{"title":"Liz DeMattia","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"ready-set-resilience-activity-booklet","title":"Ready, Set, Resilience: Activity Booklet","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can ecology teach us about resilience?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcology is the study of the environment—its systems, interactions, and patterns. You don't have to dig far into the field of ecology to realize that nature has much to teach us humans!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometimes, studying nature can expand our creative capacity, like when engineers and designers use the principles of biomimicry to invent new technologies and solve human problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther times, studying ecology can expand our emotional capacity—a sort of biomimicry for the spirit. Take, for example, a study of nature's resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ecology, resilience is the ability to adapt to or recover from a disturbance that disrupts how life usually operates. You've seen ecological resilience at work, even if you didn't realize it at the time! A flower thriving in a sidewalk crack has persisted in a less-than-ideal growing situation. A gull that leaves a flooded nest and finds a new home has recovered after a disaster. A fish that learns to avoid fishing nets has found a way to live alongside human technology. All of those are examples of ecological resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat adaptive \"can do\" spirit that defines ecological resilience can inspire personal resilience, too. Exploring ecological resilience in story form, like in the fables that accompany this workbook, allows readers to see the mechanics of resilience: the realization of a bad situation, the decisive \"I can find a way\" moment, the gathering of community resources, the temporary discomfort of change, and ultimately the opportunity to thrive in a new situation. Studying ecological resilience in this way helps readers imagine how they, too, could adapt, change, persist, and thrive, no matter what life throws at them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut resilience takes work: it's true for nature and it's true for humans. The activities in this booklet will help introduce the roots of personal resilience, so that readers practice resilience, and then are ready to do the work of resilience when life calls for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can use the activities on their own or in conjunction with the fables. 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Our kids are suffering and just need mentors who can connect with them and talk to them. Can your Duke students help?\" I knew our volunteer marine lab students could help. But I also knew I needed help to train our students to be more than just science educators: they needed to learn how to be mentors too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, I reached out to the wonderful Dr. Patrick Jeffs (CEO of the Resiliency Solution) and together we developed a Resilient Mentor training program called \u003ci\u003eReady, Set, Resiliency\u003c\/i\u003e. As part of the resilient mentor training program, we created an assignment where we challenged the Duke students to find examples in nature that highlighted the roots of personal resiliency. They were more than up for the challenge, and that assignment turned into one of the most creative and profound discussions of the mentor training.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the training ended, Patrick and I realized that the resilience assignment was a seed of something bigger, that we needed to harness the power of nature and create nature stories to augment the resilience training. But it was 2020, and sometimes even great ideas can suffer from COVID! The idea needed a catalyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuckily we found that catalyst in Aurora (Rory) McCollum, author of \"Live Oak and the Wind\". In the summer of 2022, Rory worked with the Community Science Initiative to transform the resilience training program Patrick and I had begun into a middle school curriculum. One part of the larger curriculum involved Rory working with three undergraduate students from Duke University Marine Lab's DukeEngage 8-week summer service learning program to write nature and resilience fables that would serve as primary sources for the curriculum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fables used the art of story to show resilience in action - they brought the abstract concept of personal resilience to life in concrete, relatable ways. When our curriculum team of teachers listened to the fables, they created english, science and history lesson plans to compliment the fables. And then, during the 2021-2022 school year, they taught our co-created curriculum with the fables to their middle school students. As it turned out, this fresh approach invited students into conversations about personal resilience and lit up their classrooms. And when we got back together in May of 2022, the teachers urged us to keep them coming-to write more and publish them in a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so that's just what we did! More DukeEngage service learning students wrote more nature fables and we had the luck of finding Susanna Klingenberg as an editor (we could not have done this without her!). Just like Ollie couldn't feed himself without his pod, we couldn't have made this book without our pod. Thank you to all of the pod who provided support and helped \"feed\" this book: Leslie Babinski, Lisa Campbell, Alice Carrol, Robert Condie, Mary Katherine Dufour, Jessica Emory, Lindsey Fodrie, Stacy Ham, Kayla Ipock, Patrick Jeffs, Charlotte Johnson, Kathryn Lienhard, Aurora McCollum, Andy McCollum, Cristina Quattrone, Max Smith, Kathryn Stevenson, Matthew Turpin, and Betsy Vorster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust like Gustav helped Gilbert find fish in new ways; we hope Quint, Ollie, Gilbert, Terry, Sammy, Shelly, Finn, Antoinette, and\/or Betty can help you \"fish\" in ways that nourish you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Community Science Initiative","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49464454086973,"sku":"9798990199705","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/35c316aefee6b2a3d865fde6cb1e29b1_9f761fee-0260-4a9c-a28d-5a9691a1f8e0.jpg?v=1728914206"},{"product_id":"doblarse-con-el-viento-una-coleccion-de-fabulas-de-la-naturaleza-1","title":"Doblarse con el Viento: Una Colección de Fábulas de la Naturaleza","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoblarse con el viento: una colección de fábulas de la naturaleza\u003c\/i\u003e ilustra la resiliencia desde la perspectiva de la naturaleza en sí, dándole voz a las plantas y los animales cuyas comunidades los apoyan en la adversidad. ¡Acompáñanos y explora la fortaleza comunitaria en el mundo natural con estos relatos reflexivos, inspiradores (y muchas veces chistosos)! Leerás sobre el árbol Terry, que aprovecha la extensa red micorriza para ayudarle a asegurar recursos; el encino Quint, cuyos vecinos le ayudan a doblarse y no quebrarse en un huracán; el mero Gilberto, que aprende a pescar con la ayuda de un viejo sabio y con cirrípedos; y muchos más.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLos estudiantes del Laboratorio Marino de la Universidad de Duke redactaron las fábulas al momento de coproducir el programa de resiliencia para estudiantes de secundaria, \u003ci\u003eReady, Set, Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eEn sus marcas, listos, resiliencia\u003c\/i\u003e) con los maestros del condado de Carteret, NC. 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