Choosing quality problems together
November 24, 2016
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Communities that choose quality problems together, stay together, or at least build the power to choose either way. In personal and public life, our problems...
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The Paradox of the Marketplace
The paradox of the marketplace is that even when we are not wanted as producers, we're needed as consumers. It promotes forms of production and...
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The difference between a hole and a well
At a workshop recently, someone challenged the idea that you can't build anything useful from the top down, except for a hole, a ditch...
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Leading by stepping back, while still caring
Great leaders, mostly lead by serving while walking backwards, cheering as they go. Because they understand: "It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility...
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Can I help you?
What does it mean to help another human being, or an entire community? It’s a question we ask a lot at Nurture Development. There...
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Communities and the State: a question of proportionality
First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...
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Neoliberalism with a Community Face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland?
The paper ‘Neoliberalism with a community face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland (MacLeod, MA & Emejulu, A) 2014, is one...
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Expert by experience, or experienced beyond expertise?
Imagine a context in which it makes sense to call a horse an unwheeled automobile. Where to gain respect for the natural things in...
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It’s not about reforming systems; it’s about reclaiming the Commons.
After we've figured out our institutional systems, we may discover there are limits to what institutions can do for us in our pursuit of...
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Taking a Strengths Based Approach with Young People. Part 2: Building Walls or Building Bridges
In the second part of this series of two blogs, we want to get practical. We’d like to speak about what bridge building into...
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Taking a Strengths-based Approach to Young People: Moving from ‘at risk’ to ‘at promise’. Part 1
When I read British tabloids their messaging around young people is unmistakable, young people: CAUSE PROBLEMS. HAVE PROBLEMS. ARE PROBLEMS. This is not peculiar to...
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The Change Spectrum
I’ve had the privilege of seeing a lot of professional practitioners wrestle with the dilemmas that Asset-Based Community Development presents; serving while walking backwards...
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