{"id":106091,"date":"2020-08-31T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=106091"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T22:08:14","slug":"cultivating-resilience-evolve-industries-from-the-crisis-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/31\/cultivating-resilience-evolve-industries-from-the-crisis-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating Resilience & Evolve Industries From the Crisis of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Country weather the storm of Covid-19, for individuals, businesses, routines of lives; by developing resilience muscle is the tool to improve reality, make lives meaningful, and improvised. <\/em><\/strong>–\u00a0Research On Resilience<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our country is\nchanging in many ways towards progress. It is happening everywhere for better.\nThe country was in a crisis situation in two ways and still not yet over. First\nof all we haven\u2019t had the safety as well as political stability. Ranil\nWickramasinghe had introduced mockery to our constitution to stay in power in\nhis position. The result was complete anarchy which was prevailed during the\ntime of Yahapalanaya\u201d regime. He has allowed drug business to thrive as a business\nin this country. Because of those unsafe, ground realities and constitutional\nmockery; the big picture of the country was quite unstable & we were fast\nmoving to a failed state in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the\npresent government has taken timely decisions to fight with the reality and\nlong way to go to achieve objectives. Government leadership and vision has been\nthe driving factor for change and it is the trust of people. Like every country\nwe are in a crisis time with less ability to complete eradication of Covid -19.\nSo this is a profound time for businesses and individuals to develop positively\nadapt to disturbances that threaten its functioning, viability &\ndevelopment. In other words we need to develop the Resilience\u201d muscle as\nindividuals and organizations. It is time to grow through our ability in many\nfronts and we need to understand and dynamic, which explains in resilience. One\nschool of thought of resilience is the ability to go on with life or continue\nliving a purposeful life after hardship or adversity. Resilience makes positive\noutcomes during adversity possible. The most important thing to consider what\nhave we learn over the past 4 years during the Yahapalanaya time. People build\nup uncertainty on daily basis which builds anxiety in the hearts and minds of\nthe people. As a result of a power hungry government and a rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People went to work\nwith uncertainty. They were not sure the bus or train will be there for them\nget to work. Farmers were not sure they might be able to procure fertilizers\nfor the farming. They were not sure they could sell their harvest to a better\nprice. Parents were in fear of sending their children to schools due to drug\nabuse environment of the community. Police was not maintaining law and order of\nthe country. As a result Pascu Sunday attach killed more than 250 people and\ndisabled many lives in the country. There was massive corruption scandals every\nwhere in the country. In rural areas of the country; people were positive in\ntheir daily lives and mitigated among their communities how to live safely in\nan uncertain time. The contagion part of that resilience was remarkably\npositive. People were helping each other and, inspiring each other and leading\neach other to overcome hardships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all know the\nworld is in a crisis situation due to pandemic. The economic activities are not\nfunctioning as it was. Economic theories need to rewrite again by taking a\ndifferent perspective of self sufficiency of a country. As a country we weather\nthe storm and will be much prepared to face the challenges & disturbances\nwhich will experiencing during the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this time\nimproving the resilience muscle and \nentrepreneurship is the way to change the identity of the way we doing\nthings and live. People have made many changes to the ways they do their\nbusinesses. Virtual sessions, online purchasing etc. As everybody aware tourism\nindustry hit hard and continue due to Covid-19. The entrepreneurial thinking\nhas changed the way they do their businesses. Hotel Lavanga\u201d at Seenigama in\nsouthern Sri Lanka has open their hotel for locals. They reduced the prices and\nmade changes to their food menus & done positive changes to attract local\nbusinesses. I think the hotel owner was more resilient in the face of challenge\nand had come out with better solutions. So the resilient people always find\nopportunity in the face of challenge and come out with more characteristics to\ntheir business and find ways, they do their businesses. <\/strong>There are 3\ndistinct characteristics of resilient people they are; a\/ Accept the reality,\nb\/Believe that life is meaningful, c\/Ability to improvise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another way of\nbuilding ourselves on resourcing from resilience in front of challenges. What\nhappen in resilience; the process in which an individual or system positively\nadapts to disturbances that threaten its functioning, viability or development.\nSo there are key two things happen in resilience the disturbance and a positive\naction. There are key things to build capacity over time. The first is dynamic.\nThink about Ajith Perera in Sri Lanka. He is the dynamic Potter in Sri Lanka\ntrying to mobilize the industry to a position in the world. Resilience is not a\ntrait. Which means it is not a characteristic or quality. It is something a\nperson can built over time. Which could be developed. Most important is how a\nperson could develop resilience muscle over a disturbance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three\nways could boost resilience. 