LogoLogoLogoLogoLogo
Search
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Who We Are
    • Meet The Team
    • About ABCD
    • ABCD Institute
  • What We Do
    • What We Offer
      • Learning & Development
      • Consultancy Services
      • Research & Evaluation
    • Who We Work With
    • Where We Work
      • Learning Sites
    • Proof Of Impact
      • Reports
      • What People Say
    • ABCD Community
      • Publications
      • ABCD Videos
    • Nurture Development
      • Glossary
      • Publications
      • Videos
      • Webinars
  • Blog
    • News and Events
    • ABCD Thought Leadership
    • Community Building Practice
    • ABCD Video Presentations
  • Contact
  • Rekindling Democracy
  • Community Renewal Centre
  • Home
  • About Us

    • Who We Are
    • Meet The Team
    • About ABCD
    • ABCD Institute
  • What We Do

    • What We Offer
      • Learning & Development
      • Consultancy Services
      • Research & Evaluation
    • Who We Work With
    • Where We Work
      • Learning Sites
    • Proof Of Impact

      • Reports
      • What People Say
    • ABCD Community

      • Publications
      • ABCD Videos
    • Nurture Development

      • Glossary
      • Publications
      • Videos
      • Webinars
  • Blog
    • News and Events
    • ABCD Thought Leadership
    • Community Building Practice
    • ABCD Video Presentations
  • Contact
  • Rekindling Democracy
  • Community Renewal Centre
 
Nurture Development /  Blog

What is distinctive about an ABCD Process – Four Essential Elements.

October 19, 2018
0 Comments
Share

Today we would like to share the results of John McKnight and Cormac Russell's deliberation about what is distinctive about an Asset-Based Community Development...

Read More

Beware of the Progressives Part 2: Intermediate Innovation

October 12, 2018
0 Comments
Share

Overreach: going beyond one’s personal or institutional capacity to a point where a person or organisation becomes counter-productive....

Read More

Beware of the Progressives (Part 1)

October 5, 2018
2 Comments
Share

The harsh reality is that some of the folk who appear socially progressive, are more interested in career progress than in authentic social change....

Read More

Surfacing our intentions

September 28, 2018
0 Comments
Share

We should surface our intentions about both the offering and accepting of help. If someone decides to step forward, it should be done with...

Read More

Questioning our certainties

September 21, 2018
1 Comment
Share

Socrates genius lay in his ability to question ‘certainties’, to probe into closely guarded beliefs that people assert as certainties, without good grounds...

Read More

Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 2 of 2

September 7, 2018
0 Comments
Share

Individually we can’t create society, as it is the sum of our interactions, intermeshed with knowledge and traditions from the past and concerns, hopes...

Read More

Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 1 of 2

August 31, 2018
0 Comments
Share

The real proving ground is community responsiveness to it’s needs. This forms the test against which ability to meet necessities breeds creativity, inventiveness and...

Read More

Ayrshire 3 year evaluation: most important finding is significant increase in mental health and wellbeing.

August 24, 2018
0 Comments
Share

In 2014, the NHS Endowment Fund provided funding for an Asset Based Community Development project in Ayrshire exploring how peoples’ assets and skills can be...

Read More

Universal Unconditional Basic Income (Part 2 of 2)

August 24, 2018
0 Comments
Share

Honest questions alongside open dialogue about the way in which we think about salaried and non-salaried contributions will open up space for more fruitful...

Read More

Universal Unconditional Basic Income (Part 1 of 2)

August 17, 2018
1 Comment
Share

When we start the conversation around contribution, and intentionally shift away from market language - including the word ‘value’ which is also an economic...

Read More

Beyond Good Intentions; Towards A Good Life

August 10, 2018
1 Comment
Share

Mostly with good intentions, institutions develop processes that degrade the human capacity, inventiveness and autonomy of the person/persons they serve....

Read More

Scarcity & remembering the obvious.

August 3, 2018
0 Comments
Share

The concept of ‘abundant communities’ is vital as it recognizes that the huge reservoir of individual, associational, cultural, economic and ecological capacities we have...

Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20
  • 21
  • 22
  • 23
  • 24
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • The Connected Community Two Day Retreat in Canada

  • Jonathan Massimi – Nurture Development Associate in Canada

Download our brochure

Learning , Development and Consultancy Offer 2017 – 18
GET IN TOUCH

Themes

  • ABCD Thought Leadership
  • ABCD Video Presentations
  • Community Building Practice
  • News and Events

Featured Writers

  • Cormac Russell
  • Shaun Burnett
  • John McKnight

Archives

Tags

7 Top Tips 8 Touchstones ABCD Practice Ageing Well Associations Building Community Civic Professional Community Animator Community Assets COVID-19 Democracy Funding Global Citizenship Health and Wellbeing Helping Organisations Helping Theory Heritage Life Long Learning Linebackers Local Economy Radical Inclusion Safety and Security Social justice Stewardship The Unknown Youth at Promise

Follow Us

LinkedIn
Twitter
Wordpress
YouTube

USEFUL LINKS

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Careers
  • Contact Us

Contact Office

+353 87 928 0998
91 Bird Avenue
Clonskeagh
Dublin 14
Ireland

Keep In Touch

Register for news and update e-mails.

  • Hidden
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Copyright 2018 © Nurture Development Ltd. Web Design by Illustrate.
This site uses illustrations created by the following artists: Graham Ogilvie / HSC Voices / Debbie Roberts / Tragic O’Hara from Model X Media
We would like to thank them for sharing those with us.