Resilience Resilience and and

CreativityCreativityProf. dr. Joachim DuyndamProf. dr. Joachim Duyndam

Main question:

What can Resilience Mean in the Perspective of Ageing

and Spirituality?

Resilience

• Is the ability, when faced with adversity or when under pressure, to uphold dignified autonomy (or in narrative terms: ‘autography’) in thought and action, to realise a meaningful and humane life for oneself and for others

Resilience

• Is the ability, when faced with adversity or when under pressure, to uphold dignified autonomy (or in narrative terms: ‘autography’) in thought and action, to realise a meaningful and humane life for oneself and for others

• Resilience is a responding quality

Resilience

• Is the ability, when faced with adversity or when under pressure, to uphold dignified autonomy (or in narrative terms: ‘autography’) in thought and action, to realise a meaningful and humane life for oneself and for others

• Resilience is a responding quality• Autonomy is relative, a relational

autonomy

Two Sources

Two Approaches

1. The humanization approach2. The meaning approach

humanization

Emancipation discourse / debate (1960s-1980s)

Empowerment discourse / debate (1990s – first decade 21st century)

Resilience (recently – 21st century)

Social Ecology

Resilience Research Centre (Canada a.o.)

meaning of life Humanistic tradition, e.g. In the Netherlands Jaap van Praag (1911-1981)

Meaning, Spirituality

Creativity: to shed another (new, unexpected) light to what is usual, common, customary

Meaning, Spirituality

Creativity: shed another (new, unexpected) light to what is usual, common, customary

Metaphor

Meaning, Spirituality

Creativity: shed another (new, unexpected) light to what is usual, common, customary

Metaphor Values

Meaning, Spirituality

Creativity: shed another (new, unexpected) light to what is usual, common, customary

Metaphor Values Exemplary figures (exemplars)

Resilience Resilience and and

CreativityCreativityProf. dr. Joachim DuyndamProf. dr. Joachim Duyndam