Touchstone Six: Visioning and Planning
February 23, 2018
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Once a strong connection is built with the community, it’s time to look to the future and envision what it could look like in...
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Touchstone Five: Building Connections and Social Interactions
This week we’ll be looking at touchstone five: building connections and social interactions....
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Touchstone Four: Engaging Local Groups and Associations
The transformative relational power that would be generated if we learnt how to build an association of associations in every neighbourhood, could be our...
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Touchstone Three: Appreciating the assets of the local community
In this third blog of the Eight Touchstones of Community Building series, Chris a member of the Nurture Development team shares the story of...
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Touchstone Two: Recruiting a Community Animator
The strength of a community or the various groups that make it up, should not be measured by the capacity of individual leaders but...
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Touchstone One: Introducing connectors to each other and forming a Community Building team
The work of building community belongs to those who reside there, it is the work of near neighbours; not salaried strangers :- this means...
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Building the community – connecting community practitioners
In December 2015 Nick Gardham (Community Organisers Ltd) and Cormac Russell (Nurture Development UK) set out in a three-part blog (see links below) series...
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Eight Touchstones of Community Building. Part 1: Community is not a noun, it’s a verb
Here comes another blog series; get ready for nine in a row this time. From next week on, each week I will share some...
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A Christmas Wish
My wish this Christmas is that we would recognize that we and our neighbours through our deep commitment to each other are the real...
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The Social Innovators Code (10 principles)
Trevor Baylis and Manu Prakash are two social innovators I consider as having a lot to teach us about offering help from the outside...
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Free, Prior, and Informed Consent – Part 5 of 5
The virtue of so doing lies in the untapped reservoir of potential that lies out ahead of us as human beings if we can...
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Personal Knowing: I know I need you and that you need me too – Part 4 of 5
Personal Knowing, that we are social and embodied is how we know and understand reality in relationship to others, and how we experience and...
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