Thisness: Coming to our Senses (Part 1 of 3)
June 29, 2018
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Start with a focus on that which is external, beyond our own senses and our influence is to inadvertently render that which is proximate...
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How to Ask Better Community Questions: It’s as Easy as ABCD
Joel Zaslofsky engages Cormac Russell in a vibrant conversation exploring the ideas of ABCD, motivations and important aspects to understand....
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The Paradox of the Alongsider: Serving While Walking Backwards (Part 2)
The alongsider 'serves while walking backwards' they stand with the person they serve, by seeking the help of community insiders who know their community,...
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The Paradox of the Alongsider: Serving While Walking Backwards (Part 1)
Being an alongsider, the shift from being an outside agent to an alongside colleague means supporting those inside a community to support eachother....
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They Drank no Wine (My last prescription)
As practitioners if we figure out how to be good guests (alongsiders) in the lives of those we serve, it will show in our...
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Five questions on citizen life and how to support it
1. How to support communities in developing self-belief and finding sustainable solutions? 2. How can we encourage a culture which enables citizens to act upon...
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Empathy not Sympathy
Sympathy creates dependence between ‘the needy’ and the ‘needed’, at the expense of interdependence at the center of community life. Empathy invites people who...
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Free, Prior, and Informed Consent – Part 5 of 5
The virtue of so doing lies in the untapped reservoir of potential that lies out ahead of us as human beings if we can...
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Personal Knowing: I know I need you and that you need me too – Part 4 of 5
Personal Knowing, that we are social and embodied is how we know and understand reality in relationship to others, and how we experience and...
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No Experts in Matters of Judgement – Part 3 of 5
We go about our daily lives, unknowingly benefiting from the efforts of an army of experts, that we the public never meet, yet whose...
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The Shift from Expert to Collaborator – Part 2 of 5
This is part two in a five-part series on the relationship between: Personal knowledge Public judgements Expert knowledge This week we shall overview the Expert...
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Three Domains of Knowing
Part one of five exploring the three domains of knowing which looks at the basis of expert, collective and personal knowledge and the interactions...
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