What is a Bumping Space?
October 1, 2021
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This is a Guest Blog from Glyn Butcher (@glynbutcher/@pfgdoncaster) Today I was asked this question and it got me thinking. Bumping Spaces are places in the...
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The Path of an ABCD Guide
I am excited to tell you about one of our latest online courses. Over the years, as people have deepened their Asset-Based Community Development...
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The Helper’s Crossroads
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Skills for Care and Nurture Development invitation: Making the invisible visible where you live
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Nurture Development Course on Commissioning & Service Transformation: Through the Lens of ABCD
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Polarization Part 3: Sacred Cows and Citizen Forums
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Polarisation Part 2: Growing Up In Between: Strangers, Gods and Monsters
In responding to last week’s blog Simon Duffy President of the Citizens Network Coop, noted: “@CormacRussell says polarsation is not caused by extremism. Extremism feeds...
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The Case for Civic Forums: Thinking Differently About Polarization
Those who frame the issues hold the power. Social, political and economic challenges are typically framed in ways that most citizens don’t get a...
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Kettering Foundation Review of Rekindling Democracy
The author focuses on rebuilding democracy from the asset-based community development (ABCD) perspective. ABCD builds on what is already present within a community; citizens are collectively...
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