From Burn to Bloom: Rethinking Resilience Through Relationship
As our communities continue to navigate the realities of wildfire, climate change, and ecological disruption, it’s time to rethink what resilience truly means.
Join regenerative designers Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams for the California Native Plant Society talk, From Burn to Bloom: Rethinking Resilience Through Relationship, a powerful and deeply personal presentation informed by their experience preparing for and living through the Eaton Fire as residents of Altadena. Drawing on firsthand observations, emerging research, and decades of regenerative design practice, Shawn and Leigh invite us to look beyond conventional approaches to wildfire resilience and explore the deeper relationships that shape how our communities live with fire.
Fire resilience is about more than vegetation removal or home hardening alone. It requires a broader understanding of how homes, landscapes, water, soil, vegetation, and community interact within fire-adapted ecosystems. Through storytelling, critical inquiry, and practical examples, this presentation challenges one-size-fits-all solutions and explores how a more integrated, ecological approach can help create healthier, more resilient places.
Rather than focusing solely on how to defend against fire, From Burn to Bloom asks a more fundamental question: How do we live responsibly and beautifully within a fire-adapted landscape?
This is not simply a conversation about loss or recovery. It is an opportunity to deepen our relationship with the land, better understand the role of fire in our ecosystems, and reconsider how we design, build, steward, and care for the places we call home.
Designed for homeowners, designers, builders, policymakers, land stewards, and community leaders, this presentation offers a thoughtful blend of lived experience, ecological insight, and practical inspiration for anyone invested in the future of fire-prone communities.
Join Shawn and Leigh for a meaningful conversation about moving beyond conventional ideas of fire safety toward a more connected, regenerative vision of resilience—one rooted in relationships between people, place, and the living systems that sustain us.
Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti