Community Engagement

Consultation is dead It's time for engagement that brings community back to life

The way to heal a living system is to connect it to more of itself – Humberto Maturana

Shapes of old style consultation

Shapes of engaged community

What is your current challenge in designing and implementing community engagement that contributes to healing in your community?

Principles of community

Hospitality

Working from powerful places

Connection

Why is it even important to live in community? What do we get from it? What can we learn about engagement from the way we do it in daily life?

Practices for engaging community

Balance work, relationships and co-learning

Put something powerful at the centre of the work

Quinault Nation Community Planning Use stories of community to make sense of work

Make meaning together

Let people organize their own thinking

Be a powerful inviter and remember that invitation is a process

Have a powerful question to which you don't know the answer

Use participatory processes to engage many voices

Let people measure their own work

Think of your best stories of community engagement What other practices can we add to this list?

http://motorcitycollective.com	13
http://www.thinking-tree.co.uk	9
http://www.slideshare.net	8
http://facilitatingwithconfidence.com	5
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by salishsea on Jan 25, 2009