Category: News
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Podcast Episode: From Passion to Action: Growing a Community of Cooks River Changemakers
Pip: What if the first question you asked a community wasn’t “what’s broken here” but “what do you already have?” That’s the thread running through dsoulgen’s recent work, and it turns out the answer is usually more interesting than the problem. Mara: This episode follows one extended case study — a community development program built…
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Children and Young People: Our Most Underutilised Community Asset?
What a walk through Parramatta reminded me about moving beyond identifying assets to connecting and mobilising them – and bringing places to life. At a recent workshop with Cormac Russell, hosted by Resourcing Inclusive Communities in Parramatta, we were invited to do something very simple. Leave the room. Walk through the neighbourhood. And notice the…
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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…