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Resilience an introduction and promoting a culture
1. Resilience - an introduction
and promoting a culture that
supports it
The second RNIB contribution
2. Resilience - types
• Two types of resilience - both taken from studies
of the natural world
• One - the time taken for a system to return to
equilibrium (stability) following a disturbance
event - concerned with dynamics close to
equilibrium
• Two - the amount of disturbance that a system
can absorb before changing to another stable
regime - concerned with dynamics far from
steady state
• many other definitions exist too
3. Like sustainability it’s a storyline
• Joy Division
Joy Division, an influential cult band
Ian Curtis the charismatic lead singer committed suicide
and New Order emerge from the remaining three
members to become a highly successful indie and genre
defining band
4. Two relevant definitions
• The magnitude of disturbance that can be
absorbed before the system changes its
structure by changing the variables and
processes that control behaviour
(Gunnderson and Holling, 2002)
• The capacity of a system to experience
shocks while retaining essentially the
same structure, function, feedback and
therefore identity (Walker et al, 2006)
5. Images of resilience - to discuss
or dismiss
In Japan buildings are built with elastic
foundations to survive earthquakes
Some countries have it too -
Manchester United - bouncebackability
Poland
6. Some characteristics of
human resilience
Our bodies already embrace resilience
- but some people are more resilient than others
7. Some key characteristics of
resilient organisations
• Knowledge in common
• Sense of purpose - meaning
• High levels of social capital
• Improvisation - space for reflection and
swapping of roles
• Preference for paths and not strategies, that
work well over a range of scenarios
• Not about resource optimisation but about
factoring in risk
• Open to criticism
8. Why is it important?
• High impact events previously considered low
risk and of low prevalence are now the norm
• These events interlink and make other
supposedly unlikely events more likely
• In a globalised society these events are
happening with increased frequency and
magnitude
• These events impact disproportionately on
organisations and people with little capacity to
adapt - the poor but not always the poor either
9. What are these events?
Lehman Brother's employees Clean up at the Gulf of Mexico
People evacuating Fukushima Employees exit Woolworths
10. More momentous events are
happening now
Since July 29th $4 trillion dollars have been
wiped of share prices
12. Disability and resilience
• Austerity measures likely to have the effect of
reducing both benefits and in response to tighter
labour markets possibly support too - note the
capping of the Work Programme
• Possible focus on young and non-disabled but
this ignores the economic and social contribution
of disabled people both real and potential
• Resilience is a human quality transferable to
organisations and systems, reaping its benefits
depends upon better understanding of all people
but especially the disabled who have had to find
new ways of doing things others take for granted
13. Disability resilience network
• Values - inclusive of all
• Membership - open to all who promote the
network's values and purpose
Our purpose: -
• 1) a society that utilises the experiences,
abilities, skills and other attributes of disabled
people
2) to better understand resilience and the transfer
of its qualities into other systems and
organisations, to the advantage of all but
especially disabled people
• 3) to promote that understanding to all and
especially decision makers
14. Our offer
• Disabled people have potential and
experience to contribute towards other
people and organisations becoming more
resilient
15. The artistry of resilience
• Miro's "The Reaper" and Picasso's "Guernica"
Miro and Picasso sought to put their talents at the
services of society, we want others to do so too
16. "something inside so strong" -
Labi Siffre
• Brothers and sisters
When they insist we're just not good enough
When we know better
Just look 'em in the eyes and say
I'm gonna do it anyway
Something inside so strong
And I know that I can make it
Tho' you're doing me wrong, so wrong
You thought that my pride was gone
Oh no, something inside so strong
Oh oh oh oh oh something inside so strong
18. Our invitation
• First - to join the network
• 2) to help us in the research
• 3) to promote the network and our learning
• 4) to use the cultural norms of positive,
resourceful, creative, tactile and humour to
inspire others to join the network
• Lastly it’s a network - we only supply the
theme you are the characters so you can
shape, paint, express and tell the story as
we expand
19. Our next steps
• Study tours of projects that embody
principles of resilience especially those
focusing upon employment
• Thinking zone publications
• Fringe conference at the Welfare to Work
Convention in the summer of 2012
• Foster collaboration and take these ideas
into as many forums as possible