The Participants are Revolting!
As community facilitators, we are embarking on a journey of multiple ideas, opinions and attitudes that can potentially swing from interactive, participant-led beauty to frustrated, daunting chaos!
5 ways Asset Based Community – Driven Development supports Community Initiatives
Dee Brooks shares her insights in how ABCD supports community-driven initiatives.
The Art Of Community Mapping
Above all else, when mapping the strengths and assets of a community, make sure you connect, don’t just collect!
Through the Looking Glass
My job now, is not as a consultant; it is to enter a community with open heart, open mind and open will and to continue to offer these blended gifts to communities who are in crisis
2015 ImagineBetter Assemblies – Better Imagined Community
Participant-driven gatherings, authentic discussions and real actions! This is what happened during November when a team of Aussies from the Jeder Institute and Future by Design embarked on a whirlwind tour of New Zealand with the staff of ImagineBetter, headlined by Margaret Wheatley
The Emergence of ABCD in Australia and the Asia Pacific
This is the story that involves many people, over many years, and it tells us of their work and the emergence of the language and the principles of Asset-based Community Development (ABCD) in Australia and some of its’ Asian neighbours
Early Intervention & Prevention
Download By Graeme Stuart, Dee Brooks, Cherie Stephens, Caravan Project, Family Action Centre & University of Newcastle. Early Intervention and Prevention An Australasian Focus Caravan parks play an important role in pathways in and out of homelessness; and many marginalised residents are currently, or have been, homeless (Stuart, 2007). Because of their clearly defined boundaries…
Caravan Park Project, Big Ideas Grant
Download Using ABCD with transient caravan park communities The Caravan Park Project has been developed to support residents who live in caravan parks, because they have few or no other housing options. Using an asset-based approach, the Caravan Park Project has a Big Ideas Grants (BIG) scheme to help fund initiatives that residents identify…
Person-centred, Community-driven (PCCD) Practice
Blending Person Centred Thinking and Asset-based Community Development has been both a natural progression of two powerful strengths focused approaches yet, has also been a challenge in discovering where the intersections and borders are within the stand-alone frameworks and philosophies. Person Centred Community Driven practice delivers an experience for people that shifts mindsets towards a…