{"id":63823,"date":"2022-10-16T07:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63823"},"modified":"2022-10-16T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:15:39","slug":"how-do-we-teach-the-critical-skills-needed-to-face-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63823","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2022\/09\/10\/how-do-we-teach-the-critical-skills-needed-to-face-collapse\/\">How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse?<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15575\" src=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/campbell-quote.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/campbell-quote.jpg 640w, https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/campbell-quote-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/campbell-quote-300x300.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/>So civilization, at least as we know it, is going to collapse \u2014 political, economic, social, educational, health, transportation, technological systems all will fail, a bit a first, and then more and more.<\/p>\n<p>We have no idea when it will be complete \u2014 could be in 10 years, or in 40. We have no idea how it will play out \u2014 how quickly, where first, what systems and governments will go first.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t even know how people will react to this Slow (and Permanent) Emergency. So how can we possibly prepare for it?<\/p>\n<p>I think the best answer to this is to teach a lot of people a lot of skills, hard and soft, that they don\u2019t currently have, so that we\u2019re kind of ready for anything. Here\u2019s a list of ten possibly critical soft skills, and ten possibly critical hard skills, that very few of us (in most countries) are competent at at the moment. The ones in italics are, IMO, those that it is important that\u00a0<em>most<\/em>\u00a0people learn; for the remainder, it\u2019s important that\u00a0<em>some<\/em>\u00a0people in each community be very competent at them:<\/p>\n<p>Soft Skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Critical thinking<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the ability to think for yourself, reason things through, be self-aware of how emotions play into each issue, and basically the capacity to study, research, analyze, problem-solve and learn without being spoon-fed.<\/li>\n<li>Group facilitation \u2014 the ability to help groups work and think collectively, achieve consensus, resolve conflicts, and manage themselves, notably by modelling exemplary facilitation skills themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Helping people cope \u2014 the ability to counsel others on dealing with and healing from loss, uncertainty, fear, grief, shame, anger, anxiety and other emotions that will inevitably arise and make people dysfunctional as the crises of collapse unfold.<\/li>\n<li><em>Preparing healthy food<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the ability to cook and otherwise prepare, blend, and complement foods \u201cfrom scratch\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse? So civilization, at least as we know it, is going to collapse \u2014 political, economic, social, educational, health, transportation, technological systems all will fail, a bit a first, and then more and more. We have no idea when it will be complete \u2014 could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150,33267,32260,32259,8718,13158],"class_list":["post-63823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-collapse","tag-critical-skills","tag-dave-pollard","tag-how-to-save-the-world","tag-knowledge","tag-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63824,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions\/63824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}