The Resilience Canopy

Become a Resilience Canopy Practitioner and support your community to deepen connections and to become better prepared for whatever the future brings.

Learn skills to engage and empower your community to help it adapt and thrive.

Our Six-Step Future Ready Communities Model, underpinned by the Resilient Communities Framework, provides the tools you need.

This four-session, deep-dive capacity-building program is designed for anyone looking to enhance their skills in supporting communities on their journey toward a more resilient future.

What will you get out of training?

The skills to activate your community

Learn how to use the Resilient Communities Framework and our Six Step Future Ready Communities Model to get the best outcomes for your unique community.

Ongoing support and a nation-wide community of practice

All practitioners who complete the training will receive full membership to the ‘Canopy Collective’ - a wide ranging network of practitioners to share knowledge, support and connect with while you’re community progresses on its resilience journey.

Expert knowledge, useful resources

You'll receive training from highly experienced community resilience and disaster recovery specialists, as well as access to a toolkit containing all the tips, templates and tools you need for success.

Why should you train?

Hear from our trainers and participants on the value of training.

Watch the video and find out

Who can train?

Everyone!

This is ideal for people who are committed to using the training to walk alongside a community. From the very experienced to complete novice, you’ll gain the valuable capabilities of community resilience building from this training.

Motivated individuals and self-identified community leaders
Community strengthening practitioners
Volunteer groups
Local Government agencies
State and Federal authorities
Non-profit organisations
Corporates and all kinds of businesses

Change starts here.

The training equips you with the essential skills, knowledge, and tools to help communities assess their resilience challenges and how to identify priorities for strengthening against sudden disruptions and societal stresses.

As a Resilience Canopy Practitioner, you’ll apply what you have learnt with communities.

And you don’t have to do it alone. We’re here to support you through the Canopy Collective our community of practice which comprises the many practitioners who have attended training and a network of experts. That’s how together, we’ll grow Australia's resilience movement.

We've run training sessions all over Australia.

So far, more than 300 people have become Resilience Canopy Practitioners, many of whom are using their newfound skills and knowledge to engage and empower their communities.

Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. One person recently wrote:

"Thank you all for an awesome training. It was one of the best I have done. The practical nature of the course was great for my learning style. The trainers and participants were all lovely and have great hearts, and working in this field is so important. I enjoyed the transition and dynamics between two facilitators. I'm already using the tools that I have learnt for my upcoming projects, to rethink how to develop and start them. I also loved the visuals for mapping out activities."