Roadmap to Resilience - Part 1 - The World Around Us

Our intent in this five part series is to demystify the idea of resilience, to ground it in the philosophy of preparedness and to provide the operationalization of research. Everything that follows is based upon defendable data sources, evidence to support a recommended pathway, to ensure that you receive only what we “know” to be helpful. A caveat first - science is imperfect. It received a bloody nose during the pandemic, rightfully so. Science is the expression of knowledge as we understand it today, based upon the research - results of experimentation, leveraging our best mathematical models to provide reasonable certainty. Science is never settled, those who make such statements are not scientists, but advocates. What we understand about the physical world (natural sciences) and the human species (social sciences) remains changing, as it should, as we test new hypothesis, challenging paradigmatic norms. 

This series is our recipe to seize control of your life, to insulate your family / business against the effects of events you cannot control and to the greatest extent possible, reach your goals. No system is foolproof, nor can they plan for all contingencies. We’ve examined thirty years of data, conducted our own research to create this roadmap. We are imperfect as well, but we believe providing you non-apocalyptic evidence-based preparedness education, in the form of a roadmap to resilience, is a noble cause. We will provide these five steps in this format, with an accompanied audio episode on our podcast, Inside My Canoehead, as well as a visual representation on our YouTube channel. 

This is our company’s, Preparedness Labs Incorporated, offering to the world, free of charge. We simply ask you to share and invest your time and effort. No money is required on the road to resilience, there are no economic barriers to preparedness, they are simply creations of the state.

Our goal for this roadmap is that you’ll learn to navigate shocks that cause the loss of access to one or more sectors of CI, within your own resources. Disasters are dealt with through step 3 - your trifecta of preparedness plans. Until then, we concentrate on you accepting this as the frame for society, that emergencies occur when you need to navigate loss of access to CI, and that this will look different for every human, family, community and neighbourhood. There is no one size fits all, your circumstances are sufficiently unique that within a small group of individuals, the needs will vary greatly, as will the mitigation strategies.

Framing resilience as a personal skill, a capability born from understanding the world around us, how it function and fails, as well as they public systems designed to assist, sets the condition for step two, responsibility for the world around us.