For many, living in northern California means living with on-going stress from wildfire threat. 

In this session, Erica draws on lessons learned and best practices from the past 2 years organizing fuel reduction and evacuation planning in her own neighborhood of 80 homes on a dead-end street in a very high fire hazard severity zone. 

How does our automatic and unconscious fight-flight-freeze survival instinct actually prevent us from taking proactive steps to protect ourselves and our homes from the threat of wildfire?

How can we attend to the inner terrain of our emotions and nervous system to sustain health and well-being amidst on-going stress and threats to our survival?  

Erica has been invited to share her perspectives on the inner terrain that’s missing in wildfire threat and mitigation with the West Contra Costa County Fire Safe Council, Berkeley Fire Department, Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, East Bay Wildfire Coalition, Contra Costa Resource Conservation District, and Stanford University Wildfire Seminar Series.

More information about Erica’s work is at ericapengconnects.com. She can be reached at erica@ericapengconnects.com