The Change Spectrum
August 24, 2016
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I’ve had the privilege of seeing a lot of professional practitioners wrestle with the dilemmas that Asset-Based Community Development presents; serving while walking backwards...
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A Game of Chance: finding our Ginga
Medicine is the preeminent example of using science to interfere with chance and with just cause, at least some of the time. Two of my...
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Why Asset-Based Community Development is not a Model
Asset-Based Community Development is not a model, it is a description of how people join together - at hyper local level - to use...
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The Best Nest for Asset Based Community Driven Efforts (ABCDE)
Society is often spoken of as if it has only two important dimensions; namely, individuals on the one hand and formal institutions on the...
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Launch of ABCD in England, June 30th 2016
For those that could only be with us in spirit (and Twitter) on June 30th 2016 for the launch of ABCD in England, we...
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A Quick History of the evolution of Civic Power
Once we were free, feral and tribal. We traded among our tribes using gift exchange and bartered with enemies and strangers. Then Pharaohs and their...
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Should the term ‘Community Leader’ go into Room 101?
John McKnight has a passion for jazz. Once a year he becomes a roadie for one week and travels on a bus with an...
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ABCD; It is not about overt positivity
Have you ever watched room 101? The premise of the show is to invite a panel member to offer their frustrations, with a view...
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Should the term asset map be put into room 101?
Have you ever watched room 101? The premise of the show is to invite a panel member to offer their frustrations, with a view...
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The Job of a Citizen
There are no experts on questions of judgement. Matters of judgement are civic challenges that cannot be unilaterally resolved in millimetres or economic units....
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Becoming connoisseurs of community invention
[caption id="attachment_3376" align="alignright" width="280"] ©Alamy[/caption] A connoisseur is a person who knows a lot about a particular subject. They are thought of as expert judges...
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Universal Citizen Income: The Way Forward
This blog is a reposting of Cormac Russell's contribution to Axiom News on February 11th 2016. You can see the original article here. Curator’s Note: The...
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