Part 2: Community Building & Community Organising are an essential prelude to co-production & Community Engagement. In the last 10 years we have seen a...
Read MoreWhat would you discover if you could make visible all the invisible assets (the local things that make our communities special and powerful: people,...
Read MorePart 1: How Community Organising & Community Building can work together: the two-fisted fight New forms of collective action are emerging in the UK. With...
Read MoreManagement is about doing things right. Leadership is about doing the right things. Stewardship is about hosting a conversation and curating a climate within which everyone...
Read MoreFrom the General to the Particular Part 2 Last week I argued for a need to reverse the trend from the particular to the general....
Read MoreWe live in a world where many of our traditional leaders believe the direction of growth and development is from the particular to the...
Read MoreBeing ready to use your organisational resources to build community, instead of institutional prowess, client numbers, or revenue, involves making visible, through action, at...
Read More[caption id="attachment_3283" align="alignleft" width="262"] Audre Lorde ©Dagmar Schultz[/caption] "Without community, there can be no liberation". Audre Lorde. The root causes of the vast majority of socio-economic...
Read MoreI’ve often been asked ‘what’s the difference between Asset-Based Community Development and Appreciative Inquiry?’ Well needless to say there is a huge amount of overlap,...
Read MoreIf 'how to end loneliness?' is your question, community building is the answer. [caption id="attachment_3291" align="aligncenter" width="364"] Artist: Graham Ogilvie. Used with the kind permission...
Read MoreOver the last twenty years, across the world, I've come across four distinct ways of thinking about building community in difficult times. Naturally enough,...
Read MoreShift #1 Health is a political issue. If we are to see global health improvement, then we need to shift the conversation from ‘medical problems’...
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