Navigating the Storm: Finding Purpose and Resilience in Uncertain Times

Many non-profit professionals may find themselves grappling with complex emotions—ranging from frustration and fear to a deep sense of malaise. This workshop provides a supportive space to explore these feelings, process their impact, and reconnect with your mission and values in the midst of all the uncertainty and change. Together, we will navigate strategies for sustaining resilience, cultivating hope, and taking meaningful action amidst uncertainty. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, motivated, or somewhere in between, this session will equip you with tools and perspectives to stay grounded.

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More about our facilitator:

Lacy Alana is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, corporate trainer, multidisciplinary artist, and creator of The Yes And Brain framework.  As Lacy spent time in the clinical, educational, corporate, and expressive arts worlds over the last decade, she recognized that she was having great success blending facets from each discipline into the others.

When colleagues asked her to teach them tools to mimic her work, she developed the Yes And Brain framework to serve as a foundational framework for work in each setting.  Over the years, The Yes And Brain Model has continued to be refined, with specialized sub-models and training pathways for many different populations.

Lacy has a varied professional history, including working in the corporate world (with a business/advertising degree), providing corporate trainings and keynotes, running specialized circus and improv theatre programs for neurodivergent and at-risk youth, training educators/helping professionals/medical professionals, and working as a psychotherapist. Lacy provides one-of-a-kind trainings that fuse Interpersonal Neurobiology, therapeutic frameworks, business communication, and pedagogy from improvisational theatre and the circus arts.