About

Resilient Ecosystems

Mission: To be the toolbox communities need to become engaged, connected, and resilient!

We are your partner, we have your back, and together, your future!

Resilient Ecosystems has one simple goal, to help communities become resilient and thrive!
What does this mean to your community?

The ability to overcome and recover from crisis.
Local industry/capacity development, which is jobs and security.
Developing essential needs for people to thrive like food, water, power, communication, transportation.
Community integration, cross communication, and responsiveness, creating the support structures we all need, but are lacking.
A representative voice in the choices made and grassroots power to drive the fundamental changes we need.

How do we meet this goal? By developing the tools and connections necessary to build community and community resilience. RESECO has a pretty good toolbox to start this process with, and can help you build yours.
Who owns these projects? The communities and you do!

Education

Or perhaps, unlearning would be a better starting point. Words have so much power to shape how we understand, or misunderstand the subject. Education is a loaded word that means so much more than the word itself, depending on your orientation. What our school system does is not education but indoctrination; for more about this read John Taylor Gatto's, Underground History of American Education. What Resilient Ecosystems provides is perspective and some re-education into developing relationships and community. Our process is interactive and group oriented, leading to a solid understanding and shared experience in connecting and developing grassroots efforts. We focus on guiding you into an awareness of your humanity and the humanity of those around you, letting you embrace community in ways you have not before.

Facilitation

Facilitation is the process of bringing a room of strangers who hold a stake in an outcome, each with vastly different approaches and points of view, and guiding them into agreement on a common goal. That goal is then explored, utilizing each diverse point of view and approach to develop a roadmap to achieve the desired outcome. Resilient Ecosystems has interest in the outcomes but holds no stake, making RESECO excellent facilitators.

Mediation

While the process of facilitation is about agreements, setting goals, and working together, Mediation is about helping overcome conflict. Similar skills are used, however, mediation is about removing the roadblock caused by conflict so that facilitation can take place. A reminder about all of these processes, the work is done by the people, the community, and not the organization. You own the projects, we help you achieve the goals that make them successful.

Uniting Communities

The foundation for developing resilient communities is you, you and your neighborhood. To build anything lasting you need a good foundation, one built to last. For the change needed to develop resilience and drive necessary change, you need a human movement. The strongest way to lay this foundation is one neighborhood at a time. Engaging neighbors is mutually beneficial efforts and goal setting until they find commonality and become connected and engaged.

Grassroots Coordination

When we hear the term Grassroots, we tend to think of political protest or short term social movements. In reality, the Constitution of these United States is based on Grassroots philosophy... "We the People". What is needed now is a concerted grassroots effort with long term goals based on relationship building, agreement, priorities and need.

Framework Development

And then there is the supporting process, the plan, the glue, and the roadmap to make it all work. We tend to think of it like a Jigsaw Puzzle, where we have put together the edges, the framework, and you bring your piece. If we are going to address our human needs, we need to have diverse input from the greater community in all of its various forms. Everyone has a perspective, a skill set, a range of knowledge based on their life experiences. We need these building blocks to create a future where we can work together, support each other, build resilience, community and a world where our children can thrive.

Supporting Resilient Ecosystems is an investment in yourself, your family and your community.
Resilient Communities Thrive!

Starting points

Meet & Greets, and events

Connect with other caring folks, become a member of Resiliency Rocks, our Facebook Group, and become part of the effort to create community resilience!

Workshops

We need to relearn how to embrace our humanity, our diversity, and our fellow man.
Join us for the community workshop series!
Twelve two-hour, interactive sessions that will take you from how we got here to empowerment with a set of tools that will help you connect and change the world.

The neighborhood

First we need to lay a foundation on which to build the future; that foundation is your neighborhood. Join together with Resilient Ecosystems, G2 and our growing partnership to host a community BBQ and begin the conversations!
Changing the world starts next door!

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