# Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse > A 9-Week Online or In-Person Course ## Posts - [Paradise Undone](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/2024/06/10/paradise-undone/): My Dad was part of a small group of people who together owned 130 acres of a wonderful mixture of hardwood forest, meadows, hillside and creek bottom. I have meandered that part of Mother Earth since I was old enough to trek out on my own, probably around age 10. We called this woods “the Rock Creek woods”. A big part of the majesty of the woods on the steepest hillside was the mixture of many thousands of oaks and hemlocks in various stages of maturity, including some old, grandfather trees. These two tree species seemed to enjoy each others […] - [The Journey](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/2024/01/12/the-journey/): [image: image.png] The Journey Several times throughout the Course, we mention that collapse acceptance is not a “one and done” event in life. Rather, for most of us, it is a lifelong journey. Sure, there are some folks who become collapse aware and quickly move solidly and completely into acceptance. Alas, for the vast majority, it is a longer journey and more heart wringing than that. I spent my twenties in the decade of the 1970’s. Although I was married with a couple of youngsters, and was largely focused on doing my best to provide for them in that era […] - [Acceptance and Serenity](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/2023/12/10/acceptance-and-serenity/): Acceptance and Serenity Having walked the journey of sobriety for several decades, I have been blessed with the gift of the serenity prayer: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. It was a longing for serenity around the Great Unraveling that I had been witnessing that nudged me towards wanting to take greater steps towards discovering how I might apply acceptance to the predicament of collapse. Coming together with two great friends and with the guidance of Spirit, the R&A course was the […] - [Acceptance: The Key to Cultivating Inner Resilience ](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/2023/10/21/test-blog-with-image/): In the midst of our global predicament that has no solutions but begs more for wise responses, embracing acceptance may be our most vital and wisest response of all. Acceptance, often misunderstood as resignation, is far from giving up. It is, in fact, the very cornerstone of our resilience and our pathway to living authentically in the world we find ourselves in today. Acceptance begins by acknowledging the truth of our predicament: that despite our best efforts and noble intentions, the world we know is undergoing rapid and widespread disruption. This acceptance doesn’t signify defeat but serves as our starting […] ## Pages - [Core Principles of the Course Community](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/core-principles-of-the-course-community/): Doug Della Pietra and Steve Aman offered these core principles and values to the community as they were stepping down from their roles as Course Developers in Spring 2025. These principles remain central to the course community as we move forward: - [Events Listing](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/events-listing/): Tutorials: - [Check-in](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/check-in-2/) - [My Account](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/my-account/): We are beginning to have restricted access pages on the website, for those who have taken the Resilience and Acceptance course and have decided to become course leaders, or  for those who have begun to join a Resilience and Acceptance Community Circle (RACC).  This means that we will be asking those people to sign up for unique passwords so that they can log in and gain access to the restricted pages.  The restricted pages have special trainings and other related materials for course leaders or RACC Facilitators.  If you are a course graduate, sign into the website by entering your information […] - [Account Information](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/account-2/): [ultimatemember_account] - [Logout](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/logout/) - [Login](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/login-2/): [ultimatemember form_id=”1308″] - [User Profile](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/user-2/): [ultimatemember form_id=”1309″] - [Course Leader Files](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/course-leader-files/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password: - [LogOut](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/out/): Log Out - [Password Reset](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/my-account/password-reset/) - [Members](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/members/) - [Enter Information](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/my-account/sign-up/) - [Course Leaders](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/course-leaders/): Offering the Resilience & Acceptance in the Face of Collapse course depends entirely on the generosity and leadership of past participants who assume the role of Course Leader. A Course Leader is someone who has completed the course at least once and takes on the overall organizational and logistical responsibilities to facilitate the course for others. Typically collaborating with another Course Leader, the primary responsibilities of Course Leaders include: If you are interested in becoming a course leader, begin by filling out the Course Leader Information Form below, which will give us all the information we need to start you […] - [Registrations](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/registrations/) - [Contact](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/contact/): Steve Simmer, Course Offering Coordinator, Webmaster, email Barbara Osterman, RACC Facilitator Coordinator, email We realize that sometimes none of the available times work with everyone’s schedule for registering for a course. If you would like to be contacted about future course offerings, please fill out this form. - [How the Course Developed](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/the-course/how-the-course-developed/): Just before the onset of the Covid-19 lockdown, a small group of seven individuals from the Greater Rochester, New York area gathered to explore personal and community resilience. Witnessing, both individually and collectively, the unraveling across many intersecting and interconnected societal dimensions, we came together to delve into what it means to be resilient during uncertain times. In the spring of 2022, a subset of our group expressed a desire to move beyond mere awareness of collapse and embrace collapse acceptance. Three members, Mary Gleason, Doug Della Pietra, and Steve Aman, followed a calling to develop a comprehensive course. This […] - [The Course](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/the-course/): Things seem to be falling apart.  