Conversations on Resilience
a Gaia Education Webinar Series
At Gaia Education, we want our participants to learn how to prepare and respond, becoming more resilient at the psychological (worldview), social, economic and ecological levels. We believe that the best way to be resilient is by creating regenerative communities and households and cultivating regenerative livelihoods for all.
In this webinar series we are inviting speakers, activists and authors who have been researching, documenting, working and teaching about resilience in communities.
Join us throughout the sessions and come to the forefront of the conversation about making our communities stronger and more resilient! Below you will find the registration link for each webinar.
🌟 Also, this series of events is part of the launch of our new course: Design for Resilience.
Everyone who registers for any webinar will receive a 25% off bonus for enrolling in the course!
May 18th
Oscar Gussinyer
and Erika Zárate
Resilience Earth is a non-profit cooperative dedicated to accompanying social and ecological movements, organisations and local governments so that they can leverage deep systemic change in their collectives, communities and bioregions. They work from a systemic perspective and are specialists in the areas of regenerative development, community resilience and transformative economy.
June 28th
Tom Llewellyn
Tom Llewellyn is the interim executive director for Shareable, a nonprofit news + action hub promoting people-powered solutions for the common good. As part of his role at Shareable, he is the executive producer and host of the award-winning documentary and podcast series “The Response,” co-producer of the "Cities@Tufts Lectures Podcast," and leads communications for the Rural Power Coalition.
July 14th
Bob Doppelt
Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health, social service, disaster management, climate, and faith organizations and professionals (website: http://itrcoalitionorg). He is trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science and has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest, The Netherlands, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor. He is also a former Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.
August 11th
Rosemary Morrow
For almost 40 years Rowe has worked extensively with farmers and villagers in Africa, Central and South East Asia and Eastern Europe, especially dedicating the last few years to refugees in camps – the people of war-torn nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Syria Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Kurdistan and East Timor, and to communities experiencing the serious effects of climate change like the Solomon Islands, and the effects of the GFC, like Spain, Greece and Portugal.
August 25th
Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. He is the founder of the Deep Transformation Network, a global community exploring pathways to an ecological civilization, and the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth.
September 9th
Prof. Jem Bendell
Professor Jem Bendell is a world-renowned scholar on the breakdown of modern societies due to environmental change. Downloaded over a million times, his Deep Adaptation paper is credited with inspiring the growth of the Extinction Rebellion movement in 2018, and also created a global network to reduce harm in the face of societal collapse.
Webinar Host
Silvia Di Blasio
Silvia is Gaia Education academic and eLearning coordinator. She also co-facilitates the Worldview Dimension of the GEDS in Spanish, the Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods course and the Design for Resilience course.
Silvia holds a certificate in Permaculture, a certificate in Disaster Management and is a Gaia Education Certified Trainer. She has experience in various fields and has years of experience in community resilience and related fields.
🌟 NEW COURSE 🌟
🌟 NEW COURSE 🌟
Design for Resilience
Design for Resilience
Supporting individuals and communities through deep adaptation and emergency preparedness
In this course, we will use a whole systems approach, incorporating interdisciplinary tools (resilience science and practice, Art of Hosting, Theory of U, Transformational Resilience, Permaculture and the practical tools from disaster management and emergency preparedness).
Using the VUCA context tool (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) we will guide you to map your household and community and support you on designing integrated and resilient systems, from inner to physical.
This is a hands-on, very practical and fun course where you will come up with a realistic plan for you, your family and your community!
🎁 Everyone registered for any webinar will receive a 25% off bonus for enrolling in the course!