ABCD workshop with Church Urban Fund
11 November 2015 – ABCD workshop with Church Urban Fund.
What is the difference between a needs-based and a strengths-based approach to community development?
Which approach are we using in our church or our community?
How would our activities look different if we switched from one to the other?
A group of academics, church leaders and practitioners met together to discuss these questions. In doing so, they wanted to understand more about how can we can effectively tackle poverty and build strong, vibrant communities.
The day started with Cormac Russell, Managing Director of Nurture Development. He explored what a strengths-based approach would look like and spoke about how to grow movements for social change, using the example of La Leche League in America.
This information has been extracted from the Church Urban Fund blog, ‘A Glass Half Full’.
.@CormacRussell from @NurtureDev kicking off speaking on #ABCD approach #GlassHalfFull pic.twitter.com/yaDlh1cG9o
— Church Urban Fund (@churchurbanfund) November 11, 2015
It’s easy to use good language to cover up bad practice, says @cormac, with @churchurbanfund #ABCD pic.twitter.com/NN36Lr6gpX — Bethany Eckley (@BethanyEckley) November 11, 2015
Top panel @churchurbanfund converstion @hodgehillvicar Lucie Stephens @NEF @CormacRussell @rovlist & @BethanyEckley pic.twitter.com/rJxWEwJSH6
— Malik Gul (@MalikGul) November 11, 2015
Revolution is not about just changing the system, it is more about creating free space. @churchurbanfund #ABCD — Fr Christopher (@revdchris) November 11, 2015
.@CormacRussell at @sbf1891 drawing wisdom from story of La Leche League’s ‘mother-sized’ community-building #ABCD @churchurbanfund
— Al Barrett (@hodgehillvicar) November 11, 2015
‘What’s matters to you rather than what’s the matter with you.’ Great stuff from @CormacRussell @churchurbanfund #abcd — Bethany Eckley (@BethanyEckley) November 11, 2015
Asset Based Community Development challenges the current prevailing narrative 1.Keep it local 2.Dont scale up. @NurtureDev @churchurbanfund — Capital Mass (@capitalmass) November 11, 2015
‘It’s neighbours exchanging gifts.’ Cormac Russell demystifies Asset Based Community Development #ABCD @churchurbanfund #GlassHalfFull — Corin Pilling (@CorinPilling) November 11, 2015
“Before campaigning mode, we need to get into conversation mode. We don’t know what we need ’til we know what we have.” @CormacRussell #ABCD
— Al Barrett (@hodgehillvicar) November 11, 2015