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“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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Your invitation to explore
The following pages are full of information, the depth you wish to dive into depends on you. The first three tabs, RESECO Home, About and it's sub tabs, and the Mechanics will give you an overview of the approach and an introduction to the team, philosophy, and reasoning behind the work. The Kitsap Resiliency Project tab will introduce you to the inaugural project and the process of it's development. We will be adding a journal of progress at a later date, so that you can see the challenges and solutions of building the first one. The final tab, Creating a Human World, is multilayered and in great depth. It provides a series of pages with information on the why, the how, the what, and the solutions to our broken systems. Again, this is your invitation to explore. If you wish to engage, either locally or globally, reach out via email, or follow us on Facebook!
Welcome Aboard!
Welcome Aboard!
WHAT YOU WILL FIND HERE
Engaging in a resilient community project on your own can seem overwhelming, where would you even start? This is a question we had so many times along the way!
Resilient Ecosystems has a framework to accomplish this and so much more! We engage with you and others in your community teaching you how to connect and communicate, giving you the tools to start. We work with you and your community to develop a project that meets your needs and can be owned by your community. We help develop messaging, social media, websites, agendas, all based on your specific needs, and desires.
What is the price of security and resilience?
Your time, commitment, and the engagement of your community as we move forward. We ask that you and some of your people subscribe to Patreon to support our work for you and others. While $20 a month is probably do-able for you and your community, it adds up to an operating budget for RESECO that lets us work without chasing money, or the community needing to come up with large sums to engage us.
Engaging in a resilient community project on your own can seem overwhelming, where would you even start? This is a question we had so many times along the way!
Resilient Ecosystems has a framework to accomplish this and so much more! We engage with you and others in your community teaching you how to connect and communicate, giving you the tools to start. We work with you and your community to develop a project that meets your needs and can be owned by your community. We help develop messaging, social media, websites, agendas, all based on your specific needs, and desires.
What is the price of security and resilience?
Your time, commitment, and the engagement of your community as we move forward. We ask that you and some of your people subscribe to Patreon to support our work for you and others. While $20 a month is probably do-able for you and your community, it adds up to an operating budget for RESECO that lets us work without chasing money, or the community needing to come up with large sums to engage us.
This is the rest of our story...enjoy it!
RESECO
Resilient Ecosystems (RESECO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to engaging communities in the development of resilience... and so much more!
Perspective and Intent
The starting point for every endeavor is to gain greater perspective. We are where we are, you are where you are because of our current perspective and the limitations of that perspective on our ability to see other paths forward. Part of that limitation comes with our acceptance of the "rules" our society puts on us almost from birth. Perspective will allow us to see the flaws in those rules and to find ways to create a better set of guidelines to live by. Perspective allows us to see the brokenness of our current social contract, our "culture", and how it offers a distorted window into what our humanity is and to how we perceive the world around us. Perspective enables us to see and understand that this toxic cultural contract does not support our shared humanity but perverts it for the benefit of the few while the rest of us slowly succumb to the symptoms of the disease, unable to succeed by the standards set. Perspective lets us realize that the things that keep us separate from our fellow humans are manufactured to keep us apart and othered. Even the language of the cultural construct hinders our ability to see true intent and to take offense even when none was intended. This is why gaining perspective is the only starting point there is to start this journey to our shared humanity.
The starting point for every endeavor is to gain greater perspective. We are where we are, you are where you are because of our current perspective and the limitations of that perspective on our ability to see other paths forward. Part of that limitation comes with our acceptance of the "rules" our society puts on us almost from birth. Perspective will allow us to see the flaws in those rules and to find ways to create a better set of guidelines to live by. Perspective allows us to see the brokenness of our current social contract, our "culture", and how it offers a distorted window into what our humanity is and to how we perceive the world around us. Perspective enables us to see and understand that this toxic cultural contract does not support our shared humanity but perverts it for the benefit of the few while the rest of us slowly succumb to the symptoms of the disease, unable to succeed by the standards set. Perspective lets us realize that the things that keep us separate from our fellow humans are manufactured to keep us apart and othered. Even the language of the cultural construct hinders our ability to see true intent and to take offense even when none was intended. This is why gaining perspective is the only starting point there is to start this journey to our shared humanity.
