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Thriving Through the Holidays

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Thriving Through the Holidays Using the Community Resiliency Model with Laurie Strand

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)© trains community members to help themselves and others within their wider social network. The goal of the CRM is to create “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of chronic and/or everyday stress on the nervous system.

During this introductory session, participants will learn to use three strategies based on human biology and neuroscience to create new pathways that strengthen the ability to cope and bounce back faster when dealing with stress, and to grow the resilience that is already present.

The program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. The recording will be available until January 2, 2023. Click here to watch online.

This session will be led by national trainer, Laurie Strand, LCSW. Laurie is a licensed clinical social worker who developed Resiliency Rising, a consulting and educational organization focused on offering individuals and organizations tools to thrive in life. Using the research-based Community Resiliency Model, Resiliency Rising offers tailored support including group workshops, follow up consultation, and leadership support for schools, organizations, teams, individuals and employees to reach their full potential. The workshops offer tangible ways, based on cutting edge neuroscience, to increase overall wellbeing, leading to healthier individuals and organizations.

Nature Journaling with Leslie Rego 

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An intimate journey into the sketchbook world and how drawing can offer a moment of stillness and peace within an often chaotic world.

This weekly drop-in workshop offers a welcoming and supportive space for both beginners and seasoned sketchers to draw together. Focus will be on nature journaling, but any type of drawing is welcome. Prompts will be offered as well as guidance. Each session we will jump down a “rabbit hole” and study in depth one plant or landscape element or learn about different brushes, paints, papers, and other art supplies. Leslie will also show nature journals kept by different artists for inspiration.

For supplies bring a current sketchbook, if you are working in one, travel-size water color set and brush, or just a pencil or pen and paper. This workshop will run on two Thursdays: February 16 and 23. Drop-in; no registration required.

Leslie Rego has drawn in journals for years. She carries sketchbooks and paints with her while enjoying the national forest and will take time to draw and paint landscapes and flowers on her many hikes. Leslie wrote the “Sketchbook Hiking” article in The Weekly Sun for many years. She has artwork in private collections, The Sun Valley Lodge and around the world.    

Thriving Through the Holidays

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Using the Community Resiliency Model with Laurie Strand 

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM)© trains community members to help themselves and others within their wider social network. The goal of the CRM is to create “resiliency-focused” communities that share a common understanding of the impact of chronic and/or everyday stress on the nervous system.

During this introductory session, participants will learn to use three strategies based on human biology and neuroscience to create new pathways that strengthen the ability to cope and bounce back faster when dealing with stress, and to grow the resilience that is already present.

The program will be livestreamed and available to watch later. The recording will be available until January 2, 2023. Click here to watch online.

This session will be led by national trainer, Laurie Strand, LCSW. Laurie is a licensed clinical social worker who developed Resiliency Rising, a consulting and educational organization focused on offering individuals and organizations tools to thrive in life. Using the research-based Community Resiliency Model, Resiliency Rising offers tailored support including group workshops, follow up consultation, and leadership support for schools, organizations, teams, individuals and employees to reach their full potential. The workshops offer tangible ways, based on cutting edge neuroscience, to increase overall wellbeing, leading to healthier individuals and organizations.

Book Review: “A Thousand Ships”

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Kyla Merwin, Communications Manager, recommends A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes. 

War: Stratagems, combat, mortal wounds, loss, despair, weapons of destruction, endless days of boredom punctuated with heart-rending violence.  

These are the accoutrements of the women in Natalie Haynes’ inspired re-telling of the Trojan War. Fasten your seatbelts!

You’ll meet Penelope, wife of Odysseus; Helen, bearing the face that launched a thousand ships; the Amazon princess Penthesilea; Hecabe (Hecuba), mother to Hector and Paris; Iphigenia, sacrificed by Agamemnon (uh…her father). You’ll see these heroic women, and many more, as you’ve never seen them before—with tremendous depth and emotional lives as finely wrought as the hilt of a sword.  

You’ll also meet The Furies, three goddesses of vengeance and retribution; the nymph-goddess Thetis, mother of Achilles; and the bickering goddesses Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena, who fought over an apple engraved with the words, “to the fairest,” and started this whole fiasco. 

A Thousand Ships takes a deep dive into the trenches of conflict—between nations, rivals, individuals, and one’s own tumultuous desires. 

A Thousand Ships takes a deep dive into the trenches of conflict—between nations, rivals, individuals, and one’s own tumultuous desires. 

The author narrates the audiobook version of this title, and she is so so good – so good – that I chased her all the way into the podcast, “Natalie Haynes Stands up for the Classics.” Who knew she was a stand-up comedienne as well as a high-minded classicist and a dazzling storyteller? So, she’s brilliant, obviously, and dang bloody funny.  

But back to the book.  

Natalie’s rendition of the Trojan War begins as one woman wakes to an empty house in a city on fire. Troy has been betrayed and the city is being sacked by Greeks. Yes, those same Greeks who bore the gift of a Trojan horse (the fabled wooden statue hiding a pack of Greek warriors led by Achilles and Odysseus). The rest is history.  

But we’re not going forward; we’re going back, to watch the ten-year war unfold through the eyes of the women who forged their own mettle and waged fierce battles with all they had to give. 

Natalie Haynes weaves vivid tales of vastly different women into one beautiful, heart-breaking tapestry that redefines what it means to be thrust into the heart of war.  

Available in print, ebook, and eaudiobook.  

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