Approach

A collective resilience consulting approach blends consulting work with grassroots community groups, families, individuals, neighborhoods, ethnic communities, other community configurations, and the organizations that support them. The approach is systemic, and works with the resilience that is inherent in human systems. A strengths-based and asset-based perspective and methodology is utilized, highlighting intergenerational strengths and values within families and communities. Steps to take toward cohesion and healing, and actions to build community, evolve out of the narratives, the stories, that we all have and that tell of our collective resilience. Awareness of resilience, mapping of community, fostering inclusiveness, lead to action that is self-determined, leading to resolution of trauma and injustices suffered, building ever widening support within communities and through the organizations providing support. This is work that flows from the microcosm through the macrocosm, designed to reveal paths to collective healing, greater societal understanding and justice. Collective Resilience guides, facilitates and follows up, linking approaches for a distinct synergy that occurs within the organism that is Community.