Resilience Screenings - A Conversation of Hope

Name: Resilience Screenings - A Conversation of Hope
Start: 2026-03-10T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-10T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Drew Lewis Foundation at The Fairbanks

Schedule

Tue Mar 10 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Drew Lewis Foundation at The Fairbanks | Springfield, MO

You’re invited to a special screening of Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope hosted by the Drew Lewis Foundation.

This powerful documentary explores the science of how stress impacts the body, and how hope, connection, and community can heal.

The evening will feature:
Popcorn provided by Arvest Bank!
Welcome from the Director of RISE Meghan Storey (6:00)
Dear Drew: The story of the Drew Lewis Foundation and the movement it has become (6:10 PM)
Screening of Resilience (6:20–7:20 PM)
A Personal Story of Resilience by special guest Leslie Lindsay. (7:20-7:50)
Q&A and Closing (7:50-8:00)
Leslie is a former child/adolescent psychiatric R.N. at the Mayo Clinic and has attended writing classes and workshops at Northwestern University, Story Studio Chicago, Corporeal Writing, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kenyon Writing Workshop. Her work has been supported by Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. Leslie resides in the Chicago area with her husband and basset hound, and two college-age daughters.
Leslie’s writing has been nominated for the Best American Short Stories. She has contributed to The Millions, The Rumpus, DASH Literary, North American Review (NAR), Brevity, Allium, CRAFT Literary, LiteraryHub, The Florida Review, Autofocus, Fractured Literary, Psychology Today, Poets & Writers, Hippocampus Magazine, MER Literary, Motherwell, Manifest-Station, Mutha Magazine, Literary Mama, The Smart Set, The Nervous Breakdown, Pithead Chapel, Mutha Magazine, Literary Mama, The Agapanthus Collective, A Door = Jar, Cleaver Magazine (both craft and prose), The Awakening, Semicolon Literary Magazine, Ruminate’s The Waking, and many other publications.
Tickets are free but space is limited, so be sure to secure your seats early!
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/NpGfVmqzchCxWFzG7

Questions? Contact Zion Riffe-Stevens at [email protected] or 417-838-2353.