responsible humans: identifying community leadership

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