The Art of Resilience

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

Build Resilience

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

The mission is to prevent and ease trauma and burn-out by cultivating fortitude, pluck, and post-traumatic growth while accommodating the the ways in which we are all unique individuals.

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 emerges 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

Workshops & Online Resources

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All in-person workshops have been moved to this page.

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Online resources include downloads and online courses.
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Community & Herbal Approaches to Disaster Situations

Course

Sometimes all I've had in a desperate situation is the people and plants around me. My lessons learned show you how to be more prepared for disasters through community and herbal strategies for disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. Course includes a webinar, two virtual scenarios, online materials, and activities to help you hone your skills, prepare your mind and body, and create a disaster plan.

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2027 - Community Herbal Intensive 1: Getting Grounded

Course

The Community Herbal Intensive is a 9-month program focusing on plant identification, herbal techniques, herbal safety, and assessment techniques based on traditional and conventional approaches to herbalism. Includes 6 in-person sessions, 8 video meetings, 4 text books/ebooks, monthly lessons on plants and healing, study guides + optional quizzes for those who are building an herbal resume.

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Health & Safety Kits

Course

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

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Herbal Resilience in Uncertain Times

Course

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

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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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Regenerative Foraging and Ethical Sourcing

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"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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Art of Resilience: Seasonal Gardening

Course

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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Art of Resilience: How to Store Fresh Fruits & Vegetables

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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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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.