I was inspired by the Resilience Tree as a metaphor for resilience. I was also hooked into the idea of how a tree, leaves and fruit could be utilised as a communication tool for describing resilience and a method for gaining insights from people about their own resilience, resilient practice, resilience of others and what they might do differently given the opportunity.
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The Blackpool model helps people think through how to work individually with a child, through their family, at school and in the community to enhance resilience. They have turned this into a planning tool to ask what they are doing with individual pupils, targeted pupils, and universal (all).
Read MoreSimon spoke eloquently of his life, from being born in advance – which had caused cerebral palsy and an inability to use his legs – to his own defiant route to create better than expected outcomes. Simon paid enormous homage to his mother and the huge effort she made in altering her son’s environment so that he had the best chance to succeed.
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Bringing different people together, with different skills, interests, knowledge and experience is my day job. Often there are 2 or 3, sometimes a few more and all of them are interested in the same topic. A few weeks ago, I found myself in a room with 30 people: university students, academics, creative professionals, parents, community groups, young people, artists. Together we were looking at the Resilience Framework to see in what ways we could bring it to life.
Read MoreWe are at a friendly but sweltering Connected Communities Conference (CCFest 2015) to learn from others and present our work on the Imagine project. Our work is about using resilience approaches to imagine better futures and make them happen. And we’re doing this in loads of different countries and loads of different settings.
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