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The Art of Resilience

Resilience ebbs and flows.
Resilience waxes and wanes.
Resilience fades and grows.

Build Resilience

The Art of Resilience is the Trillium Center's online education project to build skills to help individuals and communities endure the tough times. 

The mission is to help people develop fortitude, pluck, and post-traumatic growth and prevent and recover from burn-out.

Each offering is designed to impart ideas, thoughts, and activities to  allow participants to increase resilience, connect with where we live, and pay more attention to the life around us whether it flies, swims, crawls, slithers, creeps, or simply grows from the earth.

A rosebud endures despite being covered with ice.

cultivate

resilience
grit
fortitude
determination
drive
intrepidity
guts
tenacity
persistence
indomitability
spunk
steadfastness
post-traumatic growth
a stiff upper lip
dauntlessness
pluck
heart

Resources

  • Free

Art of Resilience: How to Store Fresh Fruits & Vegetables

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  • 1 file

This guide was created in 2020 to help people learn more about storing fresh food. The guide was paid for by The Pollination Project.
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  • Free

Art of Resilience: Seasonal Gardening

  • Course
  • 32 Lessons

We created an email-based seasonal gardening guide for the Great Lakes region, because living deeply in a place means knowing a bit about the non-human communities and how they interact with each other. The seasonal gardener learns to watch plant communities and wildlife when making decisions about when to do what. This guide was paid for by The Pollination Project.
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  • Free

Health & Safety Kits

  • Course
  • 19 Lessons

Lessons include the Lazy Medic Philosophy, the Magic Blanket, and methods for building personalized health and safety kits.
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  • Free

Herbal Resilience in Uncertain Times

  • Course
  • 20 Lessons

My personal stories from working in free clinics during environmental and political disasters and how I translated my experiences into post-traumatic growth and resilience using herbalism.
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  • Free

Radical Responsible Herbalism: Lessons in Herbal Safety from the Front Lines

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  • 1 file

Radical Responsible Herbalism is about getting to the root of the problem for effective and safe use of herbs. A radical approach means addressing root problems to support healing of the whole body-mind-spirit. My lessons come from working with people in emergent situations, helping them recover from burn-out and trauma, and developing long-lasting resilience.
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  • Free

Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing

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  • 1 file

"Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing" is a short guide for wild food foragers, herbalists, and homesteaders. This downloadable PDF provides food-for-thought for gatherers to develop practices that consider how they interact with the environment to preserve the ecosystem, the plant population, and the animals and insects that depend on those plants. Tips on sourcing herbs are included.
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  • $60 or 6 monthly payments of $12

Community & Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations

  • Course
  • 19 Lessons

Sometimes the only thing I've had in a desperate situation is the people and plants around me. Learn how I got through these situations to be more prepared for disasters through community and plant-based strategies for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. This course includes three live videos, online materials, and activities to help you hone your skills and prepare your mind, body and disaster kit.
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The Pollination Project provided seed funds to help us create media to promote resilience. We distributed 400 copies of the storing fresh produce guide at our local food bank,  supported the distribution and web presence for our local food guide, created an online seasonal gardening program. We then combined these sources and other programs into the ever-expanding toolkit for resilience below. TPP awards micro-grants daily to help projects get started, learn more.