THINKING ADAPTIVE RESILIENCECulture and the Big Crunch

Plymouth 6 April 2011

MARK ROBINSONTHINKING PRACTICE

‘EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID BEFORE, BUT SINCE NOBODY LISTENS WE HAVE TO KEEP GOING BACK AND BEGINNING ALL OVER AGAIN.’

Andre Gide

‘THE FUNDAMENTAL PARADOX IS THAT CHANGE IS ESSENTIAL, AND YET STABILITY IS NECESSARY.’

C.S. Holling

Adaptive resilience is the capacity to remain productive and true to core purpose and identity whilst absorbing disturbance and adapting with integrity in response to changing circumstances.

Adaptive resilience is the capacity to remain productive and true to core purpose and identity whilst absorbing disturbance and adapting with integrity in response to changing circumstances.

Adaptive resilience is the capacity to remain productive and true to core purpose and identity whilst absorbing disturbance and adapting with integrity in response to changing circumstances.

Adaptive resilience is the capacity to remain productive and true to core purpose and identity whilst absorbing disturbance and adapting with integrity in response to changing circumstances.

‘IT’S NOT THE STRONGEST SPECIES THAT SURVIVE, NOR THE MOST INTELLIGENT, BUT THE MOST RESPONSIVE TO CHANGE.’

Charles Darwin

8 CHARACTERISTICS OF RESILIENCE

RESOURCES+ CHANGE-ORIENTATION= ADAPTIVE RESILIENCE

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ADAPTIVE RESILIENCE

FRUSTRATED

INNOVATION

VULNERABLE

DEPENDENCE

A CREATIVE ECOLOGY?

VALUE

WHAT YOU DO

AND HOW

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO WHAT YOU DO

WHAT IT COSTS

YOU

PARTNERNETWORK

YOUR RELATION

SHIPS

HOW YOU REACH PEOPLE

WHO WANTS

THE VALUE

YOU CREATE

WHERE YOUR INCOME

COMES FROM

RUNNING-TILL-EMPTY OR RENEWABLE ENERGY?

DO WE KNOW...

Who we are and why?What we ‘own’?How our world’s changing?What we have learnt lately?How we might change?

DO WE TAKE ACTION...

Be creative in all we doFind new ways of doingRefuse to get stuckTake responsibilityTake a leap into a new cycle

• Assess self/your ecology• Invest – offer, training and marketing• Collaborate – locally and culturally• Leadership for/through shared purpose and values• Innovate for assets and expertise not novelty• Get ready for change

HOW TO BUILD RESILIENCE?

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