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What to Expect
In Toolkit 2, you’ll go beyond the basics — exploring what gets in the way of regular practice, how trauma responses like hypervigilance and appeasement show up in daily life, and how to shift into sustained healing and greater internal authority.
You’ll leave with:
- Clearer understanding of your own activation patterns
- Tools for navigating chronic stress and “sticky” trauma responses
- A deeper relationship with your North Star (your personal why)
- Stronger capacity to discern discomfort from real unsafety
- Insight into the role of power and hierarchy in trauma and healing
- Support to build and sustain your daily practice
This is your next step if you:
- Want to keep building momentum after From Survival to Stability
- Feel curious about the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification and want a deeper taste before committing
- Love learning from Nkem and don’t want to miss a chance to study with them live
With Toolkit 2, you’ll get more knowledge, more personal exploration, more opportunities for sharing and connection, and more space for relaxation and rest.
The Resilience Toolkit 2 – Course Outline
SESSION 1
Nurturing Your North Star
Revisit your Toolkit journey, identify what’s been blocking regular practice, and reconnect with your North Star. Learn how safety, structure, and support work together to create the conditions for consistency — and why willpower alone isn’t enough.
SESSION 2
Calming Hypervigilance, Strengthening Discernment
Explore how chronic hypervigilance and attentive immobility shape your nervous system, relationships, and sense of safety. Learn to recognize these patterns in real time and practice distinguishing between discomfort and actual danger — in your body and in your environment.
SESSION 3
Unpacking Appeasement and Reclaiming Power
Dive into how appeasement functions as a survival strategy in the face of social hierarchies and power dynamics. Begin to gently unwind internalized patterns of compliance, expand your capacity for choice, and imagine new ways of relating — with yourself, with others, and with the world.
Thinking About Certification?
If you’re considering the Resilience Toolkit Facilitator Certification, this course is a powerful stepping stone. It deepens your understanding, sharpens your self-awareness, and prepares you to step into the 56-hour professional training with confidence and clarity.

Each session includes:
- Live instruction with Nkem
- Guided Toolkit practice (including therapeutic tremor)
- Personal reflection
- Small group connection
- Moderated Q&A
Pricing & 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.
FAIR: $200
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: $100
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 which ticket to purchase:
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Your race
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Your immigration status
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Your sexuality/gender identities
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Your physical ability
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Your education level
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Your socioeconomic position or current income
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How you may have benefitted from family wealth
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Your power in your workplace or industry
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Whether you are supporting your family financially or as a full-time caregiver
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Whether you are located in the Global North or South
Meet Your 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.