This week on STPT, Danielle Holland is joined in conversation with Nkem Ndefo. Ndefo is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Together they explore adaptation, reclaiming resilience, and the joy of resistance. From transforming big and complex systems, to awareness in one's own body, Ndefo asks, when we are dismantling, what are we actually building?

"Letting the change be the gardener, the soil, the seed, the water, the fertilizer, the fruit, and the person eating the fruit. Every little bit is transformed in the act of changing." - Ndefo 

This week's episode reflects on bell hook's love ethic. By centering love, we practice it. With love, enjoy the show.   

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Licensed as a nurse-midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, consultant, and community strategist to innovative programs that address stress and trauma and build resilience for individuals, organizations, and communities across sectors, both in her home country (USA) and internationally. Nkem is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.