Before signing up for the RAFC course, I spent about a year reading articles and books, listening to conversations with Michael Dowd as well as podcasts like Breaking Down Collapse. It was a time of great learning and great sorrow as I took all of this information in and realized the weight of it all. It was then that I discovered this course. It was amazing that it was offered as a free program.  The course is so well thought out and put together. Some of the material was familiar and much of it was new but it was good to be able to integrate it all over the 9 weeks of the course. The best part was that you had a chance to process the information with other people in smaller break out rooms which allowed for more sharing and space to process. I did not feel as alone as I had when I was learning on my own.  I highly recommend this course.