Using the tools of Nature to Breakthrough for Resilience with Pamela Candea

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Using the tools of Nature to Breakthrough for Resilience with Pamela Candea

60-minute table workshop

Date and time

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:00 - 04:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

This workshop is part of ICE-5 Ecolinguistics in Action: Tackling real-world issue. More information on ice5.org

The Surefoot Effect CIC has been engaged in assisting those working to tackle climate change since its inception in 2012. In late 2019 we were awarded an Erasmus+ Grant to work on the Breakthrough for Resilience project with partners in Greece, Sweden, and Italy. People have connections with Placesfor many reasons. Communities are shaped by the Places in which they exist. Places are shaped by People, not always taking into account protection of the Place. Communities are created by and of people and shape the people in them. This project will look at how the connections between people, place and community can create resilience using approaches or tools in each of these areas, exploring how each model, method, or technique can be used to promote resilience in the other two aspects. For example, the principles of nature conservancy can be applied to fostering resilience in people and in communities too. As an example, The Wheel of Life technique for personal resilience will be examined for use in places and communities. Similarly, the processes used in nature conservancy for establishing resilience for ecosystems will be examined for applicability to people and community. Through this the project will increase awareness of humans as part of a larger ecosystem. We will use our research to develop a workshop to help people break through the boundaries between the concepts of people, place and community to see how these tools can bring benefit across all 3 areas. This table workshop will explore how natural systems and nature conservancy tools can be adapted to reconnect people with the rest of nature and build personal resilience and tackle eco-anxiety as well as building more environmentally beneficial interactions between people, places and communities in this environmentally challenging time.

Pamela Candea, founding Director of The Surefoot Effect, CIC, trains group work facilitators, runs personal resilience workshops, assists community groups with defining and implementing their values into their work, and works with corporates to lower their carbon impacts. She is a Natural Change facilitator, a programme offering transformative experiences of nature. After an award for Social Innovation from The Melting Pot, Edinburgh, set up Surefoot which supports practitioners working for values-based change. Surefoot recently created a graphic novel about the Climate Emergency with European partners in an Erasmus+ Project and is now engaged its 3rd Erasmus+ project on Resilience.

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