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“As an immigrant working with other immigrants, I always feel like I have to follow what the government or funders say is the right way to do things, even when they didn't make sense. But Daniela helped me see that I can use the knowledge from my home country to prepare and build relationships as well. I didn’t realize I was missing these kinds of conversations until Daniela brought them up. Now I see they are very important, and I want to keep learning and talking about decolonization and our connection to the land.”
Ingrid
Program Coordinator
What if preparedness wasn’t about stockpiling supplies but cultivating meaningful connections?
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the accelerating pace of climate change, political instability, and crisis after crisis - and wonder how to keep showing up for others without burning out?
Have you been told that emergency preparedness is about hoarding resources, buying all the top-of-the-line supplies, or going it alone, or following a top-down government checklist that doesn't fit your reality?
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Have tried to do “all the right things” - from workshops to kits to safety plans - but still feel like something’s missing: a way to prepare that feels relational, liberatory, and rooted in justice?
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Dream of a future where preparedness is an act of collective care, not individual panic - and where your leadership helps weave deeper trust, sovereignty, and belonging in your community?
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What if there was another way?
If any of that sounds like you - welcome. The Inclusive Community Preparedness: Lab was made for this moment . . . and for you.
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TIP
Join the course with a friend (or two) so that you can continue practicing Inclusive Community Preparedness after the course ends!
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“I’d been avoiding emergency prep forever - it felt overwhelming and honestly kind of depressing. Afterwards, I finally started the conversation at work. We realized none of us even knew where our emergency plan was, so we took stock of what we had and what was missing. We’ve started filling in the gaps - and I don’t feel so alone in it anymore.”
Tanya
Executive Director
Preparing is caring, and caring is revolutionary.​
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Here's what we'll create together . . .
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✓ A care-centered preparedness plan that’s actually doable.
Feel less overwhelmed and more empowered - with concrete steps to get ready for climate chaos and social disruption without falling into panic, perfectionism, or burnout. Create plans that are creative, community-based, and deeply aligned with your values.
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✓ A grounded approach to collective care that doesn’t start with buying things.
You’ll learn how to shift from fear-based prepping to building mutual aid relationships, facilitating hard conversations, and weaving safety nets through connection - not consumerism. Our frameworks help you move beyond the checklist and toward relational, long-term resilience.
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✓ A deeper sense of confidence in your leadership.
You’ll strengthen your ability to hold space during uncertainty, lead with integrity, and support your people without needing to have all the answers. This Lab helps you root your leadership in interdependence, sovereignty, and care.
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✓ Liberatory tools for navigating crisis with clarity and imagination.
From trauma-informed emergency planning to land-based practices and community resilience rituals, you’ll leave with tools that respond to both urgent needs and long-term dreams. (Yes, we prepare for earthquakes. But we also imagine better futures.)
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✓ A supportive community that understands your values.
You’re not meant to do this alone. Inside the Lab, you’ll connect with other liberatory preppers, justice-rooted leaders, and care-centered changemakers who are walking this path beside you - experimenting, grieving, dreaming, and preparing together.
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And it's all inside the Inclusive Community Preparedness: Lab
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1. Build Creative Care-Based Practices for Yourself
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Cultivate a grounded relationship with your own needs, limits, and support systems.
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Understand your capacity and communicate it with confidence.
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Reclaim your agency and sovereignty in how you give and receive care - especially in moments of uncertainty or crisis.
2. Build Reciprocal Practices with Others
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Learn how to have courageous, care-based conversations around preparedness with neighbors, coworkers, and collaborators.
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Develop systems of mutual support that allow for rest, connection, and co-regulation - instead of burnout or isolation.
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Practice consent and capacity-sharing in your relationships and community work.
3. Build Sustainable Practices with the Planet
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Reimagine preparedness as an act of reciprocity, not extraction.
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Explore what a just, community-rooted response to crisis could look like - one that honors both land and future generations.
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Ground your emergency plans in sustainability, mutual aid, and regenerative values.
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Through guided learning, group coaching, and actionable exercises, you’ll learn to:
This Lab is where visionary changemakers become liberatory preppers - building resilient, interconnected futures rooted in care, not fear.
"I found an ease in my body that I didn't know I needed after talking to Daniela about Inclusive Community Preparedness which makes it easier to talk to others about this now too!"
