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From Survival to Stability

An Introduction to The Resilience Toolkit

Discover how to transform reactive stress and trauma into responsive resilience in an increasingly overwhelming world.

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Imagine facing daily stresses or trauma triggers with the ability to stay calm, move through your emotions, and navigate challenges with greater ease.

Join us for a three-session introduction to The Resilience Toolkit, guided by renowned trauma expert and founder of Lumos Transforms, Nkem Ndefo. This inclusive workshop is designed for anyone looking to enhance their personal or professional lives. Learn an accessible, somatic approach to managing stress and healing from trauma, and take a meaningful step toward individual and collective freedom.

The Resilience Toolkit is the only programme we feel as an organisation we can wholeheartedly advocate for when we are asked by peers in the field of health, medicine and or social change on trauma or resilience training. We have yet to find another programme with the deep rigour, accessibility and cohesiveness that this programme offers. Each of the trainers are deeply embedded in the work and the richness is overflowing.

Farzana KahnExecutive Co-Director, Healing Justice London

This is filling a needed gap in today’s world of mindfulness!

Sophie

Before this class, if I was stressed out I would isolate myself from friends and family. Now that I have tools, it is easier to regulate/control my stress around people.

Anonymous

I very much enjoyed learning the simple yet effective body-based techniques taught in The Resilience Toolkit. Just a few motions and a few minutes to reset to a more balanced body and mind has very much helped soothe my day-to-day stresses and irritations.

Melanie Williams,Compliance/Regulatory Associate

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I can honestly say that this class has literally saved my life. I'm not sure how much longer I would have been able to keep coping with the pain, anxiety, depression, and high -stress levels that I've been living with for most of my life. Now, I actually have hope. In my health, my life, and my future.

Anonymous

From Survival to Stability introduces you to The Resilience Toolkit

Are you:

  • Feeling trapped in a cycle of stress and trauma?
  • Struggling to keep your head above water?
  • Seeking solid ground in a world of uncertainty?

You’re not alone. Many of us are carrying the weight of past traumas, current stressors, and an overwhelming sense of helplessness. But there is hope.

The path from surviving to thriving.

From Survival to Stability is the second in a sequence of offerings from Lumos Transforms centered around The Resilience Toolkit, a framework for personal healing and collective transformation used by individuals and organizations worldwide.

Not sure if The Toolkit is right for you? We recommend starting with our free class, Roadmap to Trauma Healing. Roadmap to Trauma Healing is not a prerequisite for taking From Survival to Stability but will give you a baseline understanding of stress and trauma and where you are on the trauma healing path.

This intimate, experiential class explores how stress affects the body, emotions, and relationships. With The Resilience Toolkit, you will:

  • Identify the sources of overwhelm in your life
  • Find immediate relief in practical techniques that honor cultural and historical experiences
  • Develop a personalized set of tools for ongoing stability
  • Create a foundation for long-term healing and growth
  • Cultivate more compassion for yourself and others
  • Grow the capacity to actively resist and transform systems and circumstances that inflict harm and trauma on individuals and communities
Choose your session here!

Meet your Facilitation Team!

Lead Facilitator

Nkem Ndefo, MSN, CNM, RN (she/they), is the founder of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit. She is a skilled practitioner, dynamic speaker, and valued strategist. She is known for her unique ability to connect with people of all types by holding powerful liberatory spaces, weaving complex concepts into accessible narratives, and creating synergistic and collaborative learning communities that nourish people’s innate capacity for healing, wellness, and connection.

Co-Facilitators

From Survival to Stability is a standalone offering that prepares you to independently practice The Resilience Toolkit.

Those seeking additional community and support can join The Alchemical Resilience Collective Practice Group.

Professionals seeking to integrate The Resilience Toolkit into their work can pursue the Facilitator Certification Program, joining a global community of Facilitators across North America, Europe, and Africa.

The Resilience Toolkit is meant for all body types and is easily adaptable for any fitness level or mobility challenge.

The Resilience Toolkit introduced me to techniques to help me connect more to my body. As much as I was experiencing severe anxiety, I wasn’t understanding how it was affecting my mind/body connection. Through compassion, understanding, enlightenment, and positive energy, I began to make that connection. I am now living a life with less anxiety than I had before. To me, that is a blessing.

Brian Goldman

The Resilience Toolkit helped me shift my paradigm from pathology to non-judgment. The acknowledgment of innate biological states and the tools offered to downregulate the nervous system are very profound. I’ve been practicing mindfulness and yoga for years and I see now that this trauma-informed piece had been missing.

Beth Quayle,Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

I am so grateful that this Toolkits exists the way it does. It’s straightforward without being abrasive, and simple to learn but undeniably potent and paradigm shifting. This is something I feel all types of organizations and persons could benefit greatly from. Something I wished I learned early on. Something that I feel is paving a lasting path of healing and liberation.

Ayla Rose

As a physical therapist, I am acutely aware of the effects of stress on my patients’ bodies. I had been searching for new tools to help patients (and myself) mitigate stress’ harmful patterns. Mindfulness practices seem to help, but something was missing. The Resilience Toolkit workshop was exactly what I was looking for. What a novel and enlightening approach to understanding stress! You will learn how to recognize your body’s manifestations of stress and what to do about it. Moreover, you will learn behavioral change techniques to allow you to consistently incorporate the Toolkit into your daily life. I am so grateful for this powerful, important, and much-needed information.

Chantal Donnelly,MPT

Our Commitment to Accessibility

Lumos Transforms wants to make sure everyone can take part in our programs. Our sliding-scale pricing helps you contribute in a way that is fair while considering current and historical inequity and your own identities. 
ACTUAL COST: $120
This ticket is for those who are able to pay the full rate or who are sponsored by an employer, community organization, or personal network.
PARTIALLY SUPPORTED: $60
This ticket is offered at a supported rate and is for those who cannot afford the full cost or do not have their registration sponsored.
FULLY SUPPORTED: FREE
This ticket is offered as a scholarship for those who are having trouble meeting their basic needs (housing, food, healthcare), and for whom paying for this class would be a financial hardship.
Here are some things to think about when choosing your ticket level.
  • Your race 
  • Your immigration status 
  • Your sexuality/gender identities
  • Your physical ability
  • Your education level
  • Your socioeconomic position or current income
  • How you may have benefitted from family wealth
  • Your power in your workplace or industry
  • Whether you are supporting your family financially or as a full-time caregiver
  • Whether you are located in the Global North or South
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Registration includes:

Live closed captioning is offered for the deaf and hard of hearing.

The framework used at:

LA County Health Services
healing justice ldn
SEIU-UHW
UC Berkeley
Office of Violence Prevention
Santa Barbara City College
Outdoor Afro
Color Congress
UnCommon Law
LA County Department of Public Health
Embody Lab

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