GFSC - Global Facilitators Serving Communities
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Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. (GFSC) emphasizes the importance of rebuilding social networks in community resilience efforts following crises. The organization provides support through mentoring and resources tailored for local facilitators who can strengthen community capacity and self-reliance. GFSC promotes a model for effective response and recovery that focuses on collective learning and leadership, ultimately aiding communities in transforming challenges into opportunities.
GFSC - Global Facilitators Serving Communities
- 1. Building Community Resilience and Self-Reliance GFSC Board of Directors: Lenny Diamond Timothy Karpoff A 501 C3 non-profit Ximena Corbarizo Marieann Shovlin Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 2. GFSC provides mentoring, methods, and materials to strengthen community resilience in times of crisis and change. Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 3. Rebuilding Social Networks What is important: • After a community crisis, rebuilding social networks is as critical as rebuilding the physical environment. • Building a sense of community is as important as helping individuals build their own lives. • Building group resilience is as important as building individual resilience. Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 4. Local Resources… • Group facilitators—and all those who help build a community—are an untapped resource in responding to crisis. • Teachers, doctors, pastors, social workers, community elders, and others—all can help rebuild social networks. • Facilitators have important core skills—and they need additional skills for crisis situations. Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 5. Strengthening Local Capacity • Local communities retain capacity to respond to crisis—and local leaders & facilitators are in best suited to help strengthen this capacity. • Outsiders have very limited ability to help rebuild social networks. • Outsiders can create a dependence mindset in others—and a rescue mindset in themselves. Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 6. How GFSC Can Help GFSC has a model that helps facilitators think and act effectively: • It is based on a social learning • To help groups and communities build resilience and move through crisis to rebuilding and recovery; and • To work alongside and to continue after the work of other crisis intervention organizations. Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 7. Key Points of GFSC Crisis to Resilience Model • Crisis > Change > Choice • Learning as a community • Understanding effective and ineffective behaviors • Applying effective leadership styles • Caring for ourselves as we care for others Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 8. Crisis A symbol for crisis comprised of “danger” and “opportunity” • present in every change/transition • reactions are normal, natural and necessary • never takes away the ability to make choices Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
- 9. What is Resilience? • The ability to face internal or external crisis and not only effectively resolve it but also learn from it, be strengthened by it and emerge transformed by it, both individually and as a group (Brenson-Lazan, 2003). • Resilience requires: Personal Development Interpersonal Development Vision Strategic Thinking Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved. 9
- 10. Building Community Resilience Crisis > Change • Physical • Psychological External • Social • Spiritual DENIAL Crisis & > INITIAL REACTIONS Internal •Existence •Significance •Options •Resources What’s Next? Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved 10
- 11. Crisis > Change > Choice Resilient, Self-Reliant Community Crisis DENIAL OPPORTUNITY ? & > INITIAL > REACTIONS DANGER Unintended Consequences Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved 11
- 12. Building Community Resilience: Stages and Strategies Resilient, Self-reliant s Community tra tegie Associate t ive S Effec Activate Assimilate Accommodate Recovery Stages/Needs Survival Security Autonomy Community Social Climate/ Behaviors Reactive Receptive Proactive Interactive Avoid Abdicate Ineff Automate ectiv e Str ateg Alienate ies Unintended Consequences Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved. 12
- 13. GFSC Global Applications • Medical personal in Taiwan Earthquake • Profesional Facilitators after Hurricane Katrina • Community Groups in Australian Fires • Refugee Shelters after a Colombian town was buried. • Educators after Landslide in Vargas City, Venezuela • Social Workers after Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua • First Responders in Los Angeles, California • Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved 13
- 14. Contact GFSC www.globalfacilitators.org info@globalfacilitators.org Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
Editor's Notes
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- #10: Human resilience is the capacity to survive. It is as much about release from the past as about endurance in the present and arrival in the future. [adapted from Barry Unsworth, “Never Far From Dispair” in NY Times Book Review, 29 March 2009]
- #11: Change is external, causing internal adjustments; learning/rediscovering coping skills; decision-making under stress; evaluating consequences of decisions, for citizens and for communities and responsible leaders, agencies, etc.. Importance of remembering that leaders are also citizens, going through their own process while being responsible for well being of community. Our workshop has techniques to address these issues.
- #12: What is Community Resilience & Self-reliance? After a crisis, how do you and the community rebound? How does a community find their strengths to help one another and move forward as a community? Crises include: N eighborhood fire local school is vandalized Neighborhood children injured/killed in bus accident Snowstorm cuts the power for days, people freeze to death Local plant/factory closed, putting thousands out of work People displaced by Hurricane Katrina, no permanent, housing, jobs Bridge collapse Earthquakes, mudslides, bush fires, drought Change : Normal will never be the same What resources do we have within our community? What do we need temporarily? How do we rebuild our social infrastructure? How do we help ourselves through the process, allowing us to recognize our losses, figure out what we need and how to get there