An Introduction to The Resilience Toolkit With Nkem Ndefo

In this session, Nkem will offer an introduction to the Resilience Toolkit, focusing on embodied self-awareness as a foundation for liberatory relational and collective work. Experiential and reflective, with space for practice, observation, and sense-making, we will:

• Engage accessible body-based practices and structured inquiry to examine and shift the relationship between internal states and external conditions
• Explore how stress and trauma responses take shape across somatic, emotional, and cognitive domains
• Explore how discernment of their proportionality creates choicefulness and the ability to meet the moment in right action. 

Grounded in the first of 3 stages of trauma healing (stabilisation and resourcing) this work supports the capacity-building necessary before moving into individual and collective re-patterning and transformation. Together, participants will practise real-time regulation tools that harness the body’s innate biology to settle overactive and detrimental responses – reclaiming energy, creative flexibility and connection to ourselves, one another, and our shared liberation.