The six phases of the CCC resilience pathway are described briefly below - and additional insights on this approach, view this video introduction to the two wave, six phase resilience pathway.
The Six Phases of the CCC Resilience Pathway
1. Growing Personal Resilience and Capacity
The first stage of the CCC Pathway focuses on cultivating the coaches’ personal resilience and developing their capacity to navigate the complexity of a changing world over an extended period, including in challenging situations. This includes gaining an understanding of the context and causes of the current ecological, climate and socio-political situation, and how we can build and maintain our own resilience in order to be able to respond from a place of empowerment over the longer term, and reducing the risk of burn out.
2. Building Collective Capacity in Community Engagement
The second phase focuses on how we relate to and work with others as teams. It aims to build a team or community of practice for holding and sustaining the process of extended community engagement, goal identification and implementation of action, and to develop our facilitation competencies as a tea, so that we are better able support communities in generating meaningful change on an ongoing basis. The general assumption is that communities need a team with a range of skills to support this kind of work, so generally acting as a Community Climate Coach on your own is unrealistic, although we will help you find your team if you don't already have that.
3. Connecting with Community, Place and Nature
Phase 3 involves community climate coaches working with local stakeholders to facilitate a deeper connection with nature, the places, and communities they live in and work with. By using observation exercises, dialogue walks, and facilitated activities, coaches foster stronger relationships and appreciation within the community and with living systems, to recognise ‘what is strong, not just what is wrong’. The activities of this phase are ongoing, and help to build resilience and stronger relationships in the CCC team, local community organisations and across social networks.
4. Mapping Strengths & Envisioning Community-Led Initiatives
In phase 4 climate coaches work with the community to identify local strengths and vulnerabilities through participatory asset mapping processes. These activities capture stories of the place and foster an understanding of the new community-led initiatives that can respond to the needs and potential of the place. In particular, this phase strengthens a community’s sense of their own potential and their rights to generate and direct transformative change at the local level to actively respond to their current and future needs.
5. Hosting Dialogue & Nourishing Community-Led Initiatives
In phase 5 the Community Climate Coach hosts conversations across different local groups and networks to co-create a shared vision for resilience and a just transition. This involves using tools such as scenario planning, visioning exercises, and inclusive facilitation techniques to engage diverse stakeholders and support the emergence of new regenerative systems aligned with community values. This phase starts the process of identifying what goals are relevant for the future, in order to link them to actions, resources, skills and attitudes that are needed in the present. In this phase it is often expected that this work with align with or feed into local Council activities on Climate Action Plans.
6. Deepening Impact & Amplifying Transformative Innovation
The final phase of the CCC Resilience Pathway, creates spaces for learning and reflection, peer support and celebration. By focusing on deepening and extending positive impacts, community climate coaches aim to increase participation and scale up successful community-led initiatives to reduce negative lifestyle and community impacts, and to strengthen positive actions that will continue to personal, collective and landscape resilience over time. This phase completes the CCC Resilience Pathway processes, and also ignites the ongoing long term process of implementing, growing and expanding the climate, biodiversity and community resilience actions that the whole process has identified.