The Resilient Activist Speakers Bureau offers educational and inspiring presentations and workshops designed to help audiences better understand ways they can create a healthier planet while nurturing themselves.
An Introduction to the Resilient Activist
These presentations offer an overview of climate anxiety and ecological grief and simple practices that are hopeful and imbued with self-care:
- For Activists offers resilience tools for the activist who feels overwhelmed, fearful, or anxious about the climate crisis and the accompanying social injustices that impact the most vulnerable populations.
- For Communities Who Care helps participants understand the emotional impact of the climate crisis and sheds light on action steps and self-care tools that will make a vital difference.
- Resilience, Optimism, and Hope in Response to the Climate Crisis explores the concept of the fight/flight/flee reaction to climate anxiety and offers simple ways to shift into the relaxation response for clarity, innovation, and a new paradigm in being with our new reality.
Five Essentials for a Resilient World
These presentations bring thoughtful intention to living in supportive connection with Earth.
Five Essentials for Earth-Care presentations offer simple concepts to help you understand, make decisions, and take action in ways that benefit humans, non-humans, and our planet’s ecosystems.
One of the most important ways to explore the Five Essentials is as a reflection on your well-being through mind, body, and spirit; learn how to nurture yourself while nurturing Earth.
Business for Good programs bring the Five Essentials into the corporate environment. Consumers want their purchases to be aligned with their earth-aware values; this program gives a clear picture of action steps that will meet this consumer-defined need while enhancing the bottom line.
4 Steps for a Resilient Life
Based on the blog post, “Reflecting on Embodied Activism and Overwhelm” our Speakers Bureau offers interactive workshops to increase those “Activist” actions that feel good or are easy to do and to reduce, reframe, or release/remove activities that make you feel weighed down and distraught. Step 1: Review; Step 2: Rejoice; Step 3: Reflect; Step 4: Reimagine
Taking Meaningful Action Through Political Engagement
This presentation offers a guide for engaging in our political system to effect positive change in a joyful, self-caring, and sustainable way. We present activism as part of self-care, and self-care as part of activism. We believe that we will draw more people to our cause if we are energized, engaged, and joyous in our activism.
This presentation is intended for two audiences:
- those who want to meaningfully engage in our political system to support, nurture, and protect what they hold dear, but aren’t sure where to begin, and
- those who are already taking political action and want to add resilience, but are not sure how.
Transformation of a Superfund Site to a Pollinator Habitat
Hear the inspiring and unique story of the Pollinator Prairie, situated in an older neighborhood in Olathe, Kansas, and how it was transformed from a toxic waste Superfund Site to an Ecological Habitat.
You’ll learn:
- The history of the property and the remediation process
- How this devastated parcel of land was revitalized to support pollinators while providing a delightful neighborhood pocket park for the public
- The role of the K-State Johnson County Extension Master Naturalists in maintaining the gardens and restoring habitat at the site
- How to install a simple, no-dig native garden at home to benefit butterflies, bees, birds, dragonflies, and more
Our Homes and Sustainable Interior Design
Presentations are offered to homeowners and renters, as well as interior designers and builders. Based on the Five Essentials for a Resilient World, we can customize an event for your audience. Topics include:
- Creating Pollinator Habitat at Home: Gardening for Wildlife
- Bringing Nature In
- Planet Conscious Design Modalities
Mindfulness for a Resilient World
These programs explore the connection between environmental activism and social justice, through the resilient lens of mindfulness practices imbued with deep nature connection. This presentation includes meditation concepts and a guided meditation practice through the Five Essentials for a Resilient World.
Mindfulness in Nature Retreats
These retreats are hosted in a natural setting where participants can receive all the benefits of time spent in nature! Programming includes an exploration through all the senses, mindfulness practices, and an embodied connection to the natural world.
Bring Deep Nature Connection to Outdoor Interpretation
This workshop offers simple tips and tricks for those who engage the public in experiencing the awe and majesty of the natural world.
This workshop includes:
- mindfulness practices and nature-connection activities;
- the ecopsychology perspective on more than our five senses in nature;
- proactive ways to alleviate fears of nature;
- techniques that use nature to support environmental activists through their ecoanxiety and climate grief.
