Cultivate Living and Learning, Ireland’s centre of education for sustainability and community resilience, has produced a new animation exploring the idea of community resilience.
Surfing the Waves of Change uses the metaphor of a surfer to explain community resilience and to encourage people to understand how they can play a role in building local resilience.
The idea is that the attributes of a surfer may hold a key to managing change. The secret of a wave rider is a deep awareness of natural systems and the skills and tools to deal with uncertainty. A catalyst for change will need to posses the ability to adapt and change effortlessly.“Community resilience is about finding a positive way to face change together,” says the animation’s narrator. “It is about building on a community’s strength and realising that people are the greatest asset a place has and we need more change-makers, place-makers and social entrepreneurs …. It is about building social capital – the glue that keeps communities together.”
Well worth a viewing! See http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/video/surfing-the-waves-of-change.
Cultivate is currently running a Resilience Month with various events. See http://www.cultivate.ie/learning-cultivatecentre-88889030/powerdown-cultivatecentre-88889124