In a time of intensifying social and ecological crises, in a cultural context of individualism, the pressure to practice "self-care," build "personal resilience," and "transform oneself" is pervasive. While "doing your own work" is important, we overemphasize the individual to the detriment of our human communities and the rest of the living world. The deep transformations we need will be cocreated, and the deep resilience we must develop will be relational. In this conversation, we will explore the dynamics of our strongest relationships, seeking to name the qualities and practices that underpin resilience. How can we bring our insights more intentionally and broadly to bear in our human relationships and in our relationships with our home—lands, waters, and ecosystems?

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Facilitator Christina deVillier is a parent, a writer, a podcast host, and a systems thinker innovating at the confluence of storytelling, regenerative land stewardship, and climate adaptation. Born, raised, and rooted in rural Northeast Oregon, Christina flexes her broad skillset cultivating abundance for all her neighbors: the human ones and the wild ones. Christina believes that the polycrisis currently unfolding reflects the breakdown of social-ecological relationships, and that reconnection is a labor of love that can begin at any time and joyfully, with hands in the soil and sustained attention. She delights in complexity. She pays attention to the pollinators in her garden and brings delicious food to multigenerational potlucks. Lately, she's trying to be more like a wetland.