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What is resilience?  Resilience is the ability of a substance to return to its usual shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed. Applied to humans, this is the ability that allows some people knocked down by the adversities of life to come back at least as strong as before. Applied to mankind, this is the…

Project Update Let’s update! It’s been a while since anyone has adventured past their back garden but the Breakthrough Resilience partnership has gone above and beyond to keep us moving through these troubling times. The partnership has been regularly meeting online, through our new best friend Zoom. Where would we be without it? During December,…

Resilience is not a genetic trait that passes from mother or father, nor something that sooner or later everyone will acquire. People constantly face situations of stress and challenges, and strategies may or may not exist to overcome those issues. Everyone faces it despite the age group. When facing difficulties, young people may be more…

I have had a number of struggles even from the beginning of my life. I was born in a small town where everybody knew each other and people were culturally overconservative without knowing the reason behind it. I didn’t think having a lot of acquaintances could make my life difficult. Back then I was a...

``A good half of the art of living is resilience``.  – Alain de bottom Do you Bend or Break? The ability where one become strong, healthy, or successful again after something bad happens – Resilience. Resilience goes a long way in empowering individuals and communities as it builds strong equality, inclusion and diversity phase in...

Resilience is the ability to recover, cope, bounce back or spring back quickly from difficulties, toughness, or crisis or even to go back to “normal” (Oxford Dictionary, 2021). Is there really any such thing as normal? Life is constantly changing giving obstacles, challenges, and crises of some sort or the other. Thus, why we need...

Resilience is more and more relevant nowadays as our todays´ challenges face us to many uncertainties. The ongoing pandemic reminds us how it is important to be adaptable. That is why resilience can play a great role in the process of change. Indeed, to be resilient is the capacity for individual to recover quickly from…

Authored by Paola Campassi (Pro Natura Torino), Translated by Maria Giulia Rosini The Covid 19 pandemic cannot be considered only a painful digression in our existence and in that of the world. It forced us to reflect on the need to change our lifestyle and socio-economic system that the West World built to the detriment…

The covid19 pandemic caught everyone by surprise. There was no time to prepare for it very much, or at all. After restrictions were put into place, there was little space to be outside or even leave the house altogether. Life changed dramatically almost overnight. Now that some restrictions have been lifted, things are still strange,…

“We won’t return to normality because normality was the problem” During the lockdown I bumped into the aforementioned sentence. This statement got me thinking about the meaning that is often attributed to the concept of normality. Does a universal concept for indicating “normality” really exist? Since I was a child, my mum taught me that…