End Loneliness? Build Community!
If 'how to end loneliness?' is your question, community building is the answer. [caption id="attachment_3291" align="aligncenter" width="364"] Artist: Graham Ogilvie. Used with the kind permission...
Read MoreIf 'how to end loneliness?' is your question, community building is the answer. [caption id="attachment_3291" align="aligncenter" width="364"] Artist: Graham Ogilvie. Used with the kind permission...
Read MoreOver the last twenty years, across the world, I've come across four distinct ways of thinking about building community in difficult times. Naturally enough,...
Read MoreShift #1 Health is a political issue. If we are to see global health improvement, then we need to shift the conversation from ‘medical problems’...
Read MoreUltimately, Doctor Guillotin wanted to radically reform the penal code by having the death penalty abolished. Yet, today he is remembered for helping to...
Read MoreThe following is a guest blog written by Al Etmanski (aletmanski.com). Al is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. John McKnight is his...
Read More[caption id="attachment_3527" align="alignright" width="219"] Image from the film 'Get Low' (2009)[/caption] In this morning's national newspaper The Irish Times the front page headline reads: "Economic activity...
Read MoreBonding and Bridging atoms Currently, populist theories of social and economic change in the Global North, suggest that crises’ in the domains of democracy, health,...
Read More‘Growing an Association of Associations’ You received gifts from me; they were accepted. But you don’t understand how to think about the dead. The smell of winter...
Read More'We used to dream big, now we have a district commissioner who does that for us.' Last week I finished with the question: What happens...
Read MoreIn this series of four blogs I’d like to think about active citizenship and democracy. In this regard, I will not be writing about: How...
Read MoreDear friends, Between June 15th-19th more than 180 people gathered from 21 countries around the world to celebrate local citizen-led action, and the last 20...
Read MoreDear Friends, As many of you will be aware, in 1995 John McKnight and Jody Kretzmann convened an extended circle of friends to help them...
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