Siobhan Chinnery

Bloom through the dirt framework

From Preparation to Action: How Resilience Takes Root

The Bloom Through the Dirt framework provides individuals and teams with both the skills and the actions needed to build real, lasting resilience. It focuses on three essential areas of preparation—strengthening your foundation, deepening connections, and expanding your perspective—so that when challenges inevitably come, you’re ready to act with clarity and confidence.

By investing in well-being, building trusted support networks, and adopting a mindset open to growth and learning, individuals and teams create the conditions for resilience before adversity strikes. Then, when they find themselves “in the dirt” of a challenge, the framework offers practical, immediate actions to stay grounded, focused, and forward-moving. It’s part preparation, part real-time response—and fully designed to help people grow through what they go through.

the elements

Enrich the Soil

"Enrich the Soil" is about intentionally strengthening your foundation—building supportive habits, nurturing well-being, and creating the conditions that fuel growth, resilience, and long-term success.

Grow the Roots

Enrich the Soil

"Grow the Roots" focuses on deepening connections and building a strong support network. It’s about fostering trust, collaboration, and meaningful relationships that sustain you through challenges and help you thrive in the long term.

Broaden the View

Inner Cultivation: Turning Preparation into Action

"Broaden the View" is about shifting perspective and embracing adaptive thinking. It’s about learning from challenges, seeing setbacks as opportunities, and staying open to new ideas, solutions, and ways forward.

Inner Cultivation: Turning Preparation into Action

"Inner Cultivation" focuses on how individuals and teams respond in the face of challenge. It centers on taking ownership of next steps, focusing on what can be controlled, and making intentional choices that move things forward. This is the action phase—where mindset, support, and well-being come together in how decisions are made and challenges are met.