Our 13 staging posts in Learning and Development – Part 2
January 13, 2017
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Welcome to Part 2 of 3 exploring Nurture Development's learning over the past 21 years. We describe these 13 pillars in Learning and Development...
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As 2016 draws to a close….
As a team at Nurture Development, we have the privilege of learning alongside 1000’s of citizens, practitioners and leaders every year. As 2016 draws...
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[caption id="attachment_3283" align="alignleft" width="262"] Audre Lorde ©Dagmar Schultz[/caption] "Without community, there can be no liberation". Audre Lorde. The root causes of the vast majority of socio-economic...
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