The Eighth Storyline: losing the plot; finding community.
There are those that say there are 7 basic plots or seven basic stories, apparently they are Orpheus, Achilles, Cinderella, Tristan and Isolde, Circe,...
Read MoreThere are those that say there are 7 basic plots or seven basic stories, apparently they are Orpheus, Achilles, Cinderella, Tristan and Isolde, Circe,...
Read MoreThe following is a guest blog written by Jon Dawes. Jon is a graduate student in Community Development at Glasgow University and a participant in...
Read MoreAbout this time last year I was in Evanston with John McKnight. One of the things we did while I was there was play...
Read MoreBy Cormac Russell, John McKnight and Peter Block What does a one-room schoolhouse in Michigan have to do with Greece, Europe, Democracy and the now...
Read More[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...
Read More[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for...
Read MoreRecently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...
Read MoreThis week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...
Read MoreIn Ireland at this time of year, we ask each other: 'how did you get 'over' the Christmas?' To which the standard refrain is:...
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