This blog was originally posted on the You're Welcome, a new ten-year plan set up by Barnwood Trust. It’s all about creating more welcoming and inclusive communities...
Read MoreWritten by Les Billingham, Head of Adult Services at Thurrock Council. Thurrock is one of Nurture Development's Learning Sites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I remember being a fourteen year...
Read MoreWritten by Jim Diers, Associate of Nurture Development, Faculty Member for the ABCD Institute and author of 'Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Building...
Read MoreHistory says, don’t hope… But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of Justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme (The Cure at Troy, 1991) Seamus...
Read MoreIn last year's May edition of the New Internationalist, Dinyar Godrej’s article A healthy mind in a healthy society reminds us that good mental...
Read MoreThere are two main ways to speak truth, one is through stories; the other is through studies. But because people don’t care about what...
Read MoreThis past weekend, I watched the film ‘Get Low’ – it was recommended to me by Cormac following a conversation about Community Builders (can...
Read MoreWe welcome yesterday’s launch of NHS England’s Guidance for Participation and Inclusion which begins to lay a foundation for transformational change. The central challenge for...
Read MoreRecently over coffee, a mental health professional from one of the communities I am mentoring said: "I so wish I could do community building...
Read MoreAfter genetic determinants, our well-being is decisively more determined by our community assets than any other health and well-being determinants. Tragically community building hardly...
Read MoreI train and mentor Community Builders. They go out and find Connectors. Connectors ask people what they care about. People get themselves organised and...
Read MoreAs a youngster growing up in rural Ireland, when we weren’t playing cards or getting up to mischief - at the best of times...
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