WARM is a new tool to help communities understand their underlying needs and capacities. It brings together a wide range of indicators to measure wellbeing (how people feel about themselves and their communities) and resilience (the capacity of people and communities to bounce back after shock or in the face of adversity).
Resilience Forum
How we might use resilience and strengths-based research for learning and teaching about health and social inequalities and how we might develop this together, between the University and Community?
An overview of the concept of resilience as incorporated into a framework for practice in child welfare and protection. Ways in which practitioners are already applying the concept in practice will be explored, drawing on research into the operationalisation of resilience.
Does resilience change the way we think about inequalities and the struggle for social justice? Or should inequalities change the way we think about resilience? What does it mean to work in a way that recognises the strength of the evidence on the wider determinants of mental wellbeing?
Jamie introduced some core models of hoping, and argued that certain types of hope may obscure our sense of agency in meeting life’s challenges. The aim of this was to promote discussion of personal experiences of hoping.
Our Resilience – Why bother? Conference was held in the lovely seaside town of Brighton in April 2011 and welcomed hundreds of resilience folk from a variety of backgrounds and countries.
This session offered the chance to discuss a few resilience articles to get us in the mood for the Resilience – Why bother? Conference we hosted in Brighton in April 2011, including the work of Michael Ungar, our conference keynote speaker.
Our fourth Resilience Forum heard from Paul Hoggett and Yvon Guest from the University of the West of England, who opened up some of the small and large politics of resilience in the UK at the present time.
