Tag: Asset Based Community Development

In community, turning ‘I am, I can, I will, I do’ into ‘We are, We can, We will, We do’

January 1, 2025

As I write this it’s the end of another calendar year. I always find December into January a good time for reflection and renewal, so I will be entering 2025 holding onto this mantra: ‘We are, We can, We will, We do’. I wish you all a happy and fruitful new year of more discovery & mischief making!! … More In community, turning ‘I am, I can, I will, I do’ into ‘We are, We can, We will, We do’

This became our protest, and we ended up ‘having a riot!’

August 11, 2024

As a community we don’t really do ‘protest’ as such. Maybe something we need to think about, but our energy and time is so focused on ‘community building’, it leaves little space for much more. Our annual summer event is a celebration of this, where so many of the threads of community life come together. In the days leading up to the event we could feel an increasingly level of anxiety in the team. We had many questions running around our heads. Read on to find out what happened. … More This became our protest, and we ended up ‘having a riot!’

Community Building starts with a doorstep, a street or a block. Don’t overcomplicate it!

October 9, 2020

The last 6 months have reassured me that community building starts with a doorstep, a street or a block. Don’t overcomplicate it #ABCD #COMMUNITYBUILDING pic.twitter.com/vYV1ER07MD — Paul Wright (@LeanLeft_Wright) September 5, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Recently I posted a tweet saying that the last 6 months had reassured me that community building starts with a doorstep, a … More Community Building starts with a doorstep, a street or a block. Don’t overcomplicate it!