[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...
Read MoreRecently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...
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 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 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 MoreThe following post explores the challenges that Commissioners and folk who Procure goods and services for various Public Sector organisations are likely to encounter...
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 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 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 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...
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