Free community resilience workshops offered from mid-June
Our governments and combat agencies are giving us the message that when it comes to disasters and other challenges, they simply cannot be everywhere at every moment, so it is fundamental that we, as communities, build our own capacities.
Resilient Byron, with funding from the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, is offering the chance to do just that. We have partnered with OzGreen to provide “Resilient Communities”, a series of free workshops that allow communities to generate their own solutions to local and global concerns, focusing on seven key areas, which include climate change, fire and ecosystems, water, food, infrastructures and economy, and health resilience.
Resilient Communities is action-oriented. It uses OzGreen’s award-winning community engagement process to empower people to take personal and collective action to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from future disasters such as drought, bushfire, heatwave, flood, storm, community infrastructure damage and health emergencies.
The workshops are free, start mid-June and we offer participants to tackle these big topics once a month, for seven months. Workshops are provided in several locations of the Byron Shire and surrounding shires by local residents trained by OzGreen and Resilient Byron.
This bottom-up series of workshops lets you take things into your own hands, to pick up the reins and find the answers together. Nobody knows your area better than your own community and each community is only as strong as the individuals who make it up.
Through the monthly Resilient Communities workshops, space will be created to explore a topic aimed at building the resilience of your community. A simple process of strategic questioning and deep listening is facilitated by members of your own neighbourhood trained by Sue Lennox, last year's NSW senior citizen of the year.
Get inspired and watch a short video of a previous Resilient Communities workshop held in Bellingen and Bangalow.
Come together and create your own pathways to inspired action. For you. By you.
(Photos kindly provided by Carly Sari)