Staying Present When Things Fall Apart – Resilience as Coherence Across Individuals, Relationships, and Systems
April 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Adrian Wagner
Dr. Michael P. Schlaile
Kosha Joubert
April 20
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (Europe/Berlin)
English
In a world of increasing instability, how do we remain grounded, connected, and able to act? How do we build the capacity to move through disruption without losing ourselves or each other?
This conversation marks the launch of the policy brief on Resilience and Trauma: a systematic review and analysis of 53 studies on resilience in contexts of collective trauma. The findings challenge familiar assumptions: that resilience means returning to normal, that it is an individual capacity, or that it can be built through technical solutions alone.
What emerges instead is a more complex and collective picture: resilience as the capacity to maintain coherence and continuity of identity while undergoing transformation. It develops not in isolation, but through the interaction of individual capacities, relationships, cultural meaning, and structural conditions.
In this event, we will explore:
Understanding Disruption: How complex systems actually move through crisis, and what this means for how we work with individuals, communities, and institutions.
Presence as Foundation: Why the capacity to remain present with difficulty — rather than avoid it — is central to resilience at every level.
Relational and Systemic Practice: How leaders, practitioners, and communities can cultivate the conditions for coherence, trust, and shared meaning in times of stress.
Adrian Wagner works at the intersection of applied complexity and emotional attunement, holding space for both individual and collective blind spots with care and discernment. He is a researcher with The Pocket Project and collaborates with The Cynefin Company (formerly Cognitive Edge) as a consultant.
Over the past 15 years, he has worked as a teacher, researcher, coach, and transformational facilitator with institutions including the European School of Governance, the German Foreign Ministry, the European Commission, and the University of Witten/Herdecke. He co-published the research report Trauma and Democracy, exploring approaches to integrating collective trauma.
His work focuses on developing new pathways for collective growth and resilience by integrating complexity, compassion, and transformative leadership.
Dr. Michael P. Schlaile currently leads the CULEST (“The Cultural Evolution of Sustainability Transitions”) research project at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany. Here, he is mainly interested in how cultural evolutionary processes can support or hinder the transformation towards more sustainable and resilient systems. More generally, his work revolves around the interconnected research areas of complexity & evolution, innovation & transformation, and sustainability & responsibility. For more information, please visit: https://www.michael-schlaile.de/en/
Kosha Joubert is the CEO of the Pocket Project, where she works closely with Thomas Huebl and a global team to grow a culture of trauma-informed care. Kosha is an expert facilitator, coach and organisational development facilitator who has worked on systems regeneration, trauma-informed leadership and post-traumatic growth in more than 48 countries. Kosha has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents.
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