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Facilitators: Stanley Wu, Oren Slozberg

Topic: Resilience Within Climate Chaos, Part 2

Join us for a conversation on what practical resilience means for retreat centers in the context of hurricane Helene’s devastating impacts. 

We want to hear from you if your community and retreat were impacted by this recent storm. What you have learned and how you are responding?

Secondly, we will explore together a scenario where natural disasters are exacerbated by climate change. Imagine a scenario where this power is out for a week or more, displaced refugees are looking for shelter, emergency response is overwhelmed, stores are low on food, and tap water is unsafe to drink. How would you respond in this scenario?

Scenario work offers several key benefits: 

1. Improve decision making: explore possible futures and informed decisions. 

2. Enhance preparedness: identify potential risks and opportunities. 

3. Strategic flexibility: encourages adaptive strategies.

4. Challenge assumptions: reveals and questions deeply held assumptions. 

5. Fosters creativity: stimulates innovative thinking. 

We can use scenario work to increase our adaptive capacity and support resilient decision making. Given the fact that natural disasters are increasingly frequent and impactful, how do we prepare for a future many of us will most likely need to navigate?