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Resilience

Resilience is a decentralized, cooperative, steady-state that breaks away from the paradigm of limitless economic growth. It requires that we adopt a lifestyle that is more respectful of all life around us.

The ways of a Resilient Community

Self-Reliance – The community builds and nurtures the capability to fulfil the 9 basic needs without having to depend on anyone external to the community.
The community commits to respecting, preserving and nurturing the soil, water and the air in the process of building this self-reliance.
Interdependence – There’s a commitment to learn and practice the ways of mutuality and coexistence, synergistically leveraging each other’s strengths, experience and wisdom. It is only when the individual members establish and respect the traditions of interdependence, that the community as a whole can enjoy independence.
Interdependence leads to a resource-efficient system, that gifts each member an abundance of time.
The community provides an environment that inspires all members to invest the abundant time in whatever expresses them best!

Principles

Highest respect Earth’s ecological systems and processes that sustain life.
Adopt patterns of production and consumption that safeguard the Earth’s regenerative capacities.
Design interventions that incentivise the nurturing of the natural ecosystems.

Scaling-in is about Learning and practicing the ways of Resilience and thereby being the change
Staying steady is about consolidating the learning and creating pathways for sharing
Scaling-out refers to the replication in different locations. It’s like co-creating millions of drops that collectively form an ocean rather than trying to scale- up one drop into an ocean.

To optimize efficiencies through leverage, and to prevent reinvention

All the knowledge we may have the privilege to get access to is due to the generosity of many. We express gratitude by sharing it with the many openly. Let an individual’s progress be measured by her/his contribution to the collective.

Objectives

To be a fully functional prototype village demonstrating a Resilient community life
To design and implement a replicable entrepreneurial model for the villagers to organise their respective villages for Resilience
To co-create a rural education system that empowers rural learners with the knowledge that makes them locally relevant and globally responsible citizens
To design and initiate a fellowship programme through which teams of fellows from various parts of the country collaboratively replicate Protovillage in their respective districts