1. Jolie Wills
Winston Churchill Fellowship

2. 4 September 2010 – Mag 7.1

3. 22 February 2011– Mag 6.3
Christchurch City…. before

4. Christchurch city…. during

5. Aftershocks www.canterburyquakelive.co.nz 4 Sept 2010 - 7.1
22 Feb 2011 – 6.3 and 6.4
13 June 2011 – 6.4
23 Dec 2011 – 6.0

7. Secondary stressors
“The stress and anxiety caused by dealing with insurance, repairs, and the agencies involved in the recovery has resulted in a ‘double blow’ which for many has proven more debilitating than the earthquakes.”
Healthy Christchurch, survey of Canterbury residents 2012
in association with the All Right? campaign

8. A 60-hour week job with added difficulty and complexity
UN Peacekeeper as exhaustion causes niggles between colleagues at work
International interpreter responsible for communicating the post-disaster realities and needs to outside personnel or agencies
Off-road driving specialist – navigating over damaged terrain and ever-changing road closures to manage the school run
Teaching-assistant to support extra parental, development and learning concerns in relation to her children post disaster
Site foreman/project manager for home rebuild or repair work
Insurance specialist fluent in ‘legalese’
Packing and removal contractor – managing multiple house shifts during repair or rebuild processes of her own (or rented) home
Geologist – able to accurately identify, size, depth and direction of the epicentre of aftershocks as they occur
Counsellor to stressed, distressed and frustrated neighbours and friends
Parental P.A. – I.T. tasks, process navigation and paperwork to support older parents with their insurance claims, rebuild or repair processes.

9. Winston Churchill fellowship
Purposely wide range of people
Black Saturday, Victoria – 7 Feb 2009, 173 people lost their lives
Kobe – Great Hansin Earthquake – 17 Jan 1995 – 6434 lost their lives in the earthquake and resultant fire
Tohoku earthquake, 11 March 2011 – triple disaster, 8.9 EQ, claimed approximately lives, tsunami up to 40m, travelled up to 10km in land
Pic on Oshika Peninsular
Winston Churchill fellowship

10. The load is crucial. It is not just individual attribute of strength or of self-care (although important). Emphasis is often the latter without adequate consideration of the former and organisations’ roles in this.
Even people with a high level of confidence and capability cannot continue forever without support. Machiko Kamiyama – Yamagata University/Care Miyagi
Yes we talk about self-care, but where is the space for and accountability for social, community and organisational role and responsibility in this? Joe Samalin, Disaster Distress Hotline
What you end up with is this endless parade of tough people that burn out. It almost becomes part of the business plan - telling themselves it is all part of finding the right people who can endure. Dr James Guy – Headington Institute

13. The nature of recovery ‘the blur’ being ‘an outsider’ isolation
all-encompassing
unpredictability
being ‘an outsider’
slings and arrows of life
thankless/unrecognised
own recovery
isolation
relentlessness
links to the community
diminished resources
inability to meet the need
‘the blur’
exposure to distress
it could have been me
complexity
waning support
weight of expectations

14. Individual giving their all empathic nature guilt
new to self care
empathic nature
fear of getting it wrong
guilt
sense of responsibility
pressure to be strong

15. Organisational not feeling valued inaccessible management
reticence to fund personnel
team conflict
insincere support
fast, concrete, siloed
political pressures
/ the speed treadmill
not feeling valued
inappropriate programming
rigidity
the disconnect
‘the squeeze’
top-down approach
inequity
business as usual
lacking direction
short-term funding
inaccessible management
contracts / uncertainty

16. + principles of support supportingthesupporters.org
implementation tips
supportingthesupporters.org