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The Dangers of Cultivating Community -To Potter or Rewild; That is the Question (January 2024)

January 11, 2024
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Introduction In my previous article, I argued that the response-ability of the many is falling on the shoulders of the few, and indeed, a subset...

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The Response Ability of the Many (December 2023) 

December 6, 2023
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The Response Ability of the Many (December 2023) Many of the World’s most urgent crises now require more profound and broader collective community-centred responses. Societies...

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Jonathan Massimi – Nurture Development Associate in Canada

July 5, 2022
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Every year, I follow a “maintenance schedule” which includes a trip to the optometrist. Based on my current mileage, it was suggested that I...

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The Connected Community-Discovering the Health, Wealth & Power

January 21, 2022
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Togetherness in place; the positive alternative to separateness in a world, aimlessly hurtling through space. On January 11th, our Publisher, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, hosted John McKnight...

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Keeping Our Best Side Out

December 21, 2021
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Is keeping our best side out the same as keeping our sadness in?   I’m not a fan of pretending to be ok when I’m...

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Learning from the Strathcarron Hospice Experience

December 17, 2021
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I graduated as a nurse from The University of Edinburgh in 1983 and have worked in health care for almost 40 years. For 20...

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Commissioning and Service Transformation through the lens of ABCD

December 10, 2021
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  “Real, Practical, and strategic in the best sense of the word…The course has acted as a catalyst, becoming infectious, with people framing their work...

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Springfield, Beech Hill & Gidlow Community

December 3, 2021
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Angela Fell - It’s a pleasure to introduce Gill Wright, a community animator from Wigan. Gill and four other women bumped into each other...

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From The Invisible to the Visible: Coalville C.A.N.

November 26, 2021
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“There is no community in Coalville” was the jaw-dropping comment made to us by a senior Council officer as we discussed a project. “Can...

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Montrose Giving Tree

November 19, 2021
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“Share a time when you felt really proud to live in Montrose” Cormac Russell presented this invitation three years ago to a room of 40...

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Can Government be a Tool in the Hands of Active Citizens?

November 12, 2021
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I was honoured recently to be invited on to Shawn LeVick’s, Niagara Graffiti podcast, to dialogue with him and the Mayor of the City...

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“People die twice”

November 5, 2021
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We love delivering training courses here at Nurture Development, and what we have found leads to deeper and longer-term community centred change is to follow...

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