We, here in The Living Resilience Community Space, have been producing Resources, Support and Learning Groups, Courses and Practices for the Collapse-Aware and Collapse-Acceptant communities for a decade. Throughout those ten years the founder of the Post Doom No Gloom space and body of work, the now deceased, Michael Dowd, often repeated one particular question for me (Dean Walker, Founder of Living Resilience)... "Dean, What is it you actually do in the Living Resilience work?" Now it is with great joy that I'm offering some perhaps clearer detail to answer Michael's question. I've recently ..read more

This is Noam Chomsky recorded during a video conference in 2023. This is about as succinct and straight shooting as Noam gets. He offers his signature truth-telling aimed at the center of our global self-terminating culture. Noam is a living treasure. He has spoken Truth to power for decades. Unfortunately, Noam will likely die seeing the painful downhill slide of our global Business as Usual culture, which he has warned of for all those decades. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has truly taken ..read more

This is another in a yearlong series of interviews and panel discussions here in Living Resilience in support of our practice-based course, Islands of Sanity in a Mad World. This work of Living Resilience we often call it, The Inner Work of Collapse. These interviews are meant to be as much a conversation with folks from all walks of life as with actual mental health professionals. The assertion of our work here, is that we are living in a self-terminating, very mentally ill, global culture. So what are your strategies for reclaiming your own mental, emotional, relational and spiritual Center ..read more

* we recommend turning down the volume on this clip... it is a bit too loud at usual level... Here in Living Resilience we share a lot about different ways of healing, Self-Regulation, Co-Regulation, Breath, Movement, Full Expression, Meditation, Somatic Release Work... the list goes on. In this brief clip, assembled from the Instagram posting of South African healer, Candice Webster, we can see and feel the immense possibility for healing and Being when aligned horses and humans come together. Many thanks to Candice for her beautiful work. To find out about the Emotional, Physical, Psychologi ..read more

Here in Living Resilience we are very pleased to announce the launch of our yearlong course serving the Collapse-Aware and Collapse Acceptant communities... Islands of Sanity in a Mad World. This is a 13 month program which you are welcome to join at any time during or after our live sessions series, September 2024 through September 2025. __________________________ This session and the other one from today (part one) are clear, bold examples of what we call The Inner Work of Collapse. Each of us dug deep to share what we are really feeling in these challenging times. There is so much courage a ..read more

This is one of the recorded group sessions of our Living Resilience, Islands of Sanity in a Mad World course. This is Session #1 of 2 from Saturday November 16, 2024 - We strongly encourage you to watch session two as close as possible to your viewing this recording of session one. This is a course designed to expand our capacities to be fully present facing ever-growing stressors. It is intended to be of service to the world's Collapse Aware and Collapse-Acceptant communities. We like to call the work of Living Resilience, The Inner Work of Collapse. A slightly longer way to describe our work ..read more

This is a Saturday class session in our 12 month course, Islands of Sanity in a Mad World. (New participants are welcome at any point in the 12 months) On this Saturday in November 2024 we focused on our facility with generating a shared felt-sense of Coherence in a group setting - and our ability to share deeply our inner motivation..."What Matters Most to me at this time." These skills are especially useful when facing very large scale psycho-spiritual stressors - which, needless to say, are particularly abundant in these times. If you are interested in joining us here in Living Resilience i ..read more

This is the first of two Core Learning Pieces for this, the Third Month of this yearlong course for the Collapse-Aware and Collapse-Acceptant communities around the world. Islands of Sanity in a Mad World is meant to be a long-form experiential course offering skills and practices to expand our capacities to be present in the face of ever-growing stressors. This particular video is a set of admonitions from high-level, pioneering voices in this field of Seeing into the near future... followed by some additional suggestions for ratcheting up your practices at both the individual and group level ..read more

This is a Saturday class session in our 12 month course, Islands of Sanity in a Mad World. (New participants are welcome at any point in the 12 months) On this Saturday in October 2024 we focused on our facility with our Emotions or our Feeling Body. This is one of five core elements in our bodies and in our human experience that we aim to build and expand as we all step together toward our Predicament-laden future (and present.) If you are interested in joining us here in Living Resilience in our Online Community Space or any of our courses, including Islands of Sanity in a Mad World, read on ..read more

This is part of the Living Resilience course for the world's Collapse-Aware and Collapse-Acceptant communities. This 12 month course (new participants are welcome at any point) is designed to offer what we call, The Inner Work of Collapse. Having been born into this self-terminating, shadow-driven culture we all need some support and community within which we can expand our individual and collective capacities to Be Present in the face of ever-growing stressors. We offer live Zoom class sessions on the 1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month (two, one-hour classes on each Saturday, 9a-10a and 10 ..read more