Most of our event during COVID”19 time, people shared stories of resilience, creativity and inspiration. They expressed joy in reconnecting while acknowledging how tough these last couple of years have been.   More than anything people expressed their gratitude for coming out as a strong community.

Resilience Start with us Our support to envision and implement our future on Resilience.  For us is the capacity to recover quickly from challenges, especially the COVID crises, as well as the courage to be our authentic selves and move beyond the constructs that are assigned to us.

We are faced with a number of planning challenges and wicked problems today: the anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, we are against the people who express discriminatory or hateful views including but not limited to race, nationality or ethnicity, origin, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, or disability, those who advocate intolerance, discrimination and/or prejudice, promoting offensive content or discourse,  fear of others, intolerance of difference; lack of inclusion and diversity in our institutional leadership and in engagement conversations; the climate crisis and the disproportionate impacts of the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations; housing affordability, adequate and suitable housing, and Mental Health is huge on every one.

At Resilience Planning, we recognize that to successfully address these challenges, innovation is necessary and is closely tied to equity, diversity, inclusion and justice. We believe that equity, diversity, inclusion and justice improves innovative solutions to our wicked problems. Our Leadership team recognizes this and offers opportunities to unlock innovation across our organization, with other partiners locally, region, country-wide or glabally, creating opportunities for plans and policies that respond to what our people and our environment need.

We dismantle barriers to civic participation, creating safe and brave spaces for ideas to be shared, to help ensure that more people, especially those who are underrepresented in civic engagement, can bring their lived experiences and knowledge as respected contributors to affect policy changes that benefit the communities.  Giving decision-making power to those impacted by policy recognizes and trusts that communities know what they need. It as well secures buy-in, celebrates shared success and builds momentum. We are also faced with personal problems of dealing with the stress and trauma impacting us from living within systems that are designed to prevent people from thriving.

We will use Research and facilitation, in a planning context, we will work closely with our community members creating brave and safe spaces to address challenges, for people to be seen, to be heard and to be understood