Friday Thread: Theories of Resilience
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: AN ADAPTATION STRATEGY
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
She bounced back—not just from a short jail sentence, but from hardships of all kinds, and many illnesses. In psychiatry, resilience is a term with a clinical meaning used to describe a person’s ability to cope with stress and trauma. This capacity involves multiple factors—the chorus of a person’s bodily systems and how they respond to stress; psy
... See moreSiri Hustvedt • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
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,
Bec Evans, Chris Smith, • Written
What can we do to increase our mental resilience so we can better endure the compounding stress and anxiety of relentless, overlapping crises? What can we do to increase our emotional and spiritual resilience so we have the inner resources required to stay engaged with these long-term climate challenges, even when we are exhausted by what we’ve alr
... See moreJane McGonigal • Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything—Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
It is this tension that, if we can reframe it and resolve it, leads to resilience.