Together, we can create a more resilient future.
Resilient Futures is a non-profit organization that creates and guides the implementation of Trauma-Informed Programming for Schools and Youth-Serving Organizations. We think about adversity and trauma through the lens of resilience, empowering Educators and Youth-serving Professionals with knowledge of how trauma presents in children and adults, and healing-centric strategies that intercept trauma with empathy and understanding.
Childhood Trauma is the greatest public health crisis of our time.
Childhood trauma is a silent epidemic, deeply embedded in the fabric of our society. Trauma affects a child's brain, body, and emotional development, setting the stage for challenges in learning and social environments.
Unaddressed childhood trauma can lead to lifelong health issues, mental illness, and persistent cycles of disadvantage, affecting not just individuals but also families, communities, and future generations.
Empower your organization with Resilient Futures Trauma-Informed Futures© Programming. We’re helping to build trauma-informed communities where every adult and child can thrive.
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Early Childhood (0 - 5 yrs)
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Elementary Education: K - 5
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Secondary Education: 6 - 12
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Higher Education
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Pre-Service Teachers
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Community & Corporate Institutions
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Online Courses & Resources
When Black Women Heal
A Trauma-Informed Futures© retreat series exclusively for Black women in the greater Denver area who are ready to prioritize rest, release grief, and invite in more joy, balance, connection, and healing into their lives. All three retreats in this series will be held at Blossom House (3300 W Nevada Pl, Denver, CO 80219). Retreats are half-day experiences starting at 10 am MST and ending at 2 pm MST. Snacks and lunch will be provided for all participants.
A Retreat Series from Resilient Futures
In a world that often demands your labor but overlooks your healing, Centering Rest is your call to pause and prioritize your rest. This half-day retreat focuses on recognizing and uprooting your beliefs about overworking. It is designed exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of Enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area to reclaim rest as an act of freedom and self-care.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided restorative practices and mindfulness rituals designed to restore participants to a greater sense of wholeness
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Guided support from expert facilitators to develop a rest plan that can be utilized upon completion of the retreat
A Rest Plan Resource to support you in assessing your current rest practices, and then guide you in developing an actionable rest plan
A grounding gift to honor your commitment to choosing yourself
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness moment. It’s a healing intervention.
Centering Rest is a retreat for us, and by us, created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
There are no panels, no PowerPoints. Just permission. Permission to rest. Permission to release. Permission to be.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Feel called to re-examine and redefine their relationship with rest
Are holding emotional exhaustion, burnout, or unspoken grief
Are seeking time in community with other Black women
Want to explore rest as a form of resistance, healing, and reconnection.
This retreat is designed for Black women ready to reconnect with their inner truth, embrace their full emotional experience, and cultivate self-worth as a path to healing. Exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area, we’ll create a space to pause, reflect, and explore practices rooted in gratitude, self-love, and emotional healing.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided restorative practices and mindfulness rituals designed to restore participants to a greater sense of wholeness
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Guided support from expert facilitators to engage in practices that support our ability to cultivate greater self-worth as a means to combat feelings of brokenness
A Cultivating Deeper Self-Worth Guided Reflection Resource
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness momen. It’s a healing intervention.
This retreat is a continuation of the powerful When Black Women Heal series - an ongoing journey of collective healing, joy, and liberation.
Restoring to Wholeness is a retreat for us, and by us, created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
The focus is about cultivating resilience, leaning deeply into learning new ways to show up more fully for yourselves and your families.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Feel called to be restored to a greater sense of wholeness and resilience
Are holding feelings of brokenness and disconnection within themselves
Are seeking meaningful connection in community with other Black women
Want to pause, reflect and reconnect with themselves
For many Black women, the experience of carrying deep, layered grief (generational, historical, personal, spoken, and unspoken) is all too familiar. This retreat is designed exclusively for women who identify as Black, African American, or descendants of enslaved peoples in the Denver metro area. We will provide tools for releasing grief, reclaiming peace, and nurturing a more balanced, joyful life, personally and professionally.
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Co-facilitated by Dr. Eleonora Cahill (Resilient Futures) and Dr. Asia Lyons (Lyons Educational Consulting), this experience is a deeply intentional offering grounded in trauma-informed care, ancestral wisdom, and Black womanhood.
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Guided practices, rituals and tools to name and release grief
Mindfulness practices designed to center and manifest joy
Intentional time for reflection, connection, and renewal
Culturally grounded healing spaces created with deep reverence for the lives and needs of Black women
Strategies to cultivate joy
Guided support from expert facilitators to understand the ways that we can both honor grief while creating space for joy
Lunch and Snacks provided
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This isn’t just a wellness moment. It’s a healing intervention.
Releasing Grief & Manifesting Joy is a retreat for us, and by us—created by two Black women scholars, a clinician, and facilitators deeply committed to racial healing, resilience, and liberation. It centers your full humanity, not just your coping mechanisms.
This retreat continues the When Black Women Heal retreat series - a journey toward liberation, healing, and personal transformation.
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This retreat is for Black women in the Denver metro area who:
Are holding grief and are seeking ways to release this grief
Desire ways to manifest and experience joy abundantly in their daily lives
Are seeking time in community with other Black women
We define ‘Resilience’
as the capacity to grow & thrive, with strength and tenacity in the face of trauma and oppression for both individuals and communities.
Breaking Cycles of Trauma
Trauma presents in ways that challenge societal norms of “acceptable” behavior.
When we respond negatively to trauma responses, we alienate individuals by ignoring how experiences shape behaviors. What systems label as "unacceptable behavior" may actually be someone's best effort to cope in the present.
Trauma responses are adaptive, physiologically intelligent mechanisms that help people survive in a world that often fails to understand them.
Systemic Trauma Response Cycle
Breaking the Cycle: A Trauma-Informed approach
Understanding the emotional, physiological, and neurological impacts of trauma transforms how we perceive and interact with others. By responding to adversity with compassion and a commitment to validation and healing, rather than judgment or condemnation, we foster communities of care that empower self-knowledge and agency. This approach moves us beyond systemic expectations, honoring individuals and the unique experiences that shape their actions.
Our work centers trauma through a lens of Cultural Humility, fostering personal growth and driving sustainable change through community education and practice.
Access our FREE catalog of Trauma-Informed Futures© Resources
Our Online Courses offer participants the foundational education and tools to create trauma-informed environments for all children and adults. Empower yourself with practical strategies to foster resilience, healing, and growth in every learning community.
Give to further our Mission
Our schools and youth-serving communities are in need of trauma-informed education, training, and resources. Your tax-deductible gift helps us expand training and resources to more educators, schools, and youth-serving organizations.
Women-founded with community at the core.
Our Executive team brings a range of experiences, knowledge, and passion for working with individuals of all ages, and within the systems that support them. Our staff, faculty, partners, and institutional leaders are a part of our collective community, all sharing in our Mission and Vision for the future.
Interested in learning more about our Trauma-Informed Futures© Programming & Services?