Day #692 - Resilience

Self, System, Community

Resilience is an idea much misunderstood: we come to imagine it like a sea wall, holding back the waves, resisting defeat, when in fact it’s better envisioned as the ability to recover, to ‘bounce back’, to keep on going.

We can understand resilience in both individual and systems terms, and also as a collective feature.

There are mechanisms by which we understand what is happening, ‘sense making’ and diagnosing, as well as narrative mechanisms of understanding and change.

Use your sixty seconds today to consider resilience: in yourself, in your systems, in your community.

Is it something you take for granted, or work on in a structured way? And if you work on it, do you focus on just one of those areas, or all of them?

Social Leadership is a form of authority held at the intersection of systems. This is a community in dialogue with our practice, for sixty seconds a day.