We must move beyond talking about what ‘community’ means, to “doing” community together in meaningful ways....
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Rather than client or customer, when you refer to someone as a citizen you see them as a primary inventor of a better tomorrow...
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Two years ago on today's date the national newspaper The Irish Times led with the front page headline: “Economic activity returns to pre-crash levels”. Was this...
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Audio recording, John McKnight, Peter Block and Cormac Russell in conversation. They discuss concepts of Learning Sites, Community Animators and a wide range of...
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"I believe it is time to state clearly that specific situations and circumstances are "sickening," rather than that people themselves are sick. The symptoms...
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Once we were free, feral and tribal. We traded among our tribes using gift exchange and bartered with enemies and strangers. Then Pharaohs and their...
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As a team at Nurture Development, we have the privilege of learning alongside 1000’s of citizens, practitioners and leaders every year. As 2016 draws...
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Communities that choose quality problems together, stay together, or at least build the power to choose either way. In personal and public life, our problems...
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The paradox of the marketplace is that even when we are not wanted as producers, we're needed as consumers. It promotes forms of production and...
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First, let me say thanks to everyone who took time to participate in the conversation around last week’s blog. Building on that conversation, I’d...
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The paper ‘Neoliberalism with a community face?: A critical analysis of asset-based community development in Scotland (MacLeod, MA & Emejulu, A) 2014, is one...
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Imagine a context in which it makes sense to call a horse an unwheeled automobile. Where to gain respect for the natural things in...
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