Hi Community I am so incredibly excited and honored to be one of the trainers, along with @Jessica Jurcak in New Hampshire with the Forest Therapy Hub in September. This is an amazing opportunity and I am thrilled to be back in New England to connect to the land and the international community that is growing a science based moevent! Check it out! https://foresttherapyhub.com/summer-school-2026-usa/ He @Kirk Ward promised I would share.

Ok school community I have been swamped and a lot out of touch! As I wait in the airport for my delayed flight I am reflecting on what is important. I am grateful to all of you and for the community we are building together. What are you doing this summer to reset! What micro practices are you leaning into?

The Dojo and the Dirt: What Cultivating Resilience Actually Takes There is a man who shaped the way we think about resilience here at Hope Reimagined. His name is Tesfaye Tekelu, a trainer with the Strozzi Institute and someone I had the honor to work and learn along side at Destiny Arts Center. Today he lead the Strozzi Community Dojo—a practice space that brings us back to body, in relationship and growing together. This is an open free space and the link is attached. My relationship with Tes and what I have learned from him is deeply embedded in the NSIF. Today Tesfaye led us in practice to cultivate resilience. He reminded me it’s not a trait you either have or don’t. It is not toughness. It is not the ability to push through. It is something much more alive than that: the capacity to be moved by life and return to yourself. To be knocked off center—by grief, by conflict, by overwhelm, by joy—and to find your way back. Not perfectly. Not immediately. But reliably, over time. Resilience is not the absence of being shaken. It is the practiced ability to return. And that return is not a mental decision—it is a somatic one. The body knows the way back. We practice so that path becomes familiar. Within the Neuro-Somatic Integration™ Framework, we understand resilience as a nervous system capacity—not a personality trait, not a mindset, and not something you perform. It is built through patterned, rhythmic, embodied practice. It is built by presenting moments of joy and how they felt in your body,. By recalling in sensation the memories of those moments. It is not toxic positivity it is remembering viscerally authentic moments of joy that help us navigate day to day. Tes talked about resilience as a spring rather then a bucket and our somatic practice is to identify the blocks to resilience and to clear the path for it to flow in ways we can return to over and over again. 🌱 Micro-Practice: The Joy That Lives in Your Body Rather than a centering exercise, it becomes a guided somatic resourcing journey — walking the reader back into a real memory of joy through each sense, in sequence:

New time for Community practice! So sorry I have to push community practice to 9:30. I have a conflict that I need to meet! Thanks all I hope you will join me in an hour I really need the centering practice today so I will be there either alone or with you!!

I spent this morning reading the The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's report on the research on character, flourishing, and community wellbeing in the school. I attached the full report if you are nerdy like me and want to dive into some very interesting data. Than had Claude make a list of all the ways it supports the Neuro-Somatic Integration Framework and then wrote up this support of NSIF based on the research. It really got me excited about what we are building! I will post my writing in the Science and Theory course in the classroom. My plan is to launch a NSIF community of practice in the fall.