What we do

We design live community learning experiences that combine crisis research, experiential education and disaster response to foster social resilience, and work with community organizations to get them to local communities.

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From fire to flood, pandemic to power outage, community crises increasingly affect everyday life. Official response systems strive to prepare and respond, but cannot be everywhere, instantly. Individuals and communities must be ready to help themselves.

Most people believe that being ready starts with functional resilience: having the knowledge of exactly what to do and a stockpile of supplies before a crisis happens.

We don’t.

We believe that being ready starts with social resilience: having the skills and mindsets needed to improvise with the people and resources at hand when a crisis happens.

We are developing a new approach to community training that strengthens social as well as functional resilience. Our learning experiences help individuals and communities prepare to be unprepared by providing them with opportunities to experience some of the chaos and confusion of a crisis, practice improvising, and discover what they can accomplish with the people and resources that happen to be available.

Individuals and communities recover from crisis faster and better when they help themselves. We envision a world where every community crisis is met with people who act, improvise, and overcome together. Because crisis doesn’t wait for them to be prepared.

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