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Things are Hotting Up: the fallacy of Loneliness Surveys

August 27, 2014
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Nowhere is the need for resilient communities more apparent than in the face of natural disasters, and heat waves, more so than hurricanes, floods...

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Fantasy Island: Is disability just a construct?

August 14, 2014
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Evidence 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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Paradise lost: Cargo Cults and Austerity

August 7, 2014
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"Imagine that you are a New Guinea man and you've lived all your life in what is virtually the stone-age. You've never seen metal...

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Finding community as a modern urban nomad

July 18, 2014
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My ‘settled’ family t’up north frequently refer to me as a nomad. They’re exasperated at the number of pages I take up in their...

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Community Building and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

June 30, 2014
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I'm afraid at any given time I flit from one book to another and between several from one week to the next, and typically...

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Shared Journeys & Shared Gifts

June 27, 2014
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[caption id="attachment_386" align="alignright" width="300"] Some of the fellow travellers[/caption] We’re all on a journey of some description and on Monday and Tuesday this week, mine...

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Saints and Sinners

June 13, 2014
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'A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.' Saint Thomas Aquinas 'A person has free choice to the extent that she...

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Our daily legacy

June 10, 2014
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One of the things that I have come to enjoy and appreciate most about ABCD is that it is not simply a methodology or...

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Evaluating Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) efforts

June 5, 2014
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Wittgenstein once said that the world is the totality of facts, not of things. But I think the world is the totality of stories,...

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Beyond Co-production – Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)

May 23, 2014
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On Wednesday, May 21st, David Boyle published an engaging piece in the Guardian Professional. His opening lines read as follows: “When William Beveridge released his...

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The rise, fall and rise again of community (ABCD webinar series)

May 12, 2014
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What links Sigmund Freud - the father of Psychoanalysis, Edward Bernays - the father Public Relations and John McKnight - the father of Asset...

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When we reject the single story we regain a kind of paradise: Why Jubilant Stories matter!

April 28, 2014
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This blog reflects on the dangers of becoming trapped in the single story. This is a ubiquitous risk. From getting trapped in our personal...

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