Recently 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:...
Read MoreAre You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, as...
Read MoreThis mobile sofa might be the next best place to sit on and chat with others in your community, and two of our Associates...
Read MoreIn 1957, The Hidden Persuaders was published. It quickly gained national attention and launched Vance Packard's (the author) career. The Hidden Persuaders lays bare the...
Read MoreThe Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
Read More[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jerome G. Miller, A Bone Fide Radical[/caption] In last week’s post I shared some thoughts on the habits of non-credentialed connectors....
Read MoreThe following post explores the challenges that Commissioners and folk who Procure goods and services for various Public Sector organisations are likely to encounter...
Read MoreIf you work with communities it is hard to get through a single day without multiple mentions of the term resilience. It is of...
Read MoreNowhere is the need for resilient communities more apparent than in the face of natural disasters, and heat waves, more so than hurricanes, floods...
Read MoreEvidence on the impact of a total place approach to promoting more inclusion is thin on the ground. It is therefore rare that one...
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