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Stéphane Dandeneau - Cultural and Community Approaches to Resilience

Until recently, the concept of “resilience” was conceptualized and studied at an individual level. However, many of our “individual” characteristics and traits stem from social-ecological sources such as our community, our cultural beliefs and worldviews, and the context and times in which we currently live. Our constant interaction with our social-ecology greatly shapes who we are and how we think. To fully understand and appreciate the resilience process in which a person or a group is engaged, we must consider their past, current, and future social ecologies. This presentation will share different approaches to trying to understand the cultural and community sources of resilience. It will present methodological options for investigating social-ecological resilience. Finally, ways of sharing resilience through the different knowledge translation mediums used in the Stories of Resilience Project will be presented. Stéphane Dandeneau, PhD, is currently assistant professor of psychology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. After completing his PhD in social psychology at McGill University, Stéphane worked on the Roots of Resilience Project at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, during his postdoc. Stéphane has broad interests in social psychology, social-cultural psychology and the underlying social cognitive processes of social resilience. His first line of research investigates the links between self-esteem, social stress, and attentional processes involved in perpetuating psychological insecurities. His research examines ways of training people with low self-esteem “high self-esteem-like skills” such as inhibiting social rejection which is shown to buffer against social and performance threats (www.selfesteemgames.mcgill.ca and www.mindhabits.com). His research also investigates sources of resilience and definitions of resilience from an Aboriginal perspective using a community-based approach with the Roots of Resilience Project (www.mcgill.ca/resilience). The current hegemony of individualistic conceptualisations of resilience in today’s literature overshadows other, more eco-centric, conceptualisations. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the project aims to develop a more culturally-appropriate model of resilience as well as showcase the many different facets of Aboriginal people’s strengths.