The paradox of bottom up community development and top down consultancy Written by Dee Brooks The Jeder Institute is a strengths-focused, not-for-profit, messy, imperfect, next-stage organisation, based on decades of asset-based community development and person-centred practices, blended participatory leadership approaches and is uniquely based on our own member-led horizontal governance platform. Power and Participation As…
Download Discoverables, not deliverables: Turning gifts into actions! By Dee Brooks One way to discover the gifts that you, and others, can offer your community is through an exercise we call “5H’s” (you can find examples of how you might facilitate this as an activity by clicking on the link above). Based on the ABCD…
Dee Brooks, Agitator, Blender and Chief Hugger of the Jeder Institute, provides a brief overview of Asset Mapping to truly mobilize communities. Please join the conversation around community development and the asset-based approach to community development, leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. And hit the subscribe button to follow us. About Communities@Work…
Written by Fiona Miller Placemaking is a multi-layered approach to the planning, design and organisation of public spaces. Placemaking focusses on the broad spectrum of all local community assets. It creates places and spaces that promote connection, good health and wellbeing and can bring happiness. Good Placemaking is: Community driven and collaborative Relevant to…
Written by Michelle Dunscombe The last few months have been challenging for me as the current disastrous bushfires burn across my beautiful Australian landscape from bush to beach. At times I have been catapulted back to February 2009, when my own community faced the full ferocity of Black Saturday. An event that changed me, my…
Based on reflections of the concept of The Natural and the Open from The Apparatus, by Giorgio Agamben Written by: Dee Brooks The overview of Conscious Co-Design (CCD) offers a space for inquiry and conscious decision making when practically applying a number of community engagement and development frameworks, including their practices, processes, patterns and guiding…
Written by 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 own lives. This includes (but is not limited to) making decisions we feel are…
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, Ethan and his Mother Claudia made a sea change and moved to the Illawarra region.…
A Jeder Institute Project Written by 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 set out to explore the power of music by looking for people who…
