The Intent

The intention of the Resiliency Education Action Group is to foster a local culture of generous, engaged and caring citizens, with the know-how and skills needed to do what is best for our people and this place, now and seven-generations into the future.

The health and wellbeing of our local communities, big and small, comes down ultimately to the health and wellbeing of our personal relationships. As the mycelum grows, so grows the forest. Microcosm, macrocosm. A community’s resilience — its ability to adapt to changing times, temperatures and tempers — depends utterly on the quality of the working relationships of its people. People who know how to listen, to empathize, who can both understand and collaborate with others, who know how to step up, take care of each other and their shared corner of our planet. An ecosystem, in the fullest sense of the word, where eco equals home, and system equals a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Our local Salish Sea communities are blessed in this regard. Here on the Peninsula, many of our nested towns, villages and tribes still live at a scale that encourages real-time, working feedback loops — people talking to people — where information that needs to get around goes around. And where direct-citizen democracy still functions on a first-name basis. Communities where people care for each other and for the place they live.

Activities

Present Activities

In December of 2017, the Resiliency Education AG was formed with the two-phase goal of:

(1) Supporting our local ‘ecosystem’ of Action Groups, community organizations, and grassroots-initiatives with on-going access to relevant experiential-learning opportunities, skills-based workshops and conferences, plus inspirational events, films, study groups, and townhall meetings.

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(2) Laying the groundwork for launching The Sound Institute for Community Resilience, a ‘sister non-profit’ to Local 20/20, focused on offering educational programing, workshops, conferences, and inter-generational mentorships County-wide, with the ongoing goal of fostering long-term community health, wellbeing and sustainability.

We envision the Sound Institute as a community resource, a school for sustainability, and a networking hub. In addition to skill-based trainings and experiential-Ed workshops, the intention is to link our region with sister organizations and other human-scale communities, both here and abroad, such as TransitionUS, the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), Northwest Earth Institute, Berkana Institute, Findhorn Foundation, Biomimicry Institute, Bioneers, InContext, and beyond….

The Sound Institute Curriculum Council: a volunteer circle of local ‘thought leaders’—will meet in early February to brainstorm and select future programming, trainings, conferences, and guest speakers for the coming year.

Activities

Past Activities

For over a decade, Local 20/20 has been a leader in our community for sustainability awareness and education. Past programs, workshops, and educational events include:

• Annual All County Emergency-Preparedness Picnic
• Tina Clarke’s Transition Town trainings
• US premier screening of the TOMORROW film in Chimacum, Earth Day 2017
• Recent co-sponsored ‘Economics of Happiness’ conference at Fort Worden
• Cultivating Empathy, personal-skills seminars series, Port Townsend 2018
• Menu for the Future study groups, in collaboration with Northwest Earth Institute
• Salmon Festival, around the Sound 2018

Contact Information

If you are interested in Resiliency Education programing, or wish further information regarding workshops, courses and on-going events and gatherings: e-mail marlow@L2020.org