Learning our way toward resilience

Abstract

IN THE SIMPLEST TERMS, resilience education is about building our individual and community capacities to flourish in times of tremendous transition. It strengthens our ability to weather the inevitable adversity that comes with system transformation. It gives us a systems lens through which to understand the forces driving change at multiple scales. It harnesses the creative energy of people, enabling work across cultural divides to increase the sustainability of our social-ecological systems. At its heart, it cultivates virtues like courage, humility, and frugality, which help us preserve what we most value in our communities.