Community is a complex term in itself, often overused. The concept is layered with social, spatial and emotional dimensions. Adding to it, “resilience”, it is another challenge to define. Community and resilience are both rich terms employed in many fields. “We all agree more or less on a definition of community, at the end of the day it is just a word, but we can agree that community is not for example a fruit!”. It was a playful, frustrating moment when we discussed the definition of the words, on the second day of the workshop on community resilience by the URLab Barcelona. In reality and a more scholarly approach, community is a complex, multiscale term, often used with a positive connotation. From the article shared with us by Mulligan,2016. We could define a community as a social formation multilayered and dynamic, sharing similar characteristics (whether place-based or virtual, identities,…etc) creating a network and relationships, a sense of belonging shaped by contexts and common goals. But then, where does the resilience fit? And how can we address its temporal, geographic, and transformative dimensions without getting lost in abstraction? Group discussion. Photo: Marti Colomer Morera Organized by the URLab Barcelona, this event is the second of a series of international writing workshops connected to the topics “Barriers and Enablers to Effective Climate Governance in Cities”, which are raised by the issue of the Frontiers in Sustainable Cities journal. A first event happened at the end of October addressing the barriers and enablers to carbon neutrality. This February, the goal was to critically analyze the reasons for governance frameworks’ difficulties in supporting community resilience in the context of climate resilience. We spent three full days immersed in the dynamics between communities in all their forms and their relationship with climate resilience. The focus was on the barriers and enablers to effective climate governance in cities. I listened to different lectures from diverse professionals in the field and participated in the site visit of the Sant Antoni superblocks. Here in this reflective essay, I aim to summarize the key notes of the workshop. This event was a great closure for our module on community resilience. After spending the last weeks on site visits around Barcelona and even out of the city in Olot. We immersed ourselves in different community-led initiatives such as the cooperatives of Barcelona (La Bobilla, Sostre Civic, etc) centered around the