Navigate burnout, build resilience, challenge hopelessness.
"Resilience is not how calmly we sit in the shadows, but how tall we stand in the wicked winds"
— Katie Hodgetts, Act, Rest, Reset, Repeat
Flourishing humans create better change.
Katie Hodgetts works at the intersection of human resilience and systemic, structural and psychological change. Her work asks a simple but often overlooked question: what if the key to lasting change isn’t just better strategy, but more alive, connected and resourced humans?
After a decade in youth climate organising, founding The Resilience Project, Katie now focuses on what sustains change: the inner lives, relationships and energy of the people within it.
Act, Rest, Reset, Repeat: Create Change without Burning Out
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Calling for change in the 21st century can feel like both a moral calling and a slow undoing. The staggering rates of burnout illuminate it not as a temporary setback to activism, but as a warning sign of deeper systemic and psychological misalignments. As the world shifts, how we engage must too.
Act, Rest, Reset, Repeat is a rallying cry for a different way to do changemaking. Part memoir, part manifesto, and part mental health toolkit, Katie offers a transformative framework for lasting change, inviting others who care about a better world to to reimagine activism not as a sprint to save the world, but as a lifelong rhythm of acting, resting, resetting and repeating.
About Katie
Katie lives with her husband and Spoon the cat in the Scottish Highlands. She teaches yoga locally and spends her free time cooking, hill-walking and swimming. She is an author, retreat facilitator and founder/executive director of The Resilience Project. With over ten years of experience working at the intersection of inner development and external impact, she is passionate about both people and planetary aliveness.
After experiencing burnout in the youth climate movement, she began her mission to infuse the movement with resilience, community and loving transformation, establishing The Resilience Project at age 24.
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Whether it's a retreat, a literary festival, a keynote or a burnout workshop, I bring an intimate and unapolagetic perspective on mental health, hope, resilience and 21st century changemaking. Reach out to discuss how we can create a meaningful experience for your community.
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