The Road to A Good Life: 5 Valued Experiences
April 12, 2019
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John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien are thinkers and change makers from Canada whose conceptual and applied offerings in the inclusion space have changed the...
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Three Guidelines to Choosing Words Well
The more stories I hear, the more my conviction grows that well chosen words and stories can transform people. Here are three borrowed rules...
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Beware of the Progressives Part 2: Intermediate Innovation
Overreach: going beyond one’s personal or institutional capacity to a point where a person or organisation becomes counter-productive....
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Beware of the Progressives (Part 1)
The harsh reality is that some of the folk who appear socially progressive, are more interested in career progress than in authentic social change....
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Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 2 of 2
Individually we can’t create society, as it is the sum of our interactions, intermeshed with knowledge and traditions from the past and concerns, hopes...
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Universal Unconditional Basic Empathy Part 1 of 2
The real proving ground is community responsiveness to it’s needs. This forms the test against which ability to meet necessities breeds creativity, inventiveness and...
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Beyond Good Intentions; Towards A Good Life
Mostly with good intentions, institutions develop processes that degrade the human capacity, inventiveness and autonomy of the person/persons they serve....
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Empathy not Sympathy
Sympathy creates dependence between ‘the needy’ and the ‘needed’, at the expense of interdependence at the center of community life. Empathy invites people who...
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Thinking Differently About Funding
How do you preserve community power and autonomy in the face of grants from organizations that have predefined the agenda before communities have even...
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Touchstone Two: Recruiting a Community Animator
The strength of a community or the various groups that make it up, should not be measured by the capacity of individual leaders but...
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The Social Innovators Code (10 principles)
Trevor Baylis and Manu Prakash are two social innovators I consider as having a lot to teach us about offering help from the outside...
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Apathy is not the Problem
There is no such thing as an apathetic neighbour, only an inflexible community building effort, in need of a few more whistles, and a...
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