Resilience Training for Space Holders

Rooted & Ready: A resilience toolkit to support yourself and others in challenging times

Starting Tuesday 11th November 2025

5 weekly online gatherings at 7.30pm

What is the course?

A toolkit for our times to support yourself and others. A five week crash course in valuable life tools that will help you feel more rooted in what strengthens, supports and resources you and more ready to face whatever challenges might come your way. This will help you, in turn, to support others with greater steadiness, empathy and clarity. We will explore frameworks and practices that will help you and others to regulate your nervous system, deepen support networks, navigate overwhelm, find meaning in adversity, shift mindsets and activate hope. Evidence-based resilience tools have been shown to reduce the risk of depression, stress and anxiety, while also strengthening people’s capacity to cope with adversity.

Who is it for?

This course is for anyone who wants to build their resilience so they can strengthen, flow and grow in the face of life’s challenges. It’s also designed for those who hold space for others - whether as facilitators, leaders, carers, teachers, coaches or peers - and want to develop embodied tools and practices that support resilience and wellbeing for both individuals an groups.

The practices and framings we will explore will not only nurture your own wellbeing, but also equip you with resources to share and support others, personally and professionally. One of our intentions in offering this course online is to make the work we do at Change in Nature more accessible for those who may not be able to commit to a residential retreat.

What will you come away with?

Our objectives are to help you:

  • Start or deepen a resilience practice to help you navigate life’s challenges in a more skilled and resourced way;

  • Increase your capacity to withstand, deal with and recover from challenging situations;

  • Develop resourcing, self-clearing and grounding tools to sustain your capacity to hold space for others and reduces the risk of burnout;

  • Explore frameworks to activate hope which can address feelings of anxiety, despair and uncertainty about the future;

  • Learn tools and practices that you can share with others - both in a personal and professional capacity;

  • Connect with a like-minded community for on-going support, learning and inspiration.

When?

All our gatherings will be 7.30 to 9pm UK time on the following Tuesday evenings:

  • 11th November

  • 18th November

  • 25th November

  • 2nd December

  • 9th December

An Introductory Video…

  • "I feel empowered, replenished, resourced and deeply connected."

  • "It has given me so much richness in my community and my life. Life changing."

  • "After so much alone time recently, it has restored, replenished & reset me."

What we will be exploring….

  • Week One: Roots of Resilience

    - What is resilience?

    - Stories to learn, grow and thrive in challenging circumstances.

    - The psycho-biology of trauma, stress and dysregulation.

  • Week Two: Sense and Sensibility

    - The practice of presencing: becoming aware of and regulating physical sensations, emotions and thoughts in the present moment.

    - Exploring the Resilient Growth Zone.

    - Designing your own Emotional First-Aid Kit.

  • Home Practice: Webs of Support

    - Calling on personal skills, resources and support networks.

    - Deepening relationships with others.

    - Inspiration and support from nature.

  • Week Three: Strengthening through Storms

    - Adversity as a catalyst to find new meaning and direction.

    - Shifting your story and the growth mindset.

    - The power of gratitude and activating hope.

  • Week Four: Navigating Overwhelm

    - Managing modern madness.

    - Strategies for when it all gets too much.

    - Safeguarding your energy and creating boundaries of meaning.

  • Week Five: Towards Thriving

    - Integrating into your life.

    - The growth model of transformative resilience.

Facilitator: Andy Raingold

Andy is a facilitator, speaker, coach and social entrepeneur who inspires transformative change. He has been guiding immersive nature experiences and personal development programmes since founding Change in Nature in 2015. He is a certified trauma-informed resilience practitioner (with the Association of Coaching) having trained with Chris Johnstone (co-author of Active Hope with Joanna Macy). Click here for full bio.

“Caring, Supportive, Challenging”.

Paul (July 2017)

“A wonderful safe space in which to explore, experiment and develop.”

Jenna (May 2020)

Book now to secure your place

Many of our training courses have been oversubscribed in the last few years, so early booking is recommended

Rooted and Ready
Rooted and Ready
from £130.00

  • We are currently offering early bird places with £100 saving on the full course fee. Book now and pay £160 (£130 for low income).

  • Let us know if you would like to pay in instalments.

  • TIME COMMITMENT: Each session is 2 hours and there is an estimated 1 hour of coursework in between sessions each week. All the sessions are recorded, so you can catch up if you cant make it live (although please aim to be present for at least three sessions).

  • Please read our terms and conditions before booking.

  • "I wish everyone had access to this. There is an immesurable ripple effect as we return to our lives."

  • "Both restorative and reinvigorating. I feel a new sense of vitality and hope as I grow into a new mindset."

  • "Change in Nature is bringing life-changing and community-transforming skills to the world."