Responsible Humans: Identifying Community Leadership
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1.Unique social experiment that develops truly sustainable community resilience.
2.Tools that assist in motivating communities to become self-aware and responsible
3.An insight into disaster preparedness from a community development perspective
1 INTRODUCTION
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Jarrod Coburn
• CEO and co-founder of NZRT
• Volunteer Sector
• Community Organisations
• Local Government
• Paramedic (BLS)
• Civil Defence
• Victoria University of Wellington
1 INTRODUCTION
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
“Sometimes it does us a power of good to remind ourselves that we live on two volcanic rocks where two tectonic plates meet, in a somewhat lonely stretch of windswept ocean just above the Roaring Forties…
…if you want dramayou’ve come to theright place.” Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former NZ Prime Minister
Resilience
• Norris et al. (2008)
• Opposite of “Vulnerability”
• Reaction to adversity
• Emergent property
• Four attributes:
Social Capital
Skills & Competence
Equity
Information Flow
1 Introduction
2 WHAT IS RESILIENCE?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
EquityInformation
Flow
SocialCapital
Skills &Competence
CommunityResilience
CommunityVulnerability
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ RESILIENCE TRUST
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
New Zealand Resilience Trust
• Third sector
• “Charitable Trust” status
• Umbrella organization
• Buffer
• Ambulance service
• National projects
Research
Councilwatch.org.nz
Residents.org.nz
Planning contradicts faith
• Risk adversity
• “How bad could it be?”
• Effectiveness of plan
• Self-determination
• Self-awareness
• The basics:
Attitude
Ability
Faith
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 PLAN VS. FAITH
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Motivation is a key skill
• Epidemic of unpreparedness
• Social marketing $$$
• Excuses
• Fear
• Truth and honesty
• Know-how to solve problem
• Community education
• NZ Resilience Corps
• Training
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 MOTIVATING OTHERS
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Leadership
• Self-reliance
• Weak Links
Natural born networkers
Familiar faces
Source of intelligence
• Keystones
Natural born leaders
Driven & passionate
Vox populus
• Listen, listen, listen!
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 IDENTIFYING LEADERS
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Building sustainable resilience
• Organisation-based
• “Perpetuity”
• 100% community owned
• Give away power
• Self-funding
• Many and often
• Distributive network
• Intra-networking
• Share common resources
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 SUSTAINABILITY
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
ResearchEducationTraining
Local ProjectsNetworking
Increases Social CapitalIncreases Social Capital
Improves CompetenceImproves Competence
Boosts Information SharingBoosts Information Sharing
Problems…
• Community engagement
• Bureaucracy
• Politics
• Financial cost
…and solutions
• Slow down!
• Indirect support
• Community ownership
• Are you kidding?!
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 PROBLEMS…
9 Tools for You
Tools
#1 The shiny new shovel
#2 The trusty “Humble Pie”-maker
#3 Industrial-strength hearing aids
#4 Change of old clothing
#5 Brush and dustbin
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 TOOLS FOR YOU
Conclusion
Self-managing communities
Leadership from within
Resources already exist
Inform and equip