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Touchstone Four: Engaging Local Groups and Associations

February 9, 2018
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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

February 2, 2018
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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

January 26, 2018
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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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I Wish You Enough

Touchstone One: Introducing connectors to each other and forming a Community Building team

January 19, 2018
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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

January 17, 2018
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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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8 Touchstones of Community Building

Eight Touchstones of Community Building. Part 1: Community is not a noun, it’s a verb

January 12, 2018
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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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Ice And Light

A Christmas Wish

December 18, 2017
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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)

December 15, 2017
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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

December 8, 2017
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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

December 1, 2017
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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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No Experts in Matters of Judgement – Part 3 of 5

November 24, 2017
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We go about our daily lives, unknowingly benefiting from the efforts of an army of experts, that we the public never meet, yet whose...

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The Shift from Expert to Collaborator – Part 2 of 5

November 16, 2017
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This is part two in a five-part series on the relationship between: Personal knowledge Public judgements Expert knowledge   This week we shall overview the Expert...

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