This is the first of the collaborative Omega, Impact Trust, We Contain Multitudes Resilience Practitioner Series, a peer-led deliberative dialogue-based conversation series with a global community seeking to navigate the polycrisis. Resilience Practitioner Series dialogues are led by practitioners from across our networks. They seek to create a safe, but frank, space for dialogue intended to bring a fresh element of global perspective and new opportunities for collaboration. In this conversation, Dr Manu Gupta will reflect on the efforts of SEEDS to explore and reimagine ways in which local communities are responding in times of disaster and how shifting power into the hands of local communities strengthens preparedness and resilience.
Top-down systems have long disempowered the very people with the deepest knowledge of local contexts. This prevents communities from making informed choices and building real resilience. SEEDS believes communities understand their own strengths and weaknesses best Preparedness must therefore be driven by inclusive community leadership and localized solutions.
We will explore strategies to amplify community voice, agency and capacity-building that move beyond one-size-fits-all, boutique approaches toward scaling principles that enable diverse communities to lead preparedness and response across recurrent, varied crises. This is one way to build societies that are truly resilient at their core.
This will be an interactive conversation on Zoom. Following the format of the EQ Lab’s Dialogic Innovation and Learning System (DILS), conversations are not intended to “find solutions”. Rather they seek to expand our ways of thinking and doing, to make space for different perspectives, shared insights and learnings to emerge. The dialogic approach allows contextual insights to emerge through meaningful participatory engagement.
Join us to discuss the role of communities in creating hope, agency and real change in times of disaster.
The live event will take place on Tuesday, 21st November 2023 at 8am PST / 4pm UK.
Below are some sample times/locations:
- 8:00 am San Francisco, USA
- 10:00 am Bogota, Colombia
- 11:00 am New York City, USA
- 4:00 pm London, UK
- 5:00 pm Brussels, Belgium
- 6:00 pm Johannesburg, South Africa
- 7:00 pm Nairobi, Kenya
- 9:30 pm New Delhi, India
Everyone is warmly welcome to attend this webinar but please note: this webinar will be exploring resilience strategies, practices and methodologies and there will be no funding opportunities or financial support offered in this session. If you are unable to attend the live event, we encourage you to sign up anyway as a link to the recording will be sent to those who register.
Manu Gupta, Co-Founder, SEEDS
Manu Gupta is building disaster resilient communities across Asia Pacific. He has been at the forefront of championing and advocating for citizen-led initiatives globally for nearly three decades. He is Co-Founder of SEEDS, an award winning non-profit organisation that enables community resilience through practical solutions in the areas of disaster readiness, response, and rehabilitation. Manu is an Ashoka Fellow, and holds degree in Urban Planning and a doctorate in community-based disaster management from Kyoto University, Japan.
This is the first of the collaborative Omega, Impact Trust, We Contain Multitudes Resilience Practitioner Series, a peer-led deliberative dialogue-based conversation series with a global community seeking to navigate the polycrisis. Resilience Practitioner Series dialogues are led by practitioners from across our networks. They seek to create a safe, but frank, space for dialogue intended to bring a fresh element of global perspective and new opportunities for collaboration. In this conversation, Dr Manu Gupta will reflect on the efforts of SEEDS to explore and reimagine ways in which local communities are responding in times of disaster and how shifting power into the hands of local communities strengthens preparedness and resilience.
Top-down systems have long disempowered the very people with the deepest knowledge of local contexts. This prevents communities from making informed choices and building real resilience. SEEDS believes communities understand their own strengths and weaknesses best Preparedness must therefore be driven by inclusive community leadership and localized solutions.
We will explore strategies to amplify community voice, agency and capacity-building that move beyond one-size-fits-all, boutique approaches toward scaling principles that enable diverse communities to lead preparedness and response across recurrent, varied crises. This is one way to build societies that are truly resilient at their core.
This will be an interactive conversation on Zoom. Following the format of the EQ Lab’s Dialogic Innovation and Learning System (DILS), conversations are not intended to “find solutions”. Rather they seek to expand our ways of thinking and doing, to make space for different perspectives, shared insights and learnings to emerge. The dialogic approach allows contextual insights to emerge through meaningful participatory engagement.
Join us to discuss the role of communities in creating hope, agency and real change in times of disaster.
The live event will take place on Tuesday, 21st November 2023 at 8am PST / 4pm UK.
Below are some sample times/locations:
- 8:00 am San Francisco, USA
- 10:00 am Bogota, Colombia
- 11:00 am New York City, USA
- 4:00 pm London, UK
- 5:00 pm Brussels, Belgium
- 6:00 pm Johannesburg, South Africa
- 7:00 pm Nairobi, Kenya
- 9:30 pm New Delhi, India
Everyone is warmly welcome to attend this webinar but please note: this webinar will be exploring resilience strategies, practices and methodologies and there will be no funding opportunities or financial support offered in this session. If you are unable to attend the live event, we encourage you to sign up anyway as a link to the recording will be sent to those who register.
Manu Gupta, Co-Founder, SEEDS
Manu Gupta is building disaster resilient communities across Asia Pacific. He has been at the forefront of championing and advocating for citizen-led initiatives globally for nearly three decades. He is Co-Founder of SEEDS, an award winning non-profit organisation that enables community resilience through practical solutions in the areas of disaster readiness, response, and rehabilitation. Manu is an Ashoka Fellow, and holds degree in Urban Planning and a doctorate in community-based disaster management from Kyoto University, Japan.