It may involve aerial reinforcement in the form of retardant or water drops. Holding the line might be about keeping fire away from the line where you can. You remove fuel to keep the fire from spreading by building fireline. In wildland fire, one of the key strategies is to build fireline. It’s even more fundamental than that concept though – because you aren’t flanking anything. I learned about holding the line in wildland firefighting – much like the anchor and flank idea. When we are aware of our resilience as well as the situation and resources, we may find that holding the line is the best option. We are not always in a position to move forward. It may be about helping others maintain stablity as well. Actively “holding the line” when you are worried about losing it entirely – whatever “it” is – can be incredibly powerful. Holding the line may be the most powerful thing we can do in a crisis – and it may be the best option given our risk and our resilience. We can hold the line in an emergency our family is facing. ![]() It is in those times that perhaps the best move is to hold the line. Sometimes we may not feel like we can do a whole lot of navigation of whatever we are facing. One of the things that helps in the midst of disruption is finding and maintaining stability where we can. ![]() It can be anything from a job loss to a tornado to a relationship change to a broken leg to a move. Our home life, our work, our community, our country. The methodology in the Shift the Country framework is built to help with every aspect of that mission, including this work here.ĭisruption can throw us off. That mission is to help people help each other through multiple crises, to help get voters engaged, to help hold civil society together, and to make transformation along the way. This area of work - holding the line - can help with the part of the mission of the Shift the Country work about holding society together. Since it was written, the US has been experiencing increasing chaos especially in mid-2020. UPDATE: This page is duplicated as a blog post on, and is a Counterfear Tool. ![]()
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