Touchstone Five: Building Connections and Social Interactions
February 16, 2018
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This week we’ll be looking at touchstone five: building connections and social interactions....
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Touchstone Four: Engaging Local Groups and Associations
The transformative relational power that would be generated if we learnt how to build an association of associations in every neighbourhood, could be our...
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Touchstone Three: Appreciating the assets of the local community
In this third blog of the Eight Touchstones of Community Building series, Chris shares the story of how a local authority shifted from delivery...
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Touchstone Two: Recruiting a Community Animator
The strength of a community or the various groups that make it up, should not be measured by the capacity of individual leaders but...
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Touchstone One: Introducing connectors to each other and forming a Community Building team
The work of building community belongs to those who reside there, it is the work of near neighbours; not salaried strangers :- this means...
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Building the community – connecting community practitioners
In December 2015 Nick Gardham (Community Organisers Ltd) and Cormac Russell (Nurture Development UK) set out in a three-part blog (see links below) series...
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Eight Touchstones of Community Building. Part 1: Community is not a noun, it’s a verb
Here comes another blog series; get ready for nine in a row this time. From next week on, each week I will share some...
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The Social Innovators Code (10 principles)
Trevor Baylis and Manu Prakash are two social innovators I consider as having a lot to teach us about offering help from the outside...
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The Good Life Conversation
The Good Life Conversation works within Asset-Based Community Development practise as questions that help steer towards more life enhancing conversations....
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A Question for Community Wellbeing
"I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are "sickening," rather than that people themselves are sick. The symptoms...
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You measure best when you treasure first
Over the last six months I've been using an app on my phone, which counts the steps I take each day, like millions of...
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Celebrating the impact of ABCD Guides in England
Over the last few months, we have trained over 45 ABCD Guides in Leeds, Bristol and Kirklees. This blog will share our thoughts on...
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