Recovery foundations
Support long-term recovery from disaster and improve outcomes for disaster-affected communities.
Build your knowledge of the recovery process: Build an understanding of the lived-experience and common challenges that community face through recovery.
Prepare for what's ahead: Unpack what these common recovery challenges will mean for your work supporting communities.
Communicating in recovery: Understand the cognitive science behind ‘disaster brain’ and the implications for communicating with communities.
Please get in touch to discuss the needs of your organization or team.
Meet your facilitator
Jolie Wills
B.SC., M.SC(PSYCHOLOGY)
Jolie has a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and is a leading psychosocial expert in disaster and disruption. Jolie has studied how the mind works under prolonged pressure, how we make decisions and how our reactions and behaviors are impacted by stress. Jolie is a survivor of the Christchurch earthquakes and has lived disaster recovery with her family first-hand. She led the psychosocial recovery program for New Zealand Red Cross in response to the earthquakes and has supported those working in disasters around the world. Jolie is a Winston Churchill fellowship recipient, a Leadership New Zealand alumna, an Edmund Hillary Fellow, a co-author of Leading in Disaster Recovery: A Companion through the Chaos and is an advising member to the global Counter Terrorism Prevention Network.
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