Fourteen everyday leaders in a community share their everyday calamities and the lessons they learnt on how to cope with them.  Each story is told through their eyes.  Their experience; with reflective analysis drawing out the generic lessons for us all.

"The Chinese symbol, or pictograph, for the word crisis is a composite of two other pictographs: the symbol for “danger” and the symbol for “opportunity”. For thousands of years, the Chinese have known that a crisis can be a dangerous time but also an opportunity.
Human beings are by nature creative and the continuing speed by which our world is changing about us, and the increasing likelihood that we will experience our own “calamity”, demands that we, as leaders, find a way to tap into our own resources.

Using this set of resources, we’ll find a way to do this through reflection, self-awareness, decisiveness of action and a consideration for the future."

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 Coping With Calamities Overview

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