Why is Person-Centred Planning so Important for Providing Effective Support?
Author: Charlotte Saunders, Behaviour Support Practitioner Due Date: December 2019 Publish Date: December 2019 According to the Human Rights Commission, international law, and national law, we all have the right to make choices for ourselves and have control over our … Continue reading →
Finding a housemate
Ethan grew up in Sydney’s inner west where he also went to school. He is a young man living with Autism and a moderate intellectual disability, but that doesn’t stop his from living his best life. A few years ago, … Continue reading →
Exploring the Powers of Sound and Vision
A Jeder Institute Project Author: Aleks Jovanovic Due Date: December 2019 Publish Date: December 2019 The music in you “There’s a musician and an artist in all of us.” – AJ Jeder Institute members Aleks Jovanovic and Mark have … Continue reading →
Connector Leaders
“A comparison study was undertaken between the asset-based community-led development (ABCD) approaches versus the traditional needs-based approach to community development relating to community leadership
Continue reading →Squaring off the Triangle
how Asset-based Community-led Development (ABCD) supports & strengthens Art of Hosting (AoH) practices in community engagement & development work.
By Dee Brooks
Continue reading →Conscious Co-Design
Conscious Co-Design: creating safe spaces to explore vulnerability in complexity By Dee Brooks Locating yourself within a number of given community engagement and development frameworks can be exciting, stress relieving and can open up new possibilities. Patterns in frameworks are … Continue reading →
The Asset Mapping Atlas
Over the years, we have adapted (from others) and developed (our own) practical and emergent ways of discovering assets, both active and latent, in community to support community-led mobilisation for change.
Continue reading →Top 100 Partners Exercise
“Imagine a meeting of 60 people, where in an hour you would have heard everyone and at the end you would have precisely identified the 5 most important points that people are willing to act on together
Continue reading →Reflections of a Reluctant Apprentice
By Kerry Hartigan
I know that not all participants end up being practitioners. I know that not all stewards have been apprentices. I believe that there are natural AoH practitioners who come with innate wisdom and experience, without ever joining an AoH gathering. I began to wonder what it would look like if people were asked: ‘Tell me about your AoH journey?”
Continue reading →The Art of Coasting Stewardship and Beyond!
By Dee Brooks and Kerry Hartigan
Art of Hosting, Ballina, NSW, Australia
The Art of Coasting provided a place to “hold space” for ourselves and each other for gentle healing and catharsis and also for genuine learning and growth. As a Core Team, we all left this training feeling like we had equally contributed, we had experienced a deep learning together and we were equally valued.
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