Mutual Aid -- Resilience Circles take concrete steps toward enhancing personal security by slowly stretching our "mutual aid muscles," which are often badly out of shape. In Session 5 we exchange "gifts and needs," where participants write down things they can offer -- such sewing skills, tools, or child-care -- and things they need. During this activity we gain a new sense of the wealth and abundance present within the group and the community.
Social Action -- Many of our challenges won't be solved through personal or local mutual aid efforts alone. They require us to work together to press for larger state, national and even global changes. While there is no official Resilience Circle social action agenda, many groups choose to take action based on their own values and interests.
Can we see once again that we have organizations "out there" that speak to Kall's notion of "Bottom Up" governance? My wife, Merry (a great authority!) says we can "convert stumbling blocks into steppingstones". We can move beyond coping to thriving, beyond fighting to creating.
To learn more about Resilience Circles, go to the website: http://localcircles.org/what-is-a-resilience-circle/
Research what is in your area. If nothing, can you get some folks together and begin a Resilience Circle?
Your actions do matter.
Research, ask questions, don't take my words. Go see what's happening in your neck of the woods.
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