What Does Resilience Mean to You?
(1:00 pm US Central Time Zone)
The term 'resilience' has permeated our speech and our daily lives. Experts and professionals from all walks of life talk about the need to be more resilient. But what this means can vary widely. What does resilience mean to you? In this session we explore the diverse landscape of resilience to make some meaning together. To seed the conversation, we look through the lenses of human, socio-ecological and biocultural resilience within complex systems and crises related to (un)sustainability, (in)equity, and (in)justice. We explore relationships between resilience, transformation and nature to help us locate ourselves in the broader landscape of resilience and ask what kind of resilience we each need to embrace the complexity of these times.
About the Speakers
Kelly Bannister
Dr. Kelly Bannister (summit co-host) is an ethnobiologist and applied ethicist who is devoted to supporting intercultural collaborations that bridge Western scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems. Her work explores how we can work well across different worldviews and knowledge systems, guided by diverse wisdom traditions and embodied practices, to address pressing social and ecological issues and support biocultural diversity and resilience. She is Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). She is also an Aikido and somatic movement practitioner, a Zen student with Chosei Zen, and an Instructor with the Institute for Zen Leadership. She is a 4th generation settler on unceded Coast Salish territory.
Maria Kukhareva
Dr. Maria Kukhareva is a consultant, coach, author and TEDx speaker, with over twenty years of experience in the UK higher education. Having started out as a young people practitioner and later an academic, Maria now uses her resilience expertise to inform her consultancy and coaching work with leaders and organisations. Maria is currently training to be an Instructor with the Institute for Zen Leadership.
Bonus offer: Free, online resilience coaching session to 5 registered summit participants, first come, first served. Contact Maria.Kukhareva@gmail.com to see if you’re one of the fortunate 5 and discuss logistics .
Michele-Lee Moore
Dr. Michele-Lee Moore (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Deputy Science Director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Michele-Lee spends lots of her time mulling all things related to water governance and social-ecological systems (SES) resilience and transformation, which includes exploring imagination, systems reflexivity, and how to design transformative spaces. She also invests in working closely with practitioners from around the world through designing transdisciplinary education programs aimed at bringing cutting-edge research into conversation with those on the frontlines of trying to change systems to address complex challenges.
Bonus Content: Video Introduction to SES Resilience;
, and Stockholm Resilience Center’s summary of 7 Principles of Resilience
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