The Power of Resilience: Unlocking Human Potential in a Changing World
Welcome to the World Resilience Summit, a global online event that celebrates and promotes grit-enhancing practices that empower us to live strong. This annual summit, held on or around World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, brings together thousands of practitioners and enthusiasts of inner strength and collective resilience. In today’s unpredictable world, grit is essential for survival, achieving success, and thriving today.
Whether you’re navigating personal challenges, leading an organization, or grappling with global uncertainties, the ability to adapt and grow through adversity is the key. This summit marks the beginning of a bold mission dedicated to helping you live with the sense of empowerment and vigor.
The genesis of World Tai Chi & Qigong Day was the vision of Bill Douglas, who saw the need to create a global platform that encourages the practice of Internal Arts, promoting health, well-being, and Global Transformation. We honor Bill's pioneering work and his ongoing efforts to spread awareness and knowledge of these profound practices.
His emphasis on mind-body disciplines encourages using energy as the medium to connect and unify all aspects of being. Through these practices, we explore the states of consciousness that facilitate being in the flow, empowering participants to experience life with greater awareness, harmony, and abundance.
World Resilience Summits were designated to expand upon this vision, offering a more interactive exploration of these arts through the contributions of renowned masters and teachers. The creator of the annual summits, Lama Tantrapa, is the lineage holder of Qi Dao and pioneer of Qigong Coaching.
The Art of Being in the Flow, which is considered the "Holy Grail" of Tai Chi, Qigong, and other mind-body disciplines, is the life work of Lama Tantrapa. His presentation at this summit as well as the post-summit workshop and retreat provide unprecedented opportunities for both beginners and advanced practitioners to learn how to manifest greater abundance of energy, vitality, and grit by integrating Embodied Resilience into the daily life.
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Our Vision
In a world filled with unrelenting changes and challenges, our World Resilience Summit gathers a global community of resilience enthusiasts and professionals equipped with the tools, knowledge, and practices to not just survive but thrive through adversity. We believe resilience is the defining skill of our time—a capacity that can be cultivated, strengthened, and shared across individuals, organizations, and societies.
Our Mission
World Resilience Summit organizes and provides the forum to world-class thought leaders and change makers to democratize access to cutting-edge resilience knowledge and practices. Our mission is to empower individuals, companies, and communities by providing them with practical, evidence-based and time-tested approaches to building resilience at all levels: personal, organizational, and national. The sum total of these becomes Global Resilience.
Our Values
1. Embodied Wisdom: We believe true resilience must be embodied, not just understood intellectually. Our summit emphasizes practices that integrate mind and body, recognizing that resilience lives in our physiology as much as our psychology.
2. Evidence-Based Approaches: Our presenters bring together cutting-edge science with time-tested wisdom. We value approaches that are grounded in research while honoring traditional knowledge systems that have supported human resilience for generations.
3. Accessibility: Resilience shouldn’t be a privilege for the few. We’re committed to making powerful resilience practices accessible to everyone, regardless of background, resources, or prior experience.
4. Integration: We recognize that resilience operates across multiple dimensions—physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual. Our summit integrates diverse perspectives to address the whole person and whole systems.
5. Practical Application: Knowledge alone doesn’t build resilience. We emphasize practical tools and techniques that can be immediately applied in daily life, creating tangible shifts in resilience capacity.
6. International Community: Resilience flourishes in collaboration. We foster a global movement, where challenges are welcomed, breakthroughs are shared, and mutual support amplifies individual efforts.
The 2025 World Resilience Summit Explores Resilience Across Three Essential Domains:
Personal Resilience
Discover how to strengthen your individual capacity to navigate life’s challenges with greater ease, flexibility, and growth. Our experts share evidence-based practices for:
• Stress Mastery through self-regulation and stress inoculation;
• Exposure Therapy for mental toughness and emotional centeredness;
• Embodied Resilience through breath, movement, and environmental exposure;
• Mindset shifts that transform problems into learning opportunities;
• Mind-body practices that aid with recovering, restoring and replenishing your resilience reserves.
Organizational Resilience
Learn how to build teams and organizations that can adapt, innovate, and thrive through disruption. Our Organizational Resilience experts explore:
• Creating corporate cultures that support sustainable high performance;
• Leadership approaches of the Special Forces that foster team resilience;
• Restructuring and systemic transformation of resilient organizations;
• The principles of communication that promote grit in tough times;
• Relaxing under pressure to retain stability and flexibility in uncertain or dangerous environments.
Global Resilience
Engage with the broader challenges of building resilient communities, societies, and systems in our interconnected world. Our National and Global Resilience presenters address:
• Indigenous perspectives on tribal resilience;
• Social, economic and political consequences of the refugee crisis;
• Hostage diplomacy and resilience of hostages in captivity;
• Civilizational Resilience and adaptation strategies;
• Global transformation through implementation of scientifically proven, ancient wellness practices.
The 2025 World Resilience Summit is proudly brought to you by Resilience Centre founded by Lama Tantrapa and Ane Viuf-Herseth. Founded to support individuals, organizations, and communities in building systemic and embodied grit, Resilience Centre is not only the driving force behind this summit—it’s the heart of global movement dedicated to making our civilization stronger and more sustainable.
In addition to organizing annual summits, Resilience Centre cultivates connection and growth through maintaining a thriving online community with year-round events and immersive in-person retreats designed to integrate resilience in real life. Together, we are creating a global movement dedicated to using the practice of being in the flow to manifest a more harmonious and resilient world.
