Tag: social cohesion
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Building Social Cohesion the ABCD Way: Reflections from Culture Waves
At first glance, some people may not immediately connect social cohesion programs like Culture Waves with ABCD (Asset-Based Community Development). But for me, the links are very real. Perhaps because I have never experienced ABCD simply as a framework to preach or a workshop to deliver – but something to live and breathe through practice.…
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Third Spaces: The Missing Infrastructure of Belonging
There’s something happening beneath the surface of our communities.You can feel it in conversations.You can see it in the way people move through spaces.You can hear it in what’s said – and what’s not being said.People are around each other…but not really with each other.We are more connected than ever digitally – yet increasingly alone.And…
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Stronger Together Three ABCD lessons on why competing in the public and community sector is a dead end
In the public, community, and NGO sector, competition has quietly become normal.Organisations compete for funding, visibility, territory, influence, and expertise. We often accept this as “just the way it is”, even though it feels absurd and misaligned with why many of us entered this work in the first place. From an Asset Based Community Development…
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Co-Creating Social Cohesion: A Soulgen Action-Research & Community Healing Initiative
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…
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Holding the Whole
Ripples from Bondi: What social cohesion is, what it isn’t – and what it will take now I’m finding it hard to find the right words for what has unfolded over recent days. Across Bondi, Sydney, and beyond, it has felt like a dark cloud has descended at the very end of the year –…
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