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June 10, 2014
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One of the things that I have come to enjoy and appreciate most about ABCD is that it is not simply a methodology or...
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Wittgenstein once said that the world is the totality of facts, not of things. But I think the world is the totality of stories,...
Read MoreBeyond Co-production – Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
On Wednesday, May 21st, David Boyle published an engaging piece in the Guardian Professional. His opening lines read as follows: “When William Beveridge released his...
Read MoreThe rise, fall and rise again of community (ABCD webinar series)
What links Sigmund Freud - the father of Psychoanalysis, Edward Bernays - the father Public Relations and John McKnight - the father of Asset...
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This blog reflects on the dangers of becoming trapped in the single story. This is a ubiquitous risk. From getting trapped in our personal...
Read MoreA place to thrive
The following article appears in today's (8 Apr 2014) Drink and Drugs News Magazine. Download the magazine as a PDF here. Like recovery, addiction is...
Read MoreAllopathy, recovery and rehabilitation
As a historian cum anthropologist cum criminologist, it will come as little surprise that I am drawn to historical perspectives of the development of...
Read MorePower from the People. Power to the People.
This is the third and final blog within the short series: Connectors, Conductors and Circuit breakers. You can read the first instalment here and the second,...
Read MoreDoes social change always need a great leader or innovator?
This is the second in the three part series of blogs: Connectors, Conductors and Circuit breakers. You can read the first instalment here. All too...
Read MoreABCD: Connectors, Conductors & Circuit Breakers
This is the first of 3 blogs in which Cormac will be exploring issues of citizenship, power and democracy and what these mean to...
Read MoreThe Canary in the Coalmine: personalisation, deinstitutionalisation & communitalisation
The following is a piece of imaginative writing, with no recourse to the historical facts. But I would ask the reader not to let...
Read MoreAre we all addicted?
You’ve probably heard people state that addiction is blind to status, fortune, and situation. It’s often said when talking about drug or alcohol addiction...
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