Disaster recovery made easier
Disaster recovery is hard, but can be made easier
with the learning of others who have been there before.
Resources and training to make recovery more human—helping both communities and their supporters navigate the emotional, social, and practical challenges ahead.
Recovery Resources
Workshops to empower disaster recovery
"Hummingly's innovative tools and training grew out of the lived experience of working in emergencies. They are grounded in science and are masterfully designed. This is what makes them so powerful."
"We’ve been around since the 1940s, and this is the first time we’ve found a resource that truly speaks to both individual and organizational resilience. That’s hard to find, but now that we have it, I think it’s invaluable.”
“Rest assured that your formula has changed many lives. You helped every one of my colleagues. We left differently than we came in.”
“These cards offer advice from disaster recovery professionals who have ‘been there’ many times over.”
“Our staff are in high-stakes situations on a daily basis and it's taken an emotional toll. After all these years of not having an answer to the challenges they face, this in-depth approach to the self-care of staff who are pressured day in and day out was just what we needed.”
"The absolute highlights for me were the 'aha moments' when I could see my leaders kick back in their chairs and nod! Amazing."
Hummingly’s Resilience Journey
The greatest risk to successful recovery for communities after disaster is the burnout of the supporters.
Hummingly has been addressing this challenge for more than a decade.
Check out the Resilience Journey –
addressing three critical challenges to sustain mission-driven people.
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World-leading experts, pressure-tested strategies and tools, interactive and engaging activities
- all boxed up into a world-class learning experience for mission-driven teams.
Easy. Engaging. Effective.
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Meet our Founder
Jolie Wills
B.SC., M.SC(PSYCHOLOGY)
Jolie has a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and is a leading psychosocial expert in disaster and disruption. Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviors are impacted by stress. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the earthquakes and has supported those working in disasters around the world. Jolie is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.
Blog posts
More Than Structures: Keeping People at the Heart of Recovery
In the summer of 2024, a wildfire tore across the foothills west of Loveland, Colorado, devastating the mountain communities of Cedar Park and Storm Mountain. Designed to support emotional recovery...
Building Resilient Teams in the Wake of Disaster
“The team knows when to carry people's emotional loads and when to leave it. I mean the difference between the month before and the month following is just night and day. They're taking care of the...
Navigating disaster recovery with Hummingly
Our organization works directly with fire survivors, and while Cards for Calamity has been a beautiful gift to offer our clients, it has also supported us as helpers. Even a single card can spark a...
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