The Human Way
We often hear the question: "Why is it so hard?"
It should not be, but why is it? Because we are not following a human path, one that embraces our humanity, one that supports our core needs.
That is just our human nature, right? That is the way it always has been, and we cannot change it... right? I/we have done all of the self help programs, we are part of our church community, we do good work, how is this not the human way? We donate to the big foundations who are funding the efforts to help, we are doing what we are supposed to do, right?
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These questions are not about you, please don't take them personally. They are being asked to illustrate the state of our society and it's affect on us all. Almost everyone is going to feel angry about these questions, Why?
Because they are almost universally shared, and they represent those things we hide from others, and even from ourselves. They are what looks back at us from our mirror, what wakes us up, what drives us to do more of things that don't work. Most importantly, they show us how far we have gone from our Human Way. |
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If you can assess yourself and your life in an honest and forthright way you can gain perspective. If it is not working, acknowledge that and own your ability to change the outcome. Perspective gives you the power to find better ways, relationship gives you the power of synergy. Life is a journey better traveled in company, mistakes are the way we learn and grow, and walking the path to a better life together is simply human. The Human Way is to journey together, learning, creating synergy, connecting, and creating relationships and support networks, being there for others and helping whenever you can. The human way is about creating a world that supports and embraces our humanity, and doing so together. When we succeed the answers to those questions change, our lives change, the world changes.
Can you make time for that?
Remember that:
Can you make time for that?
Remember that:
"It always seems impossible until it's done." ~ Nelson Mandela
A Social Contract
In the simplest terms, a social contract is an agreement on how people will live together. Here is the dictionary definition:
- An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
If we look at the cultural framework in which we live as our "social contract" we see that it is a bad contract that serves very few of us. What Resilient Ecosystems does is help people and their communities assess their role in our current social contract, see the real world beyond the framework and to determine what needs to be rewritten so that they have a more equitable foundation on which to build resilience and to "thrive".
Our work is based on our humanity and the realities of the world as it is, including the results of living in our current social contract and the devastation it has created. If we understand that the current structure was "programmed" by the few that benefit the most from it, we can see where the core problem is. What we do is help you and your community to learn how to come together, find commonality and gain the perspective to see beyond what our current contract presents. Once we get to this point, we can begin the process of reprogramming the social contract to meet our needs.
The jigsaw puzzle is a perfect metaphor. The edges we have laid out is the framework; the education, facilitation, the perspective. We ask you to bring the pieces to the center of the puzzle, where we can all determine what the picture needs to be. The final step is putting the puzzle together, which is easier with many hands.
- An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
If we look at the cultural framework in which we live as our "social contract" we see that it is a bad contract that serves very few of us. What Resilient Ecosystems does is help people and their communities assess their role in our current social contract, see the real world beyond the framework and to determine what needs to be rewritten so that they have a more equitable foundation on which to build resilience and to "thrive".
Our work is based on our humanity and the realities of the world as it is, including the results of living in our current social contract and the devastation it has created. If we understand that the current structure was "programmed" by the few that benefit the most from it, we can see where the core problem is. What we do is help you and your community to learn how to come together, find commonality and gain the perspective to see beyond what our current contract presents. Once we get to this point, we can begin the process of reprogramming the social contract to meet our needs.
The jigsaw puzzle is a perfect metaphor. The edges we have laid out is the framework; the education, facilitation, the perspective. We ask you to bring the pieces to the center of the puzzle, where we can all determine what the picture needs to be. The final step is putting the puzzle together, which is easier with many hands.
RESECO is here to help you!
IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT PEOPLE, RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION
"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
To meet the needs of today, tomorrow, and the next day, we need to come together and take control of our local ecosystems and assure that they meet our needs, today and tomorrow, and the next day.
It really is simple... Find common ground, connect and learn to work together.
Simple does not mean easy...
Simple does not mean easy...
The challenge is learning to do this in our culture of divisiveness. This is where Resilient Ecosystems becomes the friend you need with the tools to help get the job done. We work with you and your community, side by side, helping you connect and develop common goals that will bring you together and become resilient.
The Wolf You Feed
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One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." |
