The Wood for the Trees
November 10, 2020
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If you live in a neighbourhood with some shrubs and a few trees, you would not say you live in a forest. A forest...
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Antifragility: The Tides of Change
Antifragility is a property of systems that increase in capability to thrive as a result of stressors, shocks, volatility, noise, mistakes, faults, attacks, or...
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My hopes for Community Renewal & Nurture Development
Working with Nurture Development over the last three and a half years I’ve had the pleasure and privilege to invite many hundreds of people...
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Angela Fell: My Story of finding ABCD
Hello all, I’m Angela and I’m so happy to be able to say hello to you as a Nurture Development associate. Cormac invited me...
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The Great Re-Connect: Launching The Community Renewal Centre
In recent weeks and months, COVID-19 has sounded eerie echoes of the 1918 and 1957 pandemics for those most oppressed and economically and socially...
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A (kind) revolution
They say, for most, it takes a lifetime to understand what one can do in a lifetime. For me, 30+ years of “working with Communities”...
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Netherton: Unity in CommUnity
This post was originally posted here by the L30 Community Centre (Netherton), and has been shared here to highlight an example of authentic community...
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York’s ABCD journey – People Helping People
Power is shifting in York and people are increasingly coming together to define what they want and build more connected, caring and compassionate neighbourhoods...
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Dancing in the streets: an Asset-Based Community Development-informed Local Authority Response to COVID-19
Local Councils the world over face an important choice: do we treat people simply as consumers of mandated services or (while providing quality services)...
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COVID-19: What is the Leadership Challenge
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Victor E. Frankl. This week we are offering...
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The Strathcarron Hospice Experience of Adopting an ABCD Approach in Responding to COVID-19
One of our favourite ways of working at Nurture Development, is to act as ‘alongsiders’ to professionals (and their organisations) seeking to deepen their...
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Taking the Road Less Travelled – COVID-19 Response & Renewal That Builds Communities From Inside Out
“Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different...
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