Resilience
What do we need to stop avoiding crises and start inhabiting them?
Polycrisis
In a world marked by interconnected crises such as climate change, social inequality and exploitation of natural resources, resilience is presented as a key response to adapt, recover and transform itself to adversity. Beyond passive resistance quality, resilience involves an active regeneration capacity that allows systems to evolve significantly. This systemic vision integrates ecological, social and organizational dimensions, helping us to build more adaptive and sustainable societies.
Referents like Johan Rockström have developed the concept of ecological resilience, highlighting the need to maintain planetary boundaries to avoid environmental collapses. At the same time, scholars such as Lorenzo Chelleri and Ann Masten have extended this view to urban and social environments, demonstrating how communities can transform through cooperation and support networks. This multi-dimensional understanding helps us to see resilience not only as a response to crises, but as an opportunity to create new, more just and regenerative realities.
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- Rob Hopkins, activist, writer and founder of the Transition movement.
Adaptive Resilience
Scholarly, resilience has become a key concept in understanding how human and ecological systems can face change. Johan Rockström and Crawford S. Holling has highlighted the importance of adaptability and transformation as essential elements to maintain balance in complex systems. Holling, in particular, introduced the idea of adaptive resilience, which focuses on the ability of systems to evolve and improve against alterations.
Lorenzo Chelleri has explored how cities can become urban resilience laboratories, combining ecological regeneration with collective creativity. This view is complemented by the social perspective of Ann Masten, which emphasizes the importance of social and cultural networks as a basis for community resilience. In addition, Fikret Berkes highlights how traditional knowledge of indigenous communities can offer valuable lessons to design resilient systems, both locally and globally.
These perspectives reinforce the need for an integral understanding of resilience, integrating ecological, social and cultural elements to face global challenges from a transformative optic.
Hurricane Eye
We are from a time of change to a change of time. We are in the midst of a global polycrisis that recognizes our social, economic and ecological structures. This historical moment challenges us deeply, but it also offers us the unique opportunity to build a fairer, equitable and regenerative world. In Resilience Earth, we believe that the key to navigating this change is resilience: not as a simple ability to mould to change, but as an active force that allows us to adapt, transform and flourish in the midst of uncertainty.
Since our foundation, before resilience became a fashion word, we have dedicated our work to deepening this concept. Resilience is our foundational capability, developed through years of research, training and practice in universities and communities. We have created frameworks of study and applicable tools that have been implemented in Catalan rural areas and elsewhere, helping territories and groups to strengthen their ability to respond to global and local challenges. We understand that inhabiting the eye of the hurricane, with serenity and clarity, is essential to convert crises into transformation matrices.
We face a world immersed in a deep transition towards an uncertain future. However, we bet to be compatible with this process, driving humanity to find its place in a new planetary homeostasis. In Resilience Earth, we work to make this moment remembered as the one in which we transcended the limits of the past and reached a new threshold of balance, where people and territories fully express their potential. This view leads us to develop solutions that integrate creativity, adaptability and regeneration, turning today's challenges into the basis of a more resilient and fair tomorrow.
In Resilience Earth we nurture the intersectionality of our team, integrating dimensions such as cultural diversity, neurodivergencies and rurality, which gives us a unique plurality of inherent capabilities.
At the same time, we bet on continuous training in disruptive skills and pointers, which allow us to transform these individual dimensions into a wide range of integrated capability. We understand capability as a dynamic synthesis between the unique intrinsic potential of each system and the acquired practical skills, connecting the singular essence of a system with concrete actions to evolve, adapt and align with a living purpose.
In Resilience Earth, we not only acquire innovative skills, but transform them into capabilities adapted to the specific context, incorporating them into a framework that takes into account the capabilities of each consultant. This integration allows us to generate new perspectives, processes and frames with a high potential to accompany change in times of uncertainty. In doing so, we multiply the possibilities of creating significant transformations, aligning actions with shared purposes and contributing to a more resilient and regenerative future.
Creative Caos
