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3rd Right every Wrong Conclave
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Scottie
will share the story of how he made his
dream to be part of a model yacht club, and
to operate his own boat independently, come
true, despite the many challenges he faced
as a person with a disability. For 5 years
Scottie was a passive observer of a local
model yacht club, until one day, when a bit
of bad luck changed his life for the better.
Scottie will talk about the challenges he
faced, which ranged from money, to people
miss-judging his abilities. Scottie will
also talk about how his being part of the
club has changed the perceptions of his
fellow club members.
The
'Love Thy Neighbor' resilience demonstrated
by Mumbaiites, at least on three occasions-
the dreaded bomb explosions in Mumbai trains
-2006; that claimed 188 lives, the
devastating floods- 2007 when Mumbai halted
for 6 days and the 26/11 terror attacks in
the year 2008 that shook humanity globally,
plots many questions- Is resilience an
expression of mutual generosity, remarkable
heroism in adversity and crisis? Is
resilience historically a public resource of
solace? In a world that links Mumbai,
Kashmir, Karachi, Madrid, Peshawar, London,
Wall Street and Washington it does not
appear to be a source of comfort & solace.
Resilience is a public resource. But, unlike
terror, it may not be indefinitely
renewable. Proverbial resilience of
Mumbaiites finds an echo in the otherwise
nondescript narrow alleys and on the
resonating bathing Ghats of Varanasi- the
religious capital of India. Perennial faith
of Varanasi mendicants extends beyond
theorizing and speculations. These
resplendent spiritually inclined ochre clad
mendicants have set their hearts unerringly
on a different destination i.e.
Self-Realisation. They subsist on alms, lead
minimalist lifestyle, and appear
psychologically better dispositioned to
undertake self purifying acts. The present
paper looks at commonalities, concerns and
the perspectives with which both offer
solace and hope building.
“Greatness
lies, not in being strong, but in the right
use of strength” Henry Ward Beecher.
Jane
Sleeman has been the
Co-Founder of Hollyhox Positive
Resources, with Megan Booth. It
is with great sadness that we
must inform you that Jane
Sleeman passed away on the 30th
of April, 2010. 
The
International Labor Organization estimates
that around 218 million children between the
ages of 5-17 were engaged in work-related
activities in the year 2004. A variety of
factors influence a child's need to work, as
such there is no panacea to the problem. In
working towards a response to the issue,
this paper argues that strategies which
harness resources already in place with
minimal help from external parties are
sustainable in the long run, especially for
non-profit organizations which are often
short of resources. 
This
workshop will explore what Neuroscience
offers our thinking about supporting
individuals in personal 'capacity building'.
Participants will have the opportunity to
consider new research and its implications
for the way in which we understand how
people think and react during times of
change and stress. The implications for
management practices and how workers are
supported through challenging times will be
considered, whilst utilising traditional
Strength Based practice tools. 
South
Africa is an extremely violent society with
violent crime having reached pandemic
proportions (Bruce, 2006). Although there is
an established relationship between violence
and trauma (Bowman, 2007), secondary trauma
is often not factored into our
understandings of this relationship. This
research aimed to explore how social workers
experience and cope with secondary trauma.
The research project was conducted in two
phases; the first phase was in the form of a
quantitative research design while the
second stage was qualitative in nature. In
the first phase seven standardized tools
were distributed to 140 social workers who
work with trauma victims. Included in these
tools were tests to measure resilience and
coping strategies. In the second stage, 20
social workers were interviewed to explore
the effects of trauma, resilience, coping
strategies, use of supervision and personal
therapy. Qualitative interviews were
analysed through thematic content analysis.
A theoretical model of trauma and coping was
derived from an analysis of the findings.
Natural
disasters are common recurrences in
Australia and elsewhere in the world, with
developing countries suffering in recent
years from major disasters such as
earthquakes, floods and tsunamis and severe
storms. These natural disasters during the
recent past highlight what is likely to be
the norm over the next several decades, with
climate change and its consequences a stark
reality. Those weather-related events of
particular relevance to community
preparedness and adaptation initiatives in
Northern Australia are cyclones and floods.
While substantial disaster mitigation
infrastructure, including the services of
multiple agencies and professionals in times
of need, exists, there remains much to be
done to more fully understand and achieve
disaster preparedness and resilience in
individuals and communities for recurrent
natural disasters. Previous research in
North Queensland has provided promising
findings with respect to the use of
psychological preparedness interventions in
fostering community preparedness. The aim of
this paper is to present an overview of
psychological preparedness for disaster and
review the initial results of the first
stage of the development and validation of a
new scale i.e., the Psychological
Preparedness for Disaster Threat Scale (PPDTS)
There
is little communication between the
environmental management and social science
bodies of literature on resilience, yet each
offers insights that could enrich the other.
Our research with in far north Queensland
has identified six key social and
institutional characteristics as helping the
region and its communities to be resilient:
peopleplace connections, knowledge, skills
and learning; community networks; engaged
governance; a diverse and innovative
economy; and community infrastructure. We
propose that environmental management,
Aboriginal and social development
organisations with regional responsibilities
can choose to incorporate the social
dimensions of resilience thinking in three
ways. Their first option is to pursue
existing mandates in consciousness of social
characteristics, without trying to intervene
although social knowledge may prompt some
adaptation of existing management
strategies. For instance, understanding
local variations in people-place connections
may influence communication strategies. A
second option is to take advantage of
resilience characteristics in management
strategies, for instance to invoke strong
people-place connections and recruit and
support existing community networks towards
stewardship behaviour. The third is to
pursue organisational mandates in a new way
that enhances social resilience
simultaneously, for instance explicitly
building a more diverse and innovative
economy through new employment and business
structures in environmental management. 
Can
resilience contribute to factors that
transform isolated individuals into a
powerful integrated group, combine their
forces, and defend their common interests?
This paper examines the displacement of the
inhabitants of Jaguaribara, (Northeast of
Brazil) and their resettlement due to
construction of the dam “Castanhao”. While a
new city was planned by the Government to
shelter the inhabitants from “Old
Jaguaribara” that was overflow by the dam,
the case yields consequences that arising
out with the resettlement of the community,
elucidating besides the impoverishment risks
the protective factors that came up during
the process of resistance against the
construction of the dam, in the light of the
concept of Resilience. In order to capture
the various dimensions of this process,
qualitative primary data were used as the
main source: documentation made by NGO's and
professionals involved during the process of
resistance against the construction of the
dam as well as semi-structured interviews.
Therefore the case of resilience enhancement
in Jaguaribara elucidates a community that
perceives an adversity situation in a
different way, combining forces they could
enhance their capabilities and overcome the
hardships, catalyze collective gains as well
as articulate and defend common interests.