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🌿 Place-Based Relational Praxis

Nov 8, 2025

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dsoulgen

in Frameworks for Change

In my previous article, Rethinking How We Work: Why Complex Times Call for Place-Based, Asset-Driven Collaboration, I explored the frameworks that help us work better together across systems and communities. This time, I want to slow down.Before we design another…
Rethinking How We Work: Why Complex Times Call for Place-Based, Asset-Driven Collaboration

Nov 7, 2025

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by

dsoulgen

in Frameworks for Change

Across Australia, councils are being called to respond to an era of overlapping and interconnected crises – or what some now call meta-crises: housing affordability, domestic and family violence, climate stress, youth disengagement, social isolation, and the fraying threads of…
🌿 Starting from the Inside Out

Oct 26, 2025

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by

dsoulgen

in Frameworks for Change

Often, people refer to me as one of the go-to people for ABCD (and youth practice) in NSW, which is both humbling and affirming. Of course, I stand on the shoulders of giants – too many to name here –…