Being ready to use your organisational resources to build community, instead of institutional prowess, client numbers, or revenue, involves making visible, through action, at...
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 MoreAbout this time last year I was in Evanston with John McKnight. One of the things we did while I was there was play...
Read MoreAre You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, as...
Read More[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jerome G. Miller, A Bone Fide Radical[/caption] In last week’s post I shared some thoughts on the habits of non-credentialed connectors....
Read MoreWittgenstein once said that the world is the totality of facts, not of things. But I think the world is the totality of stories,...
Read MoreOn 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 following is a piece of imaginative writing, with no recourse to the historical facts. But I would ask the reader not to let...
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 MoreAlong the way of human history, quite recently in fact, we've forgotten the extent to which our own personal, family and community capacities stretch,...
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