In this section I post ideas, articles, books, movies or music that I have found and relate in some aspect to resilience. There is a loose categorisation process, but rather than create an infinite number of categories there will be overlap. If you have suggestions of resources for this section please email me, including enough information for me to locate original sources.
A Brief Collapse of Time
We are in lockdown. What day is it? One of the most common comments on social media is the old joke about yesterday, today, tomorrow, everyday.
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Being Self-ish
One of the greatest ironies about the group of professionals to which I belong is this - we often fail to practice what we preach.
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Cultures of Resilience
I sometimes wonder if what we loosely refer to as ‘the arts’ have more to tell us about resilience than ‘the sciences’.
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Don’t make ‘balance’ your goal - rather choose life
I’ve been involved with the whole Stress and Trauma management field for nearly 30 years now, from the safe streets of New Zealand to the disturbing fields of Cambodia and…
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What can ecosystem studies teach us about resilience?
The term ‘resilience’ is applied so widely across a multitudes of disciplines that it faces its own extinction.
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