Resilience Circles
Multiplying our impact, this is how we spread resilience tools across the youth climate movement.
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Our flagship programme for young climate leaders, empowering them to activate resilience and spark sustainable change around the world.
Building Resilient Communities
Trained in pairs, the Resilience Fellowship moves participants through a transformational leadership journey, to not only sustain their own long-term climate action but to pass on the learnings to their peers.
Our train-the-trainer model equips young changemakers with the skills and tools required to deliver 8-10 week Resilience Circles at the local and international level – spreading tools for resilience throughout the climate activist community.
From marine biologists to community organisers, each Fellow is already creating impact in their communities. What unites them is a shared commitment to building a more just, kind and sustainable future.
All elements of the programme are fully-funded for all participants, including accommodation, food and travel expenses. Each Fellow also receives a stipend to honour their time and energy.
What’s Involved in the Resilience Fellowship?
Resilience Residential
We kick things off with our fully-funded, 5-day, off-grid Resilience Residential where participants learn practical tools to unlock resilience, avoid burnout, and keep showing up for people and planet.
Train the Trainer
During the Residential, participants are trained in pairs to co-host and co-design their own 8-10 week Resilience Circles helping spread resilience tools across the climate movement.
Intergenerational Mentoring
Fellows are matched with experienced climate leaders for 9 months of intergenerational mentoring. In this space, our Fellows will receive support, wisdom, and guidance from those who’ve walked the path before them.
Resilience Circles
Our Fellows take everything back to their community, delivering Resilience Circles to 10-15 other young changemakers. Meeting over 8-10 weeks, Circles are centred around location, identity or shared lived experience.
Multiplying Impact
During the Circles, participants are empowered through guidance and micro-grants to deliver a resilient intervention at community level — multiplying the impact of our Circle model.
Road to Facilitation
After completing our Fellowship, alumni get the chance to take part in further training that will allow them to get paid for facilitation workshops on behalf of The Resilience Project.
The Resilience Residential
“Magical”, “restorative”, “transformational”, “empowering.”
These are all words that people have used to describe their experience of our Resilience Residential, where Fellows are invited to join us for 5 days of fully-funded deep restoration in nature.
At the Residential, participants:
- Take part in workshops that teach them to unlock tools for resilience, explore climate emotions and support other changemakers
- Develop leadership and facilitation skills
- Find space for radical honesty and acceptance in a diverse new community of like-minded peers
- Learn how to set-up and host Resilience Circles in their own communities to help spread resilience tools across the climate movement
- Become a certified Mental Health First Aider and Climate Cafe facilitator
- Pause, recharge and have fun in nature
…And as if that wasn’t enough, our Residentials have been filled with wild swimming, camp fires, incredible food and lots and lots of joy!
The Resilience Project has bolstered my confidence in a way that nothing and no one ever had and my campaign work with Fridays For Future has improved drastically.
The Resilience Project was a transformative experience for me, arriving at a time when I truly needed it. It taught me that sustainable and meaningful work comes from honoring my feelings rather than suppressing them.
My time at the Resilience Residential was truly transformative. This experience has reaffirmed my belief in this project and the need for many more like it
Community Programmes
We create welcoming spaces where young leaders can slow down, share experiences, and support each other.
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