Art of Participatory Community Building – East Sussex 2019 Date: 9th – 21st June 2019 Location: East Sussex Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Jackie Saul-Hunt (Rother Voluntary Action), Terry Hume and Jen Walls (East Sussex County Council), & Julia Roberts (Culture Shift) Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational change,…
“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
Art of Participatory Community Building – Albany 2019 Date: 22nd – 24th May 2019 Location: Albany, NSW Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Liz Nicholas (Link West), Josephine Lebbing (Community Empowerment Network), Petra Thompson (Denmark Community Resource Centre) & Tammy Flett (City of Albany) Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational…
how Asset-based Community-led Development (ABCD) supports & strengthens Art of Hosting (AoH) practices in community engagement & development work.
By Dee Brooks
Art of Participatory Community Building – Launceston 2019 Date: 14th – 16th May 2019 Location: Newstead, Launceston, TAS Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Fiona Miller (NEYG) and Tracy Eddington-McKay (Burnie Community House) Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational change, which can best be achieved by focusing on the strengths…
Conscious Co-Design: creating safe spaces to explore vulnerability in complexity Written 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 as natural, and needed, as breathing; you just don’t know what you don’t know!…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Moreland 2019 Date: 10th – 12th April 2019 Location: Oxygen Youth Services, Coburg, VIC Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe & Bernadette Heatherington (Moreland City Council) Thank Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational change, which can best be achieved by focusing on the strengths…
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.
