Resources for resilience
We are living through a convergence of crises—social, ecological, political, and relational—that cannot be met with certainty or individuality alone. To help us meet these times, we’re sharing some of the ways and voices that have shaped us: teachers, elders, writers, organizers, and communities who help us stay present in complexity—offering practices of listening, grieving, gathering, and responding without hardening or collapsing.
The resources below include individuals and organizations we turn to for wisdom, grounding, and guidance when the ground feels unstable.
This is not an exhaustive list, nor a prescription. It is a shared field of nourishment: frameworks for making sense of unraveling, practices for staying in relationship, and voices that remind us we are not alone in the work of grief, repair, and reimagining.
We offer these freely, with gratitude, and with the hope that you’ll find something here that meets you where you are—whether you’re seeking language, practice, perspective, or simply companionship in these times.
SITES (FREE)
Clearing the Field: A relational protocol for navigating systemic unraveling together [Draft Google Doc LINK] - Shared by Vanessa Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity
Stanford Social Innovation Review [Several Free Downloads - PDFs and Articles - LINK] - Several peer review articles ranging from Vanessa Andreotti to Camille Sapara Barton on varying topics related to “Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds” Note: this content is “sponsored” by https://changeelemental.org/
Rewiring 4 Reality: Cross-Generational Reckonings: [Website LINK] - Shared by Vanessa Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity
Emergen(t)cy Resources for Resistance in the US and Supporting the People of Iran [Google Doc LINK] - Created and shared by Lydia Violet via The School for The Great Turning based on Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects
Anti-Carceral Crisis Support [Google Doc LINK] Note: Some of these are MA based. This was created by someone who is a licensed therapist in MA and a participant of the Grief Guide Training Cohort of 2025, via The Grievery
The Work That Reconnects [website LINK] - Inspired by the work of Joanna Macy.
The School for The Great Turning [website LINK] - Inspired by Joanna Macy’s work and led by her apprentice and skilled facilitator and community leader, Lydia Violet.
Upaya Zen Center [website LINK] - Led by elder Roshi Joan Halifax. This is a Zen Buddhist community welcoming all traditions. They offer daily free meditations and regular dharma teachings for free as well.
BOOKS (some free, some for purchase or perhaps a library near you)
Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse [LINK] - written by Kazu Haga. A compassionate exploration of trauma, resilience, and collective healing, offering practices for staying open and grounded amid personal and societal breakdown.
Hospicing Modernity [LINK] - written by Vanessa Andreotti. A framework that’s inspired our work at The Grievery. A powerful invitation to grieve and release the harmful foundations of modernity while imagining more life-affirming ways of being, relating, and knowing, especially when answers aren’t readily available.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow [LINK] - written by Fancis Weller. The primary framework of grief that informs all of our work at The Grievery. A guide to embracing grief as a source of connection, meaning, and ecological belonging in a world facing profound loss.
The Work That Reconnects [LINK] - written by Joanna Macy. Offers inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of suffering. This, especially some of the ritual practices, have also inspired our work at The Grievery.
The Power Manual [LINK] written by Cyndi Suarez. Suarez shines a light on how power plays out relationally and identifies strategies that can help to rebalance relationships both internally in your organizations and networks, and externally with those with whom you must negotiate for change.
A pocket guide for facing down civil war [PDF Download via this landing page LINK] - Created and made available by author John Paul Lederach
Conversation guide for the above e-book [PDF Download LINK] - Also created by John Paul Lederach
INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INSPIRING AND VISIONARY
Nkem Ndefo – somatic abolition, resilience, and embodied justice
Kaira Jewel Lingo – mindfulness, nonviolence, and spiritual activism
Autumn Brown – grief, ancestral memory, and liberatory practice
adrienne maree brown – emergent strategy, pleasure activism, relational change
Kazu Haga – restorative justice, nonviolence, and healing-centered organizing
Priya Parker – the art of gathering, practical tools, and meaningful convening
Alixa Garcia – imagination, grief, and visionary cultural work
Casper ter Kuile – belonging, ritual, and creating community beyond religion
Parker J. Palmer – elder, lessons from depression, and lessons from Shaker community
John Paul Lederach – elder, conflict transformation and peacebuilding
Staci Haines – generative somatics, trauma healing, and collective liberation
john a. powell – elder, othering and belonging, systems change, racial justice
Radha Agrawal – intentional community and modern belonging practices
Holly Truhlar – politicized grief leader and transformative facilitation
Rebecca Solnit – truth-teller, former journalist, author, holds a candle of hope
Lydia Violet – song, ritual, and grief as communal medicine
Max Dashu – women’s history, myth, and suppressed cultural memory
Krista Tippett – spiritual inquiry and creator of OnBeing Podcast
Perdita Finn – everyday ritual, magic, and conversations with the unseen
Sophie Strand – myth, ecology, animist imagination and chronic illness
Francis Weller – author, grief, soul work, and communal healing
Bayo Akomolafe – posthuman thought, uncertainty, and decolonial imagination
Sharon Blackie – elder, mythic ecology, place-based belonging, and rewilding
Desiree Adaway – equity, trauma-informed practice, and relational culture
YK Hong – care ethics, mutual aid, and collective survival strategies
