Date: Thursday, May 14 from 12 noon--1 pm Pacific Time (3-4 pm Eastern Time)
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The neighborhoods, towns, and cities where people live, work, and recreate significantly influence their capacity to successfully cope with and use the climate emergency and other crisis like the Coronavirus pandemic as transformational catalysts to learn, grow, and increase personal, collective, and ecological wellbeing. When acute disasters or persistent overwhelming (toxic) stresses severely strain or fracture social support networks, overwhelm public support systems, or breakdown other vital protective factors, individuals and groups can be pushed to a boiling point causing entire factions, neighborhoods, and communities to become “trauma-organized.” This means they retreat into a self-protective survival mode that, rather than providing trust, safety, and cohesion, further traumatizes them, others, and often the natural environment as well, while amplifying racial, gender, and other inequalities and injustices. When this happens the ability to identify and implement positive solutions and enhance wellbeing are greatly diminished. This webinar will describe how neighborhoods, towns, and cities can proactively transition from trauma-organized to trauma-informed resilience-enhancing communities by building a culture of Transformational Resilience.
In specific, the webinar will:
- The many ways in which groups, neighborhoods, and entire communities can become traumatized and stressed by climate change-generated and many other types of adversities.
- How groups, neighborhoods, and communities can spot symptoms of becoming trauma-organized.
- How Transformational Resilience principles, methods, and policies can help groups, neighborhoods, and communities transition to resilience-enhancing social systems.
- How to use the "Wheel of Change" to build a culture Transformational Resilience in groups, neighborhoods, and cities.
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