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PATCH: cultivate resilience through living networks
What is a PATCH?
TRC’s PATCH approach is based on natural plant growth cycles.
Your patch is what you consider home, including the structure you live in and the people who live with, and the connections you have in your local area. Some examples are friendships and hobby groups, schools, and places of work or worship.
We use the plant growth metaphor and PATCH acronym because sustaining resilience isn't a one-and-done effort. It requires attention, care, respect for the time it takes to grow inside the patch, and recognition of environmental impacts happening around the patch.
PLANT
The cycle starts by setting goals with care but without rigid timelines.
We'll work together on establishing intentions based on your values and current season, allowing you to choose what “seeds" to plant based on available energy and resources. You'll learn how building resilience with hope but without strict timelines leads to more sustainable outcomes. Together, we'll explore planting goals with awareness of how your patch connects to other patches—to your community, networks, and support systems. This interconnection work helps you understand that your resilience efforts don't exist in isolation, but are part of a larger ecosystem of support and mutual engagement.
ADAPT
Here we learn to take time and observe how what you’ve planted adjusts to changing seasons and unexpected conditions without spinning out of the cycle.
We'll practice ways to notice how you do what you do and paying attention to the seeds you planted. You'll learn that honoring change as part of growth, not automatic failure, can help you adapt in ways that strengthen connections within and between patches rather than creating isolated solutions. Together, we'll develop skills that are especially important when external circumstances shift rapidly, like during emergencies or crises, when the ability to pivot while staying rooted in your values can make all the difference.
TEND
Explore ways to respond to what you observed during Adapt.
We'll check in with your relationship to the goals you're working on and how others are in the process with you. We’ll see where what’s growing needs small but meaningful changes to nurture what’s happening inside your patch. You'll develop ways to address conflicts and celebrate success without rushing through important moments, and pause to take account of what you're growing and appreciate where it is without expecting perfection.
Together, we'll explore how to tend the edges where your patch meets others—through actions, communication and spending time in-person like sharing a meal or activity. These connection points are where healing spreads and systems shift, creating networks of care that extend beyond individual resilience to collective strength.
COMPOST
This is the part of the growth cycle when we take care of what doesn't need to be kept but can still serve a purpose.
We'll work on turning attempts that didn’t bloom in a healthy way into wisdom for future growth. We’ll dig up goals or habits that no longer align with your current reality and develop ways to honor what you've learned from challenges and setbacks turning what didn’t work out into nourishment for new growth.
Together we'll identify patterns that no longer work and competitive mindsets that prevent patches from connecting and reinforcing each other. This process of breaking down what no longer serves you creates fertile ground for what comes next.
HARVEST
Time to notice what's ready and use it purposefully.
We'll practice recognizing and celebrating goal accomplishments and other improvements as they occur, acknowledging that progress rarely follows a straight line. You'll reflect on insights, skills, and outcomes that have become "second nature" during the cycle, appreciating how much has already integrated into your life. Together, we'll find ways to share what you've gained and learned with others, understanding that what you’ve learned becomes part of the collective knowledge that strengthens all our patches. We'll prepare seeds for the next cycle by reviewing original intentions and seeds, and deciding how to continue into your next season. You'll discover how to harvest new connection points and successful linkages as guides for expanding the network of patches, fully honoring the impact that shared resilience makes