Thinking Differently About Funding
March 15, 2018
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How do you preserve community power and autonomy in the face of grants from organizations that have predefined the agenda before communities have even...
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A Christmas Wish
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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Free, Prior, and Informed Consent – Part 5 of 5
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
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
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
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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Three Domains of Knowing
Part one of five exploring the three domains of knowing which looks at the basis of expert, collective and personal knowledge and the interactions...
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What’s the Story? Post-Truth Politics and Vaccinations
" People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya...
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By the People.
There are four ways of serving people, they have their place, but the fourth currently receives least attention. ...
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Apathy is not the Problem
There is no such thing as an apathetic neighbour, only an inflexible community building effort, in need of a few more whistles, and a...
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Nurturing the Carrying Capacity of Communities
In structural engineering the concept of “carrying or bearing capacity” of soil refers to “a given mass of soil’s resilience and receptivity to infrastructure...
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Five Motivations to Act
When asking people good life questions, we are in pursuit of what motivates the person, to: take action, make a contribution, to show...
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