Resilience Literacy Institute
Join us virtually at our August 2026 Institute!
August 11th-14th | 12:00-3:15pm EST
Registration is Open Now
**Scholarships are Available. Click Here for full details.**
Learn Foundational
Racial Literacy Skills
During the Resilience Literacy Virtual Institute—formerly the Racial Literacy Virtual Institute—participants develop foundational skills in mindfulness, emotional regulation, and narrative practices to navigate stress tied to race, identity, and other high-stakes experiences.You’ll engage in large and small groups, pairs, and independent activities designed to help you examine, process, and even reframe some of your most impactful experiences with identity and difference.By the end of the training, you will be able to:Define and practice the skills of noticing, reframing, and resolving memories and experiences about difference—grounded in racial literacy research.Learn and apply at least three evidence-based stress regulation and mindfulness strategies.Process personal, professional, and organizational experiences of decision-making during stressful encounters to better understand your beliefs, behaviors, and leadership approach.
Institute Pricing & Scholarship Info
INDIVIDUALS
Feeling stressed about dealing with interpersonal conflicts? Grow your village with likeminded folks as we all develop racial literacy skills together.
WANT TO REGISTER 8+ PEOPLE?
Join with a cohort of your peers. Be able to pay via ACH or invoice and grow your group’s common language to confront and heal social injustice.
Email institute@lionsstory.org for more information.
August 2026 Institute Pricing
REGULAR REGISTRATION PRICING
$1,250 per seat
Use Code "EarlyBird26” for 15% Off
by 7/1/26
Limited Scholarships are Available
See below for full information and application details.
We especially encourage BIPOC leaders, clinicians, educators, artists, and community practitioners to apply. Applications close on July 17th.
In Partnership with the American Psychological Association
We are honored to share that, with support from the American Psychological Association (APA), Lion’s Story is able to offer a limited number of partial scholarships for participants who would benefit from financial support to attend this year’s Institute.
We strongly encourage Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) leaders, mental health professionals, educators, artists, nonprofit practitioners, and members of inclusive or equity-centered teams to apply.
Our goal is to make this work more accessible to individuals and communities who are often navigating the emotional realities of leadership, care work, advocacy, education, and identity-based stress in real time.
Partial scholarships are limited and awarded based on need and alignment with the mission of the Institute. We encourage early applications. Applications close on July 17th.
Why do we need
Resilience Literacy Training?
When stressful encounters about identity and culture arise, many
people freeze, like a deer caught staring in the headlights of an oncoming car.
Left unaddressed, these moments disrupt the workplace, strain relationships,
and erode trust.
The Resilience Literacy Institute (RLI) equips leaders and individuals with skills to navigate challenging conflicts of diversity that disrupt workplace climate and relationships. Through storytelling, mindfulness, and role-playing, our training alleviates decision fatigue. We achieve this by cultivating participants' courage and confidence to negotiate identity-based strife more effectively. But it begins with your story.
Racial literacy is our foundation; resilience literacy is the broader application.
Our approach is grounded in four decades of research on racial coping, socialization, and literacy. At RLI, we prepare professionals to integrate equity, belonging, and justice at the center of their problem-solving. Participants leave ready to recognize, interpret, and ethically mediate conflicts, while staying grounded in their mission.
Everyone has a story that matters.
At Lion's Story, we have learned that when we use our stories to identify who we are rather than accomplishments or status, conflicts become resolvable. We help professionals embrace their stories so they can create healthier relationships where they lead, work, teach, or learn.