Miru
Community Researcher
By the end of this course, you will:
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​✦ Create a Community Preparedness Vision Plan
Craft a living, breathing roadmap rooted in your community’s cultural strengths, land relationships, and collective dreams - a plan that moves beyond checklists and into courageous, justice-centered action.​
✦ Build Core Emergency Literacy Through an Intersectional Lens
Understand how climate and social crises impact communities differently - and gain tools to assess risk, prioritize care, and center those often left out of mainstream preparedness: racialized, disabled, low-income, and undocumented folks.
✦ Design Mutual Aid-Informed Emergency Practices
Use mapping, imagination, and care-based systems design to strengthen your local networks - identifying who you can lean on, how to organize together, and what to do when the unexpected happens and avoid replicating oppressive systems.
✦ Gain the Confidence to Lead Hard Conversations With Softness
Learn creative, trauma-informed facilitation tools to bring emergency planning into your community spaces - with curiosity, clarity, and connection at the core. You’ll be the one who turns panic into possibility.
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✦ Strengthen Your Inner Resilience & Leadership Capacity
Through embodiment, boundary-setting, and capacity-based planning, you’ll learn to show up in crisis as your most grounded self - unlearning the saviour mentality and working within consent culture.
✦ Practice Collective Design Thinking
You’ll work through imaginative exercises that bring together land-based knowledge, speculative futures, and relational strategy - helping you co-create plans that are practical and visionary.
✦ Join a Network of Liberatory Preppers & Visionary Leaders
Be in community with other care-centered changemakers building toward climate resilience and social transformation. You’ll leave with tools, templates, relationships, and a sense of rooted belonging.
✦ Leave with More Than a Plan - Leave with Purpose
You’ll walk away not just with an care plan for emergencies and a just, sustainable future, but with a renewed sense of your power. You’ll be the one in your community who dared to prepare from love, not fear. Who chose to bravely imagine a different future over replicating the status quo. And who knew: the future is built together.
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"I love how (Daniela) got us talking about Liberatory Futures by way of community care and preparedness - I left feeling excited about where Inclusive Community Preparedness can take us."
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Chris
Director of Operations
What you will learn inside the Lab
Week 1: Capacity, Consent & Collective Care
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Establish a trauma-informed, relational foundation for the journey ahead - where care is the container, not the afterthought.​
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Set agreements for how we move at the speed of trust
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Reframe preparedness as a form of collective consent and care
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Explore how your nervous system, energy, and boundaries shape your capacity to lead in crisis
Week 2: From Colonization to Care
Understand how systems of power have shaped our responses to crisis - and why reclaiming care is a radical act.​
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Learn to name and disrupt oppressive frameworks that can show up in preparedness and care work
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Begin crafting a values-based lens for future preparedness work
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Examine how colonialism, capitalism, and extraction shape disaster
Week 3: Rooted in Land & Leadership
Rebuild your relationship with land, ancestors, and place-based knowledge as a foundation for preparedness.
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Learn from Indigenous, land-based leadership models
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Reflect on personal/ancestral land relationships (even if you are disconnected and don't know them)
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Practice grounding your leadership in land-based principles of regeneration, reciprocity and responsibility
Week 4: Mapping Your Care Constellation
Prepare by identifying and strengthening the people, places, and practices that hold you - and those you care for.
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In this session you will:
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Map your care networks and community assets
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Practice identifying roles and responsibilities in mutual aid
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Shift from isolation to interdependence
Week 5: Disaster Decision-Making
Learn how to make ethical, trauma-informed, power-aware decisions when things fall apart.
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In this session you will:
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Explore real-world emergency scenarios and responses
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Create decision-making frameworks grounded in sovereignty and shared values
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Practice planning for consent, access, accountability, and equity under pressure
Week 6: Creative & Accessible Safety Planning
Use design thinking, storytelling, and artistic tools to reimagine safety - for everyone.
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In this session you will:
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Ensure emergency plans reflect access needs and lived experience
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Use arts-based practices to visualize care and response systems
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Prototype creative preparedness tools
Week 7: Imagination as Infrastructure
Harness visionary imagination to prepare not just for disaster, but for transformation.
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Engage speculative design and futures thinking
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Facilitate “what if” community scenarios
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Anchor preparedness in possibility, not panic
Week 8: Building Your Inclusive Preparedness Plan
Pull it all together - and create a living, care-centered plan that reflects your values, needs, and context.
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In this session you will:
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Use templates to finalize your Inclusive Community Preparedness Vision Plan
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Draft communication plans, check-ins, and rituals
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Plan how to share, implement, and adapt your work
Week 9: Celebration, Integration, and Next Steps
Honor your growth, integrate what you've learned, and step forward in community and clarity.
