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.

ACCESS: Please take a COVID test before arriving and do not attend if symptomatic. Masking is mandatory - we will have some spare masks available at the venue. Full COVID policy will be shared via email once you have registered.If there are any access needs you'd like us to consider, please email info@healingjusticeldn.org.