On April 15th 2016, Cormac was a speaker at TEDxExeter. It was great to be able to use this important social and civic platform...
Read MoreIn Middlesbrough we are working with our friends, Martyn and Dot, at Hope North East. We facilitated a workshop with workers and volunteers in the summer and will be...
Read MoreBeing ready to use your organisational resources to build community, instead of institutional prowess, client numbers, or revenue, involves making visible, through action, at...
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 More[caption id="attachment_1199" align="alignright" width="338"] Image taken from http://on.fb.me/1EZwH1c[/caption] On Sunday night last, May 31, 2015 at 10:45 Judith Snow passed away, she was a friend,...
Read MoreA community can never own that which was created for them, in the same way that they own that which they create for themselves....
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 MoreThis week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...
Read MoreThe Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....
Read MoreNowhere is the need for resilient communities more apparent than in the face of natural disasters, and heat waves, more so than hurricanes, floods...
Read MoreEvidence on the impact of a total place approach to promoting more inclusion is thin on the ground. It is therefore rare that one...
Read MoreThis blog reflects on the dangers of becoming trapped in the single story. This is a ubiquitous risk. From getting trapped in our personal...
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