Our 13 staging posts in Learning and Development – part 1
January 12, 2017
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With this first blog of 2017, we are feeling feistier and more determined than ever to contribute to the discovery and enlargement of free...
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The Welfare State is an extension of us, not a replacement for us.
This blog makes six key points: 1. The Welfare State is an important extension of our human community’s capacity to care; not a replacement for it....
Read MoreThe politics of community & local democracy
Kirklees Democracy Commission invited me to give evidence on what happens when local democracy works as it should. We explored a range of issues...
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The Democratic Deficit
In understanding the democratic deficit, we need to spend less time trying to understand the outcome of elections and more time understanding why so...
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Choosing quality problems together
Communities that choose quality problems together, stay together, or at least build the power to choose either way. In personal and public life, our problems...
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The Paradox of the Marketplace
The paradox of the marketplace is that even when we are not wanted as producers, we're needed as consumers. It promotes forms of production and...
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Leading by stepping back, while still caring
Great leaders, mostly lead by serving while walking backwards, cheering as they go. Because they understand: "It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility...
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Communities and the State: a question of proportionality
First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...
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Neoliberalism with a Community Face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland?
The paper ‘Neoliberalism with a community face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland (MacLeod, MA & Emejulu, A) 2014, is one...
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Expert by experience, or experienced beyond expertise?
Imagine a context in which it makes sense to call a horse an unwheeled automobile. Where to gain respect for the natural things in...
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It’s not about reforming systems; it’s about reclaiming the Commons.
After we've figured out our institutional systems, we may discover there are limits to what institutions can do for us in our pursuit of...
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Taking a Strengths-based Approach to Young People: Moving from ‘at risk’ to ‘at promise’. Part 1
When I read British tabloids their messaging around young people is unmistakable, young people: CAUSE PROBLEMS. HAVE PROBLEMS. ARE PROBLEMS. This is not peculiar to...
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