Category: News
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What Christchurch Can Teach Us About Participation, Place and the Power of Experimentation
At dinner last night after an AANZPA Executive meeting, Simon from Christchurch shared stories about a local initiative called Gap Filler – a creative urban regeneration social enterprise that emerged after the devastating earthquakes in Ōtautahi Christchurch. I found myself deeply moved listening to him speak.Not because everything succeeded. In fact, he said many experiments…
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Sustaining Place-Based Work – From good intentions to real impact
In a recent article, I explored place-based leadership as the practice that brings a place to life. By place-based work, I mean approaches that start with a particular community or locality – its people, relationships, strengths, history, challenges and possibilities – and bring people together to respond in ways that are grounded in that place…
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Place-Based Leadership: The Practice That Brings a Place to Life
🌱 Introduction There is a lot of strong thinking in the sector right now about place-based approaches, place strategies, social cohesion, participation, community development and systems change. Across policy and practice, the language of “place” is far more common than it was even a few years ago. The term place-based leadership is also already in…
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