Selogadi Mampane travelled all the way from Pretoria to give the Resilience Forum a live preview of her arts activist approach for young people, which is being used as part of the Patterns of Resilience to Drought project taking place in South Africa.
This theatre workshop focussed on “the self as a starting point” using mapping to explore, communicate, share and make sense of personal narratives in relation to wider issues of human security, such as drought.
Helen introduced what life was really like in her family before her involvement in the world of resilience, and how she and her boys have, separately and together, progressed along their life journeys over the last 10 years.
Professor Jacqueline Barnes, developmental psychologist and director of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues at Birkbeck, University of London, spoke about research into how young parents can be helped to be more resilient. She explained that key research in this field very much fits the ecological approach to resilience that we in Boingboing follow.
A brief summary of the Family Nurse Partnership and highlights of the evidence that it can make a difference for vulnerable mothers and their children.
Today we’ve got Ivana Maurovic from the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Zagreb giving a talk. She’s over here working with us on our mutual resilience research. Challenges in conceptualisation and operationalisation of family resilience is the catchy title of her talk.
Family Resilience is a concept that has wide and deep roots, ranging from the development of the concept of individual resilience to the postulates of General and Family Systems Theory.
Phil started the session by acknowledging the range of experience and expertise in the room. He shared his desire to learn alongside the group and not just impart knowledge, and said that systems theory, an abstract meta-theory, can be difficult to understand and apply to practice. Collective sigh of relief from those who had attempted prior reading that they were not alone in their struggle!
Phil talked about how systems theory can help us understand how situating resilience-building activities within an understanding of complex dynamic systems can help to identify “leverage points” in aspects such as the rules, goals and power distributions.
Many of our previous Resilience Forums have slides you can download and blogs you can read, some even have films you can watch.