1. Risk focused strategies; which means reduce or\nprevent risk. We need our decisions to be more greater viable places from all\nperspectives of operations, but reality is it is quite difficult. The second 2.\nResource focused strategies; which means increase resources or access to\nresources. The third one is one which will help to build anyone\u2019s resources or\nutilize the resources. Practice and promote the resources in the environment.\n3. Process- focused resources; Practice and promote adaptability\/agility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When think of\nresources what are them; which are resources of resilient functioning for\npeople; In the big picture of research there some individual attributes,\nrelational attributes, social attributes that people are doing quite well. Some\nof the protective factors demonstrate are 1. higher problem solving skills,\nself regulations skills, Motivation, self efficacy (belief themselves, they\nthink they can do hard things), Internal locus control(Person will have the\ninfluence to know over what happening to you), psychological tendencies towards\nfaith, hope, optimism. High quality social relationships, well functioning\norganizations and communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think about the the\nnew state ministries portfolios and the functioning expectations to achieve\ngoals of sufficiency. Those functions parameters and resources use has been\nwell documented and relied on to build the rural economy from a diverse\nperspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three ways of\nincreasing more resilience by improving thinking process focused strategies of\nnormalize the struggle and embrace the ambivalence in all of our moments. Think\nof what is happening to us now, and what we are going through the pandemic. By\nobserving the positive and negative incidents we be able to find a path for\ngrowth.  Identify the ways we can\nre-narrate things; take control of your story. We cannot control the\nenvironment. Think about the life when this time pass of Covid-19. As the hotel\nindustry going through a pause for its momentum. The Lavanga\u201d made changes to\nits target customer focus and did introduced changes to menus, slashed down\nprices, and made it more family oriented resort for locals. What a wonderful\nthinking of resilience. The last aspect is Investing in your relationships even\nwhen it is hard to do so. It is quite hard when living in a pandemic. Most of\nthe time people perspective they do act defensively, undermine relationships,\nit is actually time to investing our relationships being more compassionate on\nco workers, friends & more to help us become more resilient ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well having\nnoticing change in many ways people doing things one of the key need to\nimprovise as individuals is pride certainly. Person like Ajith Perera, and\nHotel lavanga owner has shown their resilience to lift others up for better by\nbelieving themselves, engaging and achieving. From the perspective building our\nlives of people which matters during the pandemic. One of the foremost common\nto rest of the world and our country we are all together in this time of\npandemic. It doesn\u2019t matter person live in Canada, U.S.A, England, France, or\nIndia. All experience the same intensity of the pandemic. People & groups\nconnecting through virtual platforms to share things with them to feel better\nthemselves. Grand parents are involving with the children to help out speaking\nand schooling time with them. All these activities strength our bonds with each\nother. One of the key aspect of compassionate to other is something need to\nbuild each other during the time, it is because nobody knows what is going on\nwith other person at this moment of time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilience through\nchallenges grows in the country as the government encourage our own industries\nto grow and  prosper. The key\nintervention of Ajith Perera and his clay industry to establish the brand\ninitiative through Sri Lankan image has enormous contagion entrepreneurial\nspirit. He is mobilizing the concept among youngsters; it is contagion &\ngrowing. There is hidden inspirational potential to explore, put into crafting\nthe image. I am certain he is doing it in the coming years inspiring with the\nothers. The most important advantage for his initiative of entrepreneurial thinking\nof establishing brand is blessed by the present government. The government will\nencourage & will support of improving the clay industry and exporting\nproducts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New normal under\nthe circumstances is different by now. Personally myself, I am going through a\ntough time, but as a person I realized the the reality, and always want to\nthink life has to be spent meaningfully. And trying to improve as an individual\nand through my commitment to my children. My own story is a see myself more\nresilient way and my engagement has been inspirational to certain people which\nis resilient to me as well as for others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunil Yatalamatta Gamage Country weather the storm of Covid-19, for individuals, businesses, routines of lives; by developing resilience muscle is the tool to improve reality, make lives meaningful, and improvised. –\u00a0Research On Resilience Our country is changing in many ways towards progress. It is happening everywhere for better. The country was in a crisis situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}