Emergent Resilience is a collective dedicated to building human resilience for a climate changing world. Climate disruption is already affecting individuals, organizations and communities, and the scale and scope of those impacts will only increase over time. We believe that climate change is a symptom of deeper problems, which must be addressed if we are to respond appropriately to the challenges facing our world. We also believe that climate resilience is a skill that can be developed through education and practice. We are here to help you, your organization, and your community do just that.
ALEXIS SLUTzKY
Facilitator
Alexis is a community builder, council trainer, counselor, wilderness guide, and mentor. Alexis partners with individuals, communities, and organizations to create spaces of deep listening, authentic communication, and community ritual. Alexis is the founder of Wild Belonging and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Adjunct Faculty at Antioch University. She is an MFT and has trained with the School of Lost Borders, The Ojai Foundation, and Center for Council. Learn more about Alexis here.
JESS DEL POZO
Facilitator
Jess holds a PhD and is a licensed clinical psychologist with more than 20 years of experience helping individuals, professionals, and organizations integrate changes to improve wellness, reduce burnout, and enhance resilience. Jess writes the blog Being Awake Better and has a private practice in the beautiful Sierra foothills of Auburn, California near Sacramento. Read more about her at LemkeHealth.com.
KATY DION
Facilitator
Katy is a writer and Buddhist eco-chaplain devoted to facilitating experiences for people to heal their relationships with themselves, each other, and the earth. She is an ordained lay practitioner in the Soto Zen lineage and has trained with Tenshin Roshi and the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies. Her novel, The Dependents, has been translated into four languages. She brings more than twenty years of somatic exploration to her approach to the creative process, coaching, and facilitating. Learn more about Katy here.
KEVIN M. GALLAGHER
Director, Facilitator
Kevin is an attorney, author, and facilitator. He spent a decade in Washington, D.C. working on climate change, clean energy, and international peace building issues. He is a core member of the Council on the Uncertain Human Future and an organizing member of Sacred Activism, a think tank exploring the intersection of climate change and mindfulness. He has trained with the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, the Center for Council, School of Lost Borders, and the Work That Reconnects.
Sarah Ray
Facilitator
Sarah Jaquette Ray chairs and teaches in the Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt in California, where her scholarship focuses on environmental humanities, environmental justice, and climate psychology. Sarah is a mom, and is passionate about equipping the next generation with the existential tools they need to imagine, desire, and thrive in a climate-changed world. Sarah is author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (2020), among other titles. She has a PhD from the University of Oregon in Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy.
Kirsten Rudestam
Facilitator
Kirsten Rudestam is an environmental educator, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher. She has a PhD in Environmental Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied the relationships between water governance, meaning-making and environmental justice. She has fifteen years of experience teaching field-based and classroom-based college courses in environmental studies and sociology, is trained as a vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders, is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects and is a certified Wilderness First Responder.
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