The EcoResilience Workshop is a regenovation (regenerative innovation) of the Śramani Institute that teaches organizational leaders how to reframe programmatic strategies around the new concept of EcoResilience, so that organizations can effect long-term solutions to complex local-global ecosocial challenges, instead of merely temporarily mitigating them.
Workshops
Currently, the Śramani Institute is offering EcoResilience Workshops.
OVERVIEW
WHAT IS AN ECOSOCIAL CHALLENGE?
An ecosocial challenge is any issue that negatively impacts the economic, ecological, and/ or social wellbeing of groups (e.g., communities) of humans and the ecologies they inhabit. Ecosocial challenges include:
- poverty and/ or unemployment
- food insecurity, water scarcity, and/ or energy insecurity
- climate crisis (pollution, waste generation/ processing, biodiversity loss, and/ or environmental degradation)
- ill-health, hunger/ malnutrition, and/or healthcare insecurity
- discrimination, inequity, and/ or violence
- disenfranchisement and/ or restricted autonomy of decision-making
AUDIENCE: WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS WORKSHOP?
If you are a leader in an organization that works to address one or more ecosocial challenges, you will benefit from the new skills taught in the EcoResilience Workshop. Such organizations include:
- nonprofit (civil society or community-led) organizations
- funders of nonprofit organizations (e.g., CSR entities and foundations)
- thinktanks and/ or policy-making entities
- universities and/ or research organizations
- multilateral organizations and/ or government entities
- for-profit companies
EXPECTED OUTCOME
The EcoResilience Workshop will enable you to begin engaging in integrated analytical systems thinking — i.e., taking into account an array of different variables, understanding their interconnectivities, and designing integrated systems and plans — to innovatively solve complex problems with sustained long-term impact.
PARTICIPATORY METHOD
Through novel participatory and first principles-based pedagogical methods, the EcoResilience Workshop takes participants through a step-by-step unlearning-relearning process. While new concepts are introduced through short lectures, skills development occurs in small groups. For optimal effectiveness, the Workshop:
- is geared toward a total of 30-50 participants
- has breakout working groups of 5-7 participants each
- is conducted in-person in 5 modules over 1 day or multiple days (with no online option)
FIRST PRINCIPLES-BASED PEDAGOGY
Rather than promoting any particular ideology or framework, the EcoResilience Workshop utilizes first principles-based pedagogy, a regenovation of the Śramani Institute. This novel method of learning is the reason leaders of a wide variety of organizations benefit from the skills taught, regardless of which type(s) of ecosocial challenges their organizations work to address. First principles are those that can be discerned and/or deduced from observation, forming the basis of participants learning to make connections and innovate solutions on their own.
WHY THE ECORESILIENCE WORKSHOP IS A PARADIGM SHIFT
The EcoResilience Workshop is a paradigm shift in complex problem-solving because it helps participants develop new skills enabling them to effectively solve ecosocial challenges by eliminating their root causes.
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