Resilience K-cafe presentation Phillipa Bayley 170909

Resilience Bristol Knowledge Café September 2009 Philippa Bayley

A disclaimer…

What is resilience? The ability to dance with whatever life brings - Bob Stilger

Resilient….hmmm Nimble Resourceful Creative Flexible Adaptive/adaptable Positive Forward-looking Community/people Bounce back

What is resilience? The ability to dance with whatever life brings - Bob Stilger “… pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again…” adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats and stress capacity of a system to undergo change and still retain its basic function and structure

Who is it important for? Individuals Families Communities Cities, regions, nations… Species and ecosystems

Can we build resilience? Personal resilience and community resilience are closely intertwined - Bob Stilger
Are they the same thing?
Which comes first?
How do we do it?

Building individual resilience:
A resilient person:
Thinks well of themselves
Trusts others
Regulates their emotions
Maintains positive expectations
Utilizes intellectual and emotional intelligence in problem solving

“… resilience is an ongoing interaction between nature and nurture, encouraged by supportive relationships…” Froma Walsh
Making meaning of adversity
Maintaining a positive outlook
Finding purpose beyond self, family and trouble through spiritual convictions
Resilience therapy - Angie Hart, University of Brighton
Ability to “bounce up”, not just bounce back

Building community resilience:
Built from the bottom; built into the fabric of the community
experiential
Empowerment of individuals
knowledge
skills
personal development
Open communication
Respect
“ Collective genius”
Involve unlikely partners
our own resilience is not enough

Building resilient systems
Resilience Alliance
“ Resilience Thinking”
Managing, rather than building resilience
Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis.

Properties of resilient systems
Diversity
Work with natural cycles
Modular (vs. over connected)
Tight feedbacks
Social capital
Learning, experimentation, change
Local
Redundancy
Ecosystem Services

A few further thoughts:
We Can Do That Around Here (Annie Hudson)
Common themes:
Positive outlook - flexible optimism
Communication/community
Empowerment - agency, mastery
Coherent narrative - shared or individual
Flexibility
Context dependent - no one-size fits all

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