Learn. Adapt. Begin again.
Building resilience now helps keep the future open.
The Center for Existential Resilience explores resilience in response to existential risk.
It focuses on the conditions that support continuity, coherence, and adaptive agency across personal, cultural, ecological, institutional, and civilizational life.
Through immersive processes, advising, and initiatives in research, philanthropy, and public life, the Center supports deeper, more adaptive, and more enduring forms of resilience.
What is resilience, and what is existential resilience?
Risk names exposure to harm, loss, or disruption. Resilience names the capacity to meet difficulty, adapt, and continue.
Existential risk asks what could foreclose the future. Existential resilience asks what helps keep the future open.
Ways to engage
Advising
One-on-one sessions, immersions, and longer-form support for people and organizations navigating change, reinvention, alignment, and purpose.
Resilience Weekends
A flexible framework for working with attention, time, rhythm, relationships, resources, systems, mission, and story.
Initiatives
Evolving work in research, philanthropy, education, and public life rooted in existential resilience.
Selected pro bono support to artists, founders, and nonprofits related to funding strategy, donor relationships, organizational strategy, and mission development.
The Austin Conference on Existential Resilience, a developing convening devoted to existential resilience across inner life, public life, culture, ecology, and institutions.