The “resilience domains” are based on the literature about some of the different factors in people’s lives known to promote resilience:

A secure base – the attachment domain, who is in your life
Learning – education and development
Friendships
Talents and interests – opportunities to take part in things you enjoy, often associated with self esteem

Positive values – linked to the benefits of being able to do something for others (based on Berner’s study on ‘required helpfulness’, the benefits of expecting and encouraging children to be kind and help others)

Social competence – being able to get on in society, the interpersonal skills to get what you need in order to be relatively autonomous.

We can see that resilience is intrinsically linked with community. Without a sense of belonging to a community a secure base, friendships and the ability to explore learning and personal interests is compromised. Yet social competence, a key factor in personal resilience, is a building block of belonging to a community.
In Comas we have found in all our projects that building resilience in individuals works hand in hand with developing community connections.