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March 11, 2015

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Three Perspectives on Resilience

Exciting how much is happening in the development and planning world regarding community resilience today. The word is all the buzz at the moment. We think that resilience being fashionable is generally a good thing, but there is a risk too. That is while it is becoming a new buzzword for climate action is it losing its connection with the roots of wellbeing. Here are three ways to understand resilience that leaders can use to keep their work fresh and meaningful. Radical Uncertainty. It is unclear who coined the term but Joanna Macy uses it in her work with Despair and Empowerment as part of The Work that Reconnects. It is the generative idea that we don’t know the outcome. The idea underpins her inspiration for the Great Turning, where collectively we shift from the unraveling systems to life-sustaining ones. The natural sense of fear of negative outcomes is natural, when we are facing harsh realities like rising seas, biodiversity loss, floods, the end of oil or depleted soils. Thes

Two Ways to Prioritize Climate Action at the Scale of Community

Here are two approaches to consider when using participatory engagement for joint action planning in community development for climate adaptation and coordinated economic development. Stack Functions. Solve three or more problems with one solution. When looking at a list of known issues or problems facing the community, and a list of possible actions, weigh each of the actions by issues they are addressing. If it is not really clear, go get more data. Everything in nature is multifunctional. Stacking functions is a phrase coined by Bill Mollison and repeated for some forty-some years since, with great joy in the now global permaculture community that signifies an ecological design principle:[1] Before you add something to what nature is already doing, make sure it serves three or more functions. It takes humility to not assume we know better than nature but that is the shift from ego-system to ecosystem. Isn’t it? To stack functions means that we have to be aware and understand somethi

Social Connections Matter

Ecological services in a living economy are vital. In a living system, connections are so important that they actually are a leverage point on both fertility and yield. These connections are a network with a weave so subtle and intricate, it is unnoticed. More often, to people anyway, these vital networks are not visible. I awe at them when observing and interacting in living systems. As a leadership and organizational development consultant, this study inspires me to be curious: What are the principals that "weave" or "unweave" our social networks? Karen Stephenson is a brilliant anthropologist in Rotterdam and trust building consultant that helps her clients understand leadership through the "white space" on their organizational chart. She explained to me once, in an interview, that in the white spaces there are a few key connectors in any social structure. They are 1) performance, 2) knowledge and 3) exchange. Performance connection is where what

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