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Activate alchemical resilience with The Resilience Toolkit 2
The Resilience Toolkit 2 is for people ready to go further — whether you’re deepening your personal healing, exploring the path to becoming a Certified Facilitator, or simply eager to keep learning with Nkem Ndefo. This course invites you into a deeper relationship with your nervous system, your patterns, and your purpose — all within a broader context of justice, power, and collective healing.

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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
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Toolkit 2 was the nudge I needed to start a daily baseline practice. That alone made it worth it. But there was so much more—so many lightbulb moments, especially around appeasement. What the Toolkit has done for me isn’t about tolerating more, but building the capacity to push back and stay in difficult conversations. That creates so much possibility in my life and relationships.

Anonymous
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I’ve studied the nervous system for years—books, courses, you name it—but the Resilience Toolkit is by far the most effective. Toolkit 2 helped me break through blocks that kept me from using the tremor regularly, and that’s been a game changer. The section on appeasement? Everyone needs it.

Brielle Epstein
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Toolkit 2 felt essential to my continued growth and to understanding my social nervous system within the larger systemic and ideological context. I appreciated how we talked about power.

Anonymous
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I felt so much calmer this week. Things that used to make me anxious just… didn’t. I can’t say for sure it was the workshop, but I feel pretty certain that regular tremor practice has made a big difference. Now that I have the Toolkit to work with, I feel even more equipped to meet daily stress.

Anonymous

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
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I absolutely loved Toolkit 2. It deepened my understanding of alchemical resilience and strengthened my commitment to building capacity in myself. I could honestly live by Nkem's tagline: 'We get free together.

Lisbeth Pelsue
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This course was a perfect boost at the perfect time. It helped me remember how powerful these tools are and reinvigorated my commitment to practice. I also really appreciated hearing from other learners about how they apply the Toolkit in their lives.

Amy Kellestine
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The facilitation was stunning—questions were honored, recorded, and returned to thoughtfully throughout the course. The breakout groups and discussion prompts were incredibly helpful.

Anonymous
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I’m grateful for the tools Toolkit 2 provided to help me move through the emotionally uncomfortable parts of growth and transformation. As someone doing DEIA work, it also gave me better language to explain why a trauma-informed lens is essential in systems and organizational change.

Anonymous
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There is no doubt in my mind that these tools—this practice, this healing in community—can help bend the arc toward justice and liberation

Ti Wilhelm
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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.

Logo for The Resilience Toolkit with the text “Facilitator Certification Program” on a red-to-purple gradient background.

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:
  • 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

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.

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