Category: Frameworks for Change
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From Heroes to Hosts – Why Facilitation Is the Work of Our Time
I woke up at 3am the other night with a strong feeling that wouldn’t let me go.Facilitation matters. Not as a technique. Not as a role or job title. But as something essential for the moment we’re living in.It matters because the world is facing problems that can’t be solved by experts alone. Climate and…
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🌿 Appreciative Inquiry: Asking What’s Strong to Inspire What’s Possible
In youth and community development work, the questions we ask shape the worlds we create. Developed at Case Western Reserve University, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) offers a strength-based alternative to traditional problem-solving approaches.Instead of asking “What’s wrong, and how do we fix it?” AI begins with “What’s working, what gives life, and what could be?” It’s…
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Rethinking How We Work: Why Complex Times Call for Place-Based, Asset-Driven Collaboration
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 social cohesion amid growing polarisation. These aren’t isolated challenges; they are systemic – stretching across…
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