:00 This time of year in particular, as it gets dark early, you're gonna see loads of ‘self-improvement’ courses and products out there that promise to boost your resilience by helping you optimise things like your time management, your sleep routine, your mental and physical health.

0:17 And some of that stuff can be super helpful for people. But what the ‘self-improvement’ stories miss is that so many of the factors that affect our wellbeing are actually collective and systemic in nature, and you cannot possibly control them as an individual.

0:32 By focusing only on the individual person though, and promising to increase resilience without acknowledging the wider context of our lives, these ‘self-improvement’ offers can place a huge burden on people's shoulders and make them feel like their struggles, their exhaustion, their alienation is some kind of personal failure.

0:54 But I believe that our struggles are a sign of being human in incredibly difficult times.

1:00 You and me and everyone, we're doing our best to try and make it in impossible conditions that include things like rising fascism and toxic AI and genocide without consequence or living on a heating planet. We cannot possibly breathe or manage our way out of the apocalypse.

1:22 But what we can do is strengthen both our individual and our collective capacity to change the systems that erode our resilience in the first place.

1:33 So, I'm offering this course, Embodied resilience for apocalyptic times, as a space that doesn't disconnect the personal from the wider context and doesn't separate collective political change from personal inner work.

1:50 It's an approach and daily practice that helps you expand your inner resources and develop more stability, freedom and capacity in your own body to both improve your wellbeing and also become more capable of doing big and hard and beautiful things together with other people.

2:08 All the information is below and if you'd like to set up a chat and talk things through before you sign up, you can also do that.

2:15 I'll be really excited to meet you.