Resilience in Practice: Tools for Healing and Renewal
Resilience in Practice
Tools for Healing and Renewal
Presented by: Ali W. Rothrock
Wednesday, January 28th - 7:00pm EST
Wednesday, February 25th - 7:00pm EST
Wednesday, March 25th - 7:00pm EST
This workshop is a 3-part series to support those seeking renewed resilience, grounding, and connection. Through a supportive blend of education, reflection, and practical tools, we will explore what recovery can look like at any stage of the healing process. Participants will learn approachable strategies for managing stress, strengthening emotional wellbeing, and cultivating a sense of stability and agency.
Each session creates space for personal insight and community connection, offering a calm, compassionate environment for growth. Together, we will explore how resilience is built over time—through small choices, supportive practices, and the shared understanding that healing is not linear. This series invites participants to reconnect with their own strength and to move forward with greater clarity and hope.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain trauma-informed tools to regulate their stress responses
- Strengthen their family and community resilience practices
- Understand and process survivor’s guilt in ways that foster connection and meaning
- Leave with concrete strategies and rituals that support ongoing healing
Resilience in Practice: The 3 R’s of Resilience
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 - 7:00pm EST
This first session - The 3 R’s of Resilience: Regulate, Resource, Ritual - offers a practical introduction to building resilience from the inside out. Survivors often feel powerless in the face of ongoing stress. This foundation is essential and provides a framework with simple, actionable steps to reclaim stability.
Key Topics:
- Regulation: Understanding and supporting the nervous system during and after stress
- Resource: Identifying inner and outer supports that help us recover
- Ritual: Creating grounding practices that restore agency and connection
Takeaway: A personalized “resilience map” for daily use
Resilience in Practice: Resilient Families
Wednesday, February 25th - 7:00pm EST
The second session focuses on Resilient Families: Strength in Connection. Resilience doesn’t just live in individuals - it’s woven into the fabric of families and communities. This session explores how connection can help us withstand and heal from trauma. Recovery happens not only in individuals but in the spaces between us.
Key Topics:
- How trauma and resilience ripple through family systems
- Intergenerational patterns and inherited resilience
- Tools for communication, boundary setting, and mutual regulation
Takeaway: Strategies for building family rituals and support structures that promote healing together
Resilience in Practice: Survivor’s Guilt
Wednesday, March 25th - 7:00pm EST
The third and final session focuses on Survivor’s Guilt: Moving from Burden to Belonging. Survivor’s guilt is a common and often unspoken part of the aftermath of trauma. This session creates space for naming it, understanding it, and moving toward integration. Survivor’s guilt is often carried in silence, but working through it can be a powerful step toward healing and post-traumatic growth.
Key Topics:
- Psychological and physiological roots of survivor’s guilt
- Reframing guilt as evidence of connection and care
- Meaning-making practices that honor both survival and loss
Takeaway: Tools for integrating guilt into a broader story of resilience and community
About the Presenter
Ali W. Rothrock
Founder & CEO
On the Job and Off
Ali W. Rothrock is an author, educator, and nationally recognized speaker who has spent two decades transforming her story into a catalyst for change. As the Founding Executive Director of The On the Job and Off Foundation, Ali leads national efforts to build resilience for those who serve.
A former firefighter/EMT and now a sought after crisis counselor, she has delivered more than 500 presentations, including a TEDxTalk. She is the author of After Trauma: Lessons on Overcoming from a First Responder Turned Crisis Counselor (Broadleaf Books, 2022) and holds advanced degrees in trauma, crisis counseling, and disaster mental health.