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🌿 The Real Value of Asset-Based Community Development Training

Jan 19, 2026

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Why Councils and Community Organisations Keep Calling for ABCD Across councils, youth services, libraries, placemaking teams, neighbourhood centres, and community organisations, one theme has become clear over the last decade: we need approaches that move beyond deficit-based thinking and activate the strengths already present in our communities. That’s where Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) training continues…

Co-Creating Social Cohesion: A Soulgen Action-Research & Community Healing Initiative

Dec 27, 2025

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Over recent months, many people across our communities have been carrying a heavier emotional load than usual. There is grief. There is fear. There is fragmentation and uncertainty. And alongside all of that, there is also a deep longing – for connection, belonging, safety, and hope. Moments like these remind us that social cohesion is…

🌿 Beyond Empowerment: How ABCD Activates Youth & Community Potential

Dec 7, 2025

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Across councils, youth services, libraries, neighbourhood centres and community organisations, one aspiration is repeated again and again: “We want meaningful youth participation. We want community engagement, we want empowerment. We want youth-led practice.” But in the rush to “empower” young people, our sector often relies on approaches that are important yet incomplete: Rights-Based, Participation-Based, and…

🌿 Cultural Humility: When Cultural Competence Isn’t Enough

Nov 27, 2025

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dsoulgen

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Whether we’re working with multicultural communities, First Nations peoples, newly arrived families, interfaith groups, or long-established neighbourhoods across Australia, we often hear the same phrases: “cultural competence,” “cross-cultural skills,” “culturally appropriate practice.” These terms suggest that culture is something we can master – a body of knowledge we can study until we “know enough.” But…

🌿 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 strategy, form another partnership, or launch another initiative, let’s talk about the conditions that allow…

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🌿 The Real Value of Asset-Based Community Development Training

Co-Creating Social Cohesion: A Soulgen Action-Research & Community Healing Initiative

🌿 Beyond Empowerment: How ABCD Activates Youth & Community Potential

🌿 Cultural Humility: When Cultural Competence Isn’t Enough

🌿 Place-Based Relational Praxis