Art of Participatory Community Building - Charters Towers 2018
Date: 2nd – 4th October 2018
Location: Charters Towers, Townsville, QLD
Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Denise Bijoux (Catalyse New Zealand) and Melanie Adams and Tamika Mihill (Prospect Services)
Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational change, which can best be achieved by focusing on the strengths within. Ways to access and build on these strengths include:
- Citizen & Community-led Initiatives
- Asset-based or Place-based projects
- Collective Impact & Action work
- Co-Production, Collaboration & Community Conversations
- Participatory Citizen’s Juries, Participatory Budgeting, & more
Over the 3 days of this immersion workshop, 25 participants from Charters Towers, Townsville and Bowen, met in Charters Towers at Blackheath and Thornburgh College and experienced how to blend ABCD with a range of powerful strengths-based approaches to community work and complementary methodologies to create powerful outcomes and left with practical tools & skills on how to:
- Focus on assets and strengths rather than deficiencies
- Discover ways to blend methodologies
- Apply strengths-based monitoring and evaluation
- Build effective partnership strategies
- Increase confidence in hosting group work
- Form powerful enquiries and proposals
- Explore group dynamics and decision-making
