The goal of Kokoro for Resilient Communities is to empower communities to collaborate effectively in addressing important challenges to their resilience. A second goal is to cultivate wise and ethical leaders, community organizers, educators, and innovators.
Kokoro for Resilient Communities focuses on:
- Public Health, Risk, and Safety
- Social, Human, and Environmental Rights
- Resilient Industrial Infrastructure
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Public Services and Accessibility
- Human Security and Equity
- Regenerative Sustainability
Kokoro begins by inviting you and your team members to pose your most pressing questions (Ask Kokoro™), or you can select any of the provided Essential Questions; then helps you to identify the core challenges that weaken community resilience and factors that fortify resilience. Next Kokoro enables you to enlist the advice of leading experts on your key challenges.
Once you have begun your journey, Kokoro provides a program of Wisdom and Resilience Skills and Practices that generate a Compounding Multiplier Effect, for each new community skill reinforces and builds upon another. Finally, Kokoro enables you to chart detailed strategies and roadmaps for practical actions, supported by other mentors whose insights you deem useful.
The program provides a suite of tools and metrics to apply and master core community competencies and track and measure your community’s Return on Investment (ROI) and Social Return on Investment (SROI) in its important initiatives. This innovation can be helpful to communities because wisdom and resilience are generally treated as qualitative, essentially non-economic virtues.
Invitation to join BBILAN’s Collaborative Innovation Initiative.
The National Collaborative Initiative introduces core discovery, invention, and innovation skills and tools, including Kokoro for Resilient Communities and the Resilient Community Leadership course that members can practically apply to generate breakthrough innovations in national and community resilience. Your community’s developing expertise and practical experience in applying Kokoro can make an important contribution to the development of a National Resilience Strategy at an inflection point of high national vulnerability and opportunity.