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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8. Reforming our systems is the answer.
Services may be a very valuable route into change, they are never an end in themselves or de facto the only route available...
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5. Neoliberal economies are here to stay.
Neoliberal economies are enveloped within a fable that the more networked and expansive economies become, the more wealth trickles down to include everyone....
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10 Deficit-based Assumptions that must be debunked
We will be broadening the scope of the conversation to consider changing the narrative in ten key areas....
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How Policies Can Invert Democracy
To date the BY spaces have been known for the sum of their problems, not for their abundance of hospitality, gift-giving capacity or associational...
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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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Subjects, Clients, Customers… or Citizens? (Words Matter)
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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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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A Christmas Wish
My wish this Christmas is that we would recognize that we and our neighbours through our deep commitment to each other are the real...
Read MoreIt’s from fallibility that possibility arises
On the morning of November 25, 2016 (Thanksgiving Day), John McKnight (Founding Director of the ABCD Institute) and Cormac Russell (Director of ABCD Europe)...
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Sharing our Theory of (Practice Based) Change
This blog aims to build upon last week’s three part series entitled 13 Staging Posts of Learning and Development. We’d like to lift out...
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Our 13 Staging Posts in Learning and Development – part 3
To conclude this three part series (Part 1 and Part 2), we will be offering the final 4 staging posts in Learning and Development....
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