Gifts on Display
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Embracing Deviance
By John McKnight Co-Director, Asset Based Community Development Institute from the John McKnight Learning Series One...
The Affinity Dilemma
By John McKnight Co-Director, Asset Based Community Development Institute from the John McKnight Learning Series The...
The Dilemma of Meetings
By John McKnight Co-Director, Asset Based Community Development Institute from the John McKnight Learning Series In...
The Problem With Problems
By John McKnight Co-Director, Asset Based Community Development Institute from the John McKnight Learning Series At...
An Introduction to ABCD
A two-day workshop introducing the principles and applications of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in the context...
ABCD Workshop Coming to Cincinnati
You’re invited to participate in an engaging two-day Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) approach workshop led by...
Engaging Neighbors Opens Thinking for Health Professionals
Lisa Gale Hadden, Michigan Area Health Education Center executive director, has learned that when medical and nursing students go to neighborhoods to talk with families about their health they discover untapped resources and assets.
“They really saw the value in connecting to the neighborhood health wisdom and used that to become better health care professionals. It changed their care planning for their patients.” Students asked appreciative, open-ended questions to discover how neighbors define their own health in their own terms. Twenty years later, the students have who are now practitioners are still talking about it.
In this conversation, Lisa – who acts as a bridge between medical and community knowledge in her work – shares more about this experience with John McKnight and Peter Block.
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“The more that there’s income equality in a community, or city, or town the healthier people are.” – Lisa Gale Hadden
“Our advice (to students) has always been . . . you’re there first and foremost to just be a neighbor. I think our students really began to see that as they developed relationships with our neighbors.” – Lisa Gale Hadden
Exploring transformational neighborhood change: Rich Jones
What happens when neighborhoods change? This article by Rich Jones, originally published in Streetvibes newspaper, explores...
Cormac Russell: Health Beyond Healthcare
In the UK, 40 percent of people engaging with the biomedical world through their GP are...
The Good Life Conversation
Cormac Russell developed a set of 25 questions to create more life enhancing conversations. In his...
Exploring How Community Animators Work: Cormac Russell
Tune into this insightful conversation with Cormac Russell. Cormac, Managing Director of UK-based Nurture Development, has been doing asset based community work in over 100 neighborhoods around the world.
In this conversation, Cormac shares the 8 Touchstones he developed for animating neighborhood relationships. He also shares about learning sites, the role of the community animator and connector, and lessons being learned.
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“A lot of our work is about just calling people into a radical presence and a radical act of revealing what’s here, and how we can get that connected up and mobilized.” – Cormac Russell
“We are very focused on how we can accompany local residents and interested practitioners on the journey of getting into right relationship with each other. That’s a critical first touchstone.” – Cormac
Russell
Photo via Nurture Development
Small Town Invites Younger Generation to Come Home
Former mayor Priscilla Corcoran Mooney talks with John McKnight and Peter Block about community life in the small coastal town of Branch, Newfoundland, Canada. In 2007, Branch town council held a “come home” reunion-type event and listed the “Top 21 Reasons to live in Branch,” attracting national media attention. Branch citizens are known for their strong sense of belonging.
Priscilla shares about initiatives connecting people and contributing to well-being, such as a community dinner where photo slideshows spark conversation and a corner store with healthier food options.
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Related Link:
Top 21 Reasons to Live in Branch
In Search of the Tie That Binds
Photo: torkhum on Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0 In his article, John McKnight shares about two new...
Neighborhood initiative impacting social health
In Rochester NY, Deborah Puntenney and her network are transforming the conventional wisdom about how foundation money can produce resident health outcomes. Eight years into the project with the Greater Rochester Health Foundation they are investing in the social determinants of health through grassroots, place-based and resident-driven efforts. This is not about more health services.
The foundation and a group of its grantees formed the Neighborhood Health Status Improvement Initiative, where four neighborhood groups are using Asset Based Community Development to work on health-related issues.
Deborah shares examples from an inner-city community in this conversation with Peter Block and John McKnight:
Related Links:
dpuntenney.com
thegrhf.org/funding/neighborhood-health/
photo courtesy Pixabay.com
Upcoming Community Action and Health Discussion
How does community action shape health? This will be the focus of a June 6 conversation...
Peter Block and John McKnight in Conversation
On Dec. 12, 2016, more than 60 callers listened to Peter Block and John McKnight reflect on their long history of working to building communities by focusing on gifts and connecting people. They discuss what ideas have endured and what questions remain. (more…)