Biodiversity loss, ocean degradation, urban flooding, political strife and war, climate chaos and migrations, economic instability, food shortages, wildfires, soil degradation.  A Great Unraveling. Join course leaders for this free 9-week online course. The course begins with a sobering introduction to societal collapse and guides participants through a supportive pathway by exploring inner and outer adaptation to greater resilience and acceptance in the face of collapse. Know that this experience will be emotionally rigorous. See Syllabus for more info. Commitment Level: ~ 4-5 hours / week (homework & weekly meeting). Course Syllabus and Learning […] - [RACC](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/racc/): This content is password-protected. To view it, please enter the password below. Password: - [Blog](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/blog/) - [Course Schedule](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/course-schedule/): Below are the start dates for upcoming Resilience and Acceptance in the Face of Collapse courses. The date indicated is the date for the first session, and the courses run 9 consecutive weeks on the same day of the week as the start date. We have offered the various courses on different days of the week as well as different times.  If none of the scheduled times work for you, we can contact you about future offerings. Place your name on our contact list by filling out this form and we will notify you about future offerings in our periodic […] - [Testimonials](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/the-course/testimonials/): Here is a short video from one of our course members, Victor Koessl of Austria, who offered this in response to completing the course. We show this with Victor’s permission as his response to the course material–Thank you, Victor. Of the 150 participants who were polled, the self-assessment of their collapse awareness evidenced substantial growth. Initially rated at 6.5 out of 10 at the start of the course, this awareness surged to an impressive 8.8 out of 10 after completing the course. Furthermore, participants’ levels of acceptance regarding collapse also showed significant improvement, with pre-course ratings at 5.1, which notably […] - [Links](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/links/): Resources Group / Organization Name Description Collapse Acceptance Alliance CollapseAcceptanceAlliance@gmail.com Fostering a safe, supportive space to explore grief, embrace collapse acceptance benefits, and build community. Experience emotional and relational blessings through facilitated discussions by Val Christensen & Peter Melton. Collapse Club https://www.collapseclub.com/ David B. hosts the Collapse Club video channel on YouTube. He and other conveners offer two meetings a week on Zoom for people to share their experience of collapse and their Journey of Collapse Acceptance. Deep Adaptation Forum https://www.deepadaptation.info/ The Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF) offers global support for climate crisis realities. Its mission is to foster loving responses […] - [Syllabus and Objectives](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/the-course/syllabus/): Course Objectives After participating in this course, you will be able to: Click on Picture for Video Summary of Course Syllabus Syllabus Session 1: Intro / Overview / Community-Building Session 2: Tools for Building Inner Resiliency Session 3: The Great Unraveling (Collapse) Session 4: Emotional Response to Collapse Session 5: Adaptation Session 6: Indigenous Wisdom and the Original Instructions Session 7: Outer Resilience: Action through Localization & Community Session 8: Acceptance Session 9: Tying the Strands Together, Weaving New Fabric For more information about the Course Syllabus and its guiding assumptions, click the PowerPoint presentation below: - [The Course Developers](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/the-course/about-us/): This course is a work of love and the culmination of a calling for us. We believe that the collapse of industrial consumer civilization has been underway for many years now and is unstoppable. We do not pretend to know all that will be involved in its collapse, nor what our world and planet will look like post-collapse. In this uncertainty and “not knowing,” we believe that tools for experiencing and feeling our emotional responses, developing inner resiliency, cultivating inner and outer adaptation and resilience in the face of this predicament, returning to our original Instructions, and acceptance are core […] - [Home](https://acceptingcollapse.com/): With great sadness and great love, we have become convinced that we are in a time of unravelling.  Species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate.  Wildfires, hurricanes and dying oceans are evidence that our climate has entered a catastrophic stage.  We are living amid great political and economic uncertainty.  During times of disruption and challenge, we have two choices: turning away or turning towards. For a long time, we have learned to turn our eyes away and live as we have always lived.  We believe that closing our eyes has not served us.  We believe that we need to […] - [Privacy Policy](https://acceptingcollapse.com/index.php/my-account/privacy-policy/): Who we are Our website address is: https://acceptingcollapse.com. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Media If you upload images to […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)