Bend, Don’t Break: Lessons in Resilience From the Natural World
Resilience isn’t a muscle you’re born with—it’s a wisdom nature teaches us, season by season, storm by storm. Like forests that sway in the wind or roots that deepen through drought, we too can learn to adapt, recover, and grow stronger after disruption.
This story explores what happens when we quit fighting for “getting over it” and instead lean into the quiet strength of recalibration, patience, and rooted flexibility. Because resilience isn’t about returning to what you were — it’s about evolving into who you’re meant to become.
How Squirrels Inspire Better Design
Spark a little wonder and imagination: squirrels aren’t just darting through trees for fun—they’re secret teachers. Their leaps, pauses, and wildly nimble pivots whisper lessons in agility, adaptation, and cleverness we can weave into design and life.
In this story, we lean in close to their movement, their instinct, their soft audacity. We see how their rotating ankles, spring-loaded legs, and expressive tails become blueprints—not copycats—for more alive, resilient, and artful ways of creating. Their wild wisdom invites us to design not just for function, but for joy, belonging, and the grace of unexpected leaps.
A Nature-Inspired Approach to Healing Using Biomimicry
Explore biomimicry and its opportunity to influence healing. Biomimicry is a design framework that studies how biological organisms, processes, and systems functioning on Earth today have adapted strategies to solve problems related to those we experience in our human designs. It’s a methodological and philosophical approach, a way of perceiving the world around us and our collective interconnectedness.