Building Resiliency through Community

In an organization with a high capacity to adapt, people share responsibility for the larger organization’s future in addition to their identification with specific roles and functions.

Vulnerability is a conduit to community, and community holds vulnerability. Community also sustains acceptance, presence, and patience. It is the supportive space in which a grounded life unfolds, through ups and downs. It is the principle of groundedness we’ll turn to next.

Three images keep cropping up time and again: humanity as a community, as sowers and reapers, and as acrobats. The image of community reminds us that we are the most social of species, dependent upon each other throughout the cycles of our lives. The sower-reaper embeds us within the web of life, making clear that our societies co-evolve with the l

There’s been a shift from seeing resilience as personal adaptation to viewing it as a process that includes systems such family, community, organisations and ecosystems. It’s helpful to see resilience as natural human adaptation,

Meaningful community co-creation. The most generative collaborations come from community members with high, shared context.

brings individuals and organizations together for learning and coordinated action, based on a shared purpose.