gfsc - global facilitators serving communities
DESCRIPTION
Global Facilitators Serving Communities was founded in 2002 as a 501c3 organization to support local efforts in facilitating sustainable change in communities and organizations in crisis. Their work has spanned a global reach in the United States, China, the Philippines and Latin America. Their impact has helped in Katrina in New Orleans, hurricanes and tornadoes in Asia and environmental disasters in Latin America. Contact them at [email protected].TRANSCRIPT
GFSC Board of Directors:Lenny DiamondTimothy KarpoffXimena CorbarizoMarieann Shovlin
A 501 C3 non-profit
Building Community Building Community Resilience Resilience
and Self-Relianceand Self-Reliance
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GFSC provides mentoring, methods,
and materials to strengthen community
resilience in times of crisis and change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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CrisisA 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
• present in every change/transition
• reactions are normal, natural and necessary
• never takes away the ability to make choices
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• 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
What is Resilience?
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•Existence•Significance•Options•Resources
• Physical• Psychological• Social• Spiritual
Building Community ResilienceCrisisCrisis > > ChangeChange
What’s Next?What’s Next?
DENIAL &
INITIAL REACTIONS>>
CrisisCrisis
ExternalExternal
InternalInternal
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OPPORTUNITYOPPORTUNITY
Resilient, Resilient, Self-ReliantSelf-Reliant CommunityCommunity
UnintendedUnintendedConsequencesConsequences
DANGERDANGER
DENIAL &
INITIAL REACTIONS
CrisisCrisis > > ChangeChange > > ChoiceChoice
>> >>??CrisisCrisis
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Ineffective Strategies
Ineffective Strategies
Effective Strategies
Effective Strategies
AccommodateAccommodate
AssimilateAssimilate
ActivateActivate
AssociateAssociate
AbdicateAbdicate
AutomateAutomate
AlienateAlienate
Building Community Resilience: Stages and Strategies
SurvivalSurvival SecuritySecurity AutonomyAutonomy CommunityCommunity
ReactiveReactive ReceptiveReceptive ProactiveProactive InteractiveInteractive
AvoidAvoid
Unintended Unintended ConsequencesConsequences
Resilient, Resilient, Self-reliant Self-reliant CommunityCommunity
Social Climate/Social Climate/BehaviorsBehaviors
RecoveryRecoveryStages/NeedsStages/Needs
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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
Global Facilitator Serving Communities, Inc. © 2012. All rights reserved.
Contact GFSC
www.globalfacilitators.org