Launch of Nurture Development’s new offer: Going Deeper, Growing Impact
January 30, 2017
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On behalf of the Nurture team, I'm really excited to share our new offer with you. We hope you like it, but more importantly...
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Sharing our Theory of (Practice Based) Change
This blog aims to build upon last week’s three part series entitled 13 Staging Posts of Learning and Development. We’d like to lift out...
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Our 13 Staging Posts in Learning and Development – part 3
To conclude this three part series (Part 1 and Part 2), we will be offering the final 4 staging posts in Learning and Development....
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Our 13 staging posts in Learning and Development – Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of 3 exploring Nurture Development's learning over the past 21 years. We describe these 13 pillars in Learning and Development...
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Our 13 staging posts in Learning and Development – part 1
With this first blog of 2017, we are feeling feistier and more determined than ever to contribute to the discovery and enlargement of free...
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Kirklees Democracy Commission invited me to give evidence on what happens when local democracy works as it should. We explored a range of issues...
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In understanding the democratic deficit, we need to spend less time trying to understand the outcome of elections and more time understanding why so...
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Choosing quality problems together
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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