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Introduction

If we remember that Everyday Social Resilience is a process, disposition and orientation then, this chapter will provide skills, models and methods to enable its practice.

For a start, it is critical to move away from models and language that is dominated by brain-centrism, ‘hazards’ and mental fitness. One needs to then move towards an embodied and somatic understanding of persons, Socialitie and the Everyday.

This moving away and going towards Everyday Social Resilience takes time, considerable skill development and practice. In SPoR, we call this un-learning and learning. This involves a perception of what is currently being undertaken in safety as ineffective in tackling the wickedly of risk, learning and resilience. Without this motivation it is not likely that much will move. The promises of ‘re-wiring the brain’, ‘bounce back’ and ‘fixes’ are simply safety myth.

In many ways Everyday Social Resilience is hard work. It takes much work to become a Skilled helper (Egan).

So, we commence this chapter by introducing the Everyday Social Resilience ‘wave’. This semiotic operates as a map, similar to all SPoR Semiotic methods and models (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/spor-and-semiotics/).

The Resilience Wave

The idea of a life-line wave comes from Graham Long who uses it to explain the ups and downs and the every-day, especially on his presentations on the work of Martin Buber (https://vimeo.com/user/57711103/folder/16924457 ). We have expanded on this metaphor and semiotic to help explain Everyday Social Resilience.

We start with a simple wave much like a wave viewed on an oscilloscope. Like all models and semiotics, there are strengths and weaknesses in the model but it is useful, according to purpose. In this case, the oscilloscope makes the invisible (wave) visible. This helps in SPoR because it captures the nature of the unconscious and so we know, there is much going on that in what we can’t see or hear. We know things are there, they just have to be made audible, visible and brought to the surface. This is how iCue Engagement works.

Similarly, in everyone’s lives and being there is much going on that is unconscious and it takes considerable skill to help ‘surface’ what is significant and enable the ‘other’ to move on to what has been made visible, audible and transparent to them. In this way control shifts from the power of the agent of safety to the empowerment of the one in suffering.

Other semiotic meaning in the wave metaphor also include: the nature of turbulence in a similar way to the Culture Cloud. On any stretch of water there are always are ebbs, flows, peaks, ripples, and swells as the water rises and falls, this is how life and being is experienced.

You can see the Everyday Social Resilience Wave at Figure 52. Everyday Social Resilience Wave

Figure 52. Everyday Social Resilience Wave

In the Everyday Social Resilience Wave we see a semiotic that explains the nature of life through the metaphor of ‘ups’ and ‘downs’. In Linguistics we know that up and down metaphors are commonly used to equate to being well or unwell, to being elated or depressed. We also use the metaphor of being ‘high’ or ‘low’ in a similar way. In this instance we all know that most days are not like the extremes but our average day is an every-day. We do the chores, make the bed, clean, eat, go to work, plan, set goals and not achieve some goals. Re make lists and don’t complete all on the list. We accept that as an every-day experience. I didn’t get to mow the grass today. I’ve procrastinated on a job to fix the car seat covers, that’s how it goes.

We represent this average day on the semiotic with a dotted line we call ‘sustainability’. These are the energies and drives of Homeostasis and Allostasis that help us keep to this line.  If we have a moment of elation, epiphany or euphoria, we know that won’t last long. We will soon be back to the chores, the shopping, washing and cleaning.

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