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Share your final plan with your cohort.
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Reflect on your transformation as a liberatory prepper
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Celebrate your leadership and commit to what’s next
"In my many years of youth climate action, I have not come across anyone who does intersectional and trauma-informed emergency preparedness. Daniela's work is unique in that way."
Abby
Youth Educator
This program will change how you show up in crisis - and in community if you…
✦ Know that checklists alone aren’t enough.
You’ve downloaded the PDFs and sat through emergency trainings, but something always felt off. You’re looking for an approach rooted in justice, connection, and care - not fear, control, or isolation. You want preparedness that actually fits the world you live in.
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✦ Feel the urgency - but don’t want to burn out.
You’re someone who always shows up in times of crisis, but you’re tired of carrying it alone. You want tools, language, and community to support others without losing yourself in the process.
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✦ Are done with extractive systems - and want another way.
You’re skeptical of emergency planning that doesn’t center disabled folks, racialized communities, or the land. You’re ready to learn new frameworks that align with your values and help you build collective resilience from the inside out.
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✦ Are a visionary. A liberatory prepper. A leader rooted in care.
Whether you call yourself a leader, community builder, artist, educator, activist, or simply someone who gives a damn, you believe imagination, relationship, and story are just as important as strategy.
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✦ Are ready to lead (in community) - now, not someday.
You know you can’t wait until the next fire, flood, or social rupture to figure this out. You’re ready to dedicate the time and energy to build something real - a plan, a network, a future that holds more than just survival.
"The idea of community preparedness was new to me, and sounded great, but I don't know any of my neighbours. Daniela helped me brainstorm ways that I felt comfortable starting a conversation with them so that I can eventually bring up emergency preparedness."
Joan
Residential Youth Worker
"It's overwhelming to think of managing 30 students in a real emergency. Daniela reminded me that we actually have 31 people in the room that can care for each other. Such a relief! I now incorporate more collective care practices in my classroom."
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Participant
High School Teacher
"I never considered how ableist our company's emergency plan was until Daniela challenged me to think about the supports people rely on - even on a 'good' day. Now, my team and I are not only reworking the plan but also recognizing the bigger need to prioritize accessibility."​
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Allie
Associate Director
Investment​
Sliding scale AND payment plans available.
(Use the Green Bottle tool for Economic Justice to choose the right tier for you)
$501USD
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Hi, I’m Daniela,
your guide on this journey!
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I am an aunty and eldest daughter in a Latine immigrant family who was socialized to believe I had to do it all - alone and without needing support.
This served me well at home, in school, and at work, ... until it didn’t. I accomplished many of my goals but I still felt unsatisfied, fake, like I didn’t fit in, tired, and alone.
After burning out twice in the nonprofit sector, I realized I was upholding a system that didn’t want to be fixed. I had to unlearn the lies - that my worth is tied to my work, that I have to do everything alone, and that asking for help is a weakness. This unlearning wasn’t easy - it required a lot of self-compassion because unlearning is an ongoing journey.
Now, I teach care-centered leaders how to dismantle oppressive systems with compassion, care, and clarity. This course is rooted in MANY years of studying and teaching and also in my lived experience - full of many joyful and daunting lessons along the way!
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I also believe teaching is collaborative - your learning experience informs my teaching experience - and together we inform our collective experience in our sessions, in our communities, and in our politics. The traditional classroom was made to create employees - I lead workshops where I encourage you to be yourself because I support changemakers and non-conformers. Join with your friends!
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"I knew my company had an emergency kit and plan - but I didn't realize that I had no idea what they were! Daniela gently guided me to ask questions about what I think I know so I can be more prepared."
Participant, Team Leader
FAQs
How much time will this course take?
You’ll need about 2 hours per week, including 90 minutes of live class time and 30 minutes for reflection or exercises.
What if I can’t make the live classes?
There will be resource available, no recordings will be created in order to allow participants to contribute more freely.
Is this course only for leaders?
While the course is designed with leaders in mind, anyone with a social justice lens and a desire to build inclusive community preparedness is welcome.
What’s your refund policy?
The course is non-refundable after the first class.
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What are the course dates ?
Join the waitlist to be the first to know.
9 weekly meetings.
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"I felt alone in helping my mom and other people with disabilities because the specific emergency supplies I would need are too expensive. Daniela helped me brainstorm ways to tap into community in order to evacuate my mom if needed, and and made me feel hopeful again."
Al
Gallery Administrator
