Radical Resilience: Cultivating Hope
Learn a fresh approach - actively work with hope as the antidote to despair and the challenges of our times.
#100DaysofHope
A Hundred-Day Hope Skill-Building Practice
September 23-December 31, 2024
***Registration will be open through October 1st.
Hope is not a passive feeling. Hope is not a promise. Hope need not be fleeting.
Hope is the antidote to despair.
Hope is an active process connected to our thoughts and our actions.
Hope can move us from a state of challenge or despair to resilience.
Join me for Radical Resilience: Cultivating Hope, a 100 day practice where you will discover that hope is not an accident; hope does not just happen. Come to know hope as a skill that can be learned, developed, and improved over time. Hope is one of the individual skills we can develop to equip ourselves—balancing overwhelm and managing challenging times.
September 23rd marks 100 days remaining in 2024. 100 days is a little over three months and just less than 15 weeks. Imagine how you might grow a hope practice over 100 days. Begin 2025 equipped with fresh hope to fortify you in the face of despair and/or challenge.
Registration for the 100 Days of Hope practice includes:
A kick-off call on Monday September 23rd. We’ll come together for half an hour, say hello to each other, and I’ll share how to get the most out of the 100 day practice. We will meet on zoom with closed captioning enabled. Not able to join the kick-off call live? A replay will be sent to all registrants.
Twice weekly emails will be sent on Monday and Thursday. You can expect a short weekly teaching with tips and optional practices. I’ll also collate community learnings and ah-ha moments and share my own practice journey.
Email format will vary, including writing, video, and audio (sometimes combined).
Content will mix data-driven approaches, frameworks for practical application, and reflection questions to guide you on your own hope exploration.
Emails will be a steady drip to infuse your focus on hope and the development of a hope-full practice. Links to additional readings and resources will be provided throughout the 100 days for those interested in deepening their learning and practice.
The building blocks for 100 Days of Hope practice:
Hope Seeker: During this phase, you learn an everyday framework to hone your noticing skills, identify your natural hope alerts, and attune yourself to hope signals.
Hope Builder: In this phase you will cultivate your capacity to fine-tune your hope muscle, understand what is hope adjacent, and increase your hope skill strength.
Hope Dealer: As part of this phase you will solidify the hope habits that suit your current needs, and provide a balance to life’s despair, to develop your own hope rituals.
The 100 Days of Hope practice will suit those seeking to improve their skills and well-being. It is a way to grow resilience and add another tool to your emotional toolbox for managing challenging times.
Are you not quite ready for a new skill or a deeper dive? That’s okay. For the hope curious and those seeking inspiration alone, you’ll find something useful here.
The only requirement for participation is an email address.
A helpful mindset is one that is open to the idea of hope as a possibility, and as a helpful skill for building a better future.
Your Investment
Time: The 100 Days of Hope practice can be completed on your own schedule, and with as much or as little time as you can allocate. For optimal outcomes, consider allocating 15-30 minutes twice a week to review email content and reflect.
Registration: All registrations receive the same course content and access. Tiered contributions are offered to increase accessibility to Radical Resilience: Cultivating Hope. Choose your contribution:
$37 Contributor (this tier suggested for those in need of financial support to register)
$57 Maintainer (this tier pays for your spot)
$77 Sustainer (this tier pays for your spot and helps support another)
Registration is meant to be a commitment, not a barrier. If cost would keep you from participating, please email ImpactForGoodLLC@gmail.com.
About Shannon
Hi! I am Shannon Weber (she/her). I thrive holding space for leaders, organizations, and communities in transition to imagine equitable solutions and create impact. People appreciate my systems thinking, empathetic approach to tackling complex challenges, and ability to connect people, ideas, and efforts.
Inspired by Mariame Kaba’s teaching that hope is a discipline, I began a deep inquiry into hope in early 2024 through a creative partnership with my radical friend Mary Freer. The practice grew intimate and the learnings profound. I wondered how we might learn more about cultivating hope within community. I created Hope Factory and presented it as a participatory Work in Progress at Four Chicken Gallery. During my residency, the community asynchronously mapped their collective despair and hope, along with practices for moving between them, through an interactive display. Through this installation and community feedback, I further developed the framework and practices to be shared during Radical Resilience: Cultivating Hope.
I am devoted to our connections with each other and what it takes for us to show up in the big and small ways that create meaning amidst change. I wrote Show Up Hard: A Road Map for Helpers in Crisis for open-hearted leaders thoughtfully navigating crisis and transition.
A Master of Social Work degree from Tulane University seeded my worldview, which is based on justice and explained by systems theory. Through decades leading high-impact initiatives, from community-based initiatives to health care programs to corporate social responsibility portfolios, I have honed a unique point of view—seeing what is possible amidst crisis and transformation.
With a respect for making knowledge publicly available and accessible, I have launched numerous platforms: listservs, websites, searchable databases, blogs, e-courses, newsletters, and 40+ peer-reviewed journal articles. I write a weekly newsletter on Substack: All the Care in the World.
Proofs of love are one of my love languages - find a trail of love notes wherever I go. Dancing samba and being a devoted patron of my local library bring me so much joy.
Image courtesy of Ted Weinstein. Photo from the Hope Factory at Four Chicken Gallery.
Feedback from previous participants.
Your work stays with me. I continue to think about it later. These practices impact us on a deep level.
Hope Factory participant
It shocks me how simple things can be so powerful. We always try to seek answers deep, but they often are on the surface. I see real value in your tools. I think they are easy to implement and that's their power. Thank you so much!
Nataliya, workshop participant
With her simple prompts and warm invitation to share, Shannon has an uncanny ability to not only draw out candid, intimate responses but also give them an audience.
Caroline Kangas, Store Manager, 826 Valencia
Shannon Weber is so much more than the sum of her remarkable contributions. Her openhearted approach to every single day, her relentless intellect bound tight with her incisive disdain for the pretentious, and her truly kaleidoscopic energy swirl together to create this marvelous person I feel so honored to know. Her greatest contribution to us all is her gift for living.
Jay MacGillvary, Registered Midwife and Co-Director, Toronto’s Positive Pregnancy Program