ABCD Training
2 Day Workshop
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The JourneyIntroduction
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2 day ABCD Workshop
The Journey
Guiding Principles
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Tools33
Videos you can share33
66 Building Blocks
VideoVideo
Ted Talk
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Relief
Rehabilitation
Advocacy
Community Building
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Touch Stones of
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Community
Building
Practice
Community
Building
Practice
Eight Touch Stones
➢ Finding a Community Building Team
➢ Recruiting a Community Animator
➢ Hosting community conversations to
discover assets and what people care
about
➢ Engaging community groups and
associations
➢ Building connections through social
interaction and sharable opportunities
➢ Visioning and planning
➢ Implementing change (doing and
“Making the invisible, visible”
Cormac Russell
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• Our Learning Sites in the UK include: Bristol, Croydon,
Kirklees, Leeds, Gloucestershire, Thurrock, Lichfield, North
West -Manchester, Wirral, South Ayrshire and Fife.
• Outside of the UK we have a strong presence in East Africa:
Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan. We have also worked in South
Africa and many other countries around the world.
What is a
Nurture Development Learning
Site?
Neighbourhood areas that become
local community-led examples of
ABCD in action.
Our Learning Sites
1. Ayrshire & Arran
2. Bristol
3. Fife
4. Gloucestershire
5. Kirklees
6. Leeds
7. Lichfield
8. North West (Trafford)
9. Thurrock
10.Torbay
11.West Croydon
12.Wirral
Our UK Learning Sites
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Impact
• 77 Community Connectors discovered
• 300 community members actively engaged in the
process
• 240 community and voluntary organisations
actively connected to ABCD practices
• 77 Community-led Projects initiated
Paul Macey, Associate Jennine Bailey, Associate
ABCD Guides
West Croydon
Our Learning Sites
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West
Croydon
Our Learning Sites
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Wirral
Our Learning Sites
Impact so far
• 130 Local residents trained on ABCD
• 20 Community Connectors trained and being
mentored
• 5 Neighbourhoods actively engaged in community
building.
ABCD Guide
Chris Shaw, ABCD Guide & Partner Support
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Wirral
Our Learning Sites
6 Top Tips From Our UK
Experience
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
1. A local association who is committed to
community
building is critical as a host
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
2. Start by making the invisible visible
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
3. Effective community building goes at the speed
of trust
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
4. Start with what’s strong to address what is
wrong, and make what’s strong even stronger
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
5. Community Connectors are a critical
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Emerging lessons
Emerging lessons
6. The optimum size of approx. 300-3,000
City of Karratha
City of Launceston
Dorset Council
Shire of Kalamunda
City of Stirling
City of Wanneroo
City of Onkaparinga
City of Charles SturtShire of Murray
Parramatta
Gosford City Council
City of Wyndham
City of Whittlesea
Sunbury
Bass Coast Shire Council
National Network of ABCD Community Building
Learning Sites
Eight Touch Stones
We don’t mean this…
We mean this…
Which does your current community
engagement efforts most resemble?
Communities are complex, they
demand continuous learning
Touch Stone 1: Finding a
Community Building Team
Start your
Initiator group
The main protagonists:
• Leader – someone that can bring people
together to work on an issue
• Gift Giver – a person that is willing to
contribute their asset to work on an issue.
• Invisible Person – a person that has not
yet been “discovered” or been convinced to
use their assets to help achieve their
dreams or address their concerns in the
neighborhood.
The unsung hero!
• Community Builder – an individual that is good at
discovering what people care about and where
their assets can be used. Not a single issue
person!
• Gift centered
• Well connected
• Trusted
• Believe they are welcome
Touch Stone 2: Recruiting a
Community Animator
The Characteristics of
Community Animator
• A facilitator/includer
• A line back/gapper
• A community builder in their own life
• A child-like curiosity/with an adult presence
• Never does for others what they can do for themselves
Touch Stone 3 : Hosting Conversations to
Discover Assets and What People Care
About.
Discovering, Mapping and Connecting
What do people
care about
enough to work
on?
Appreciating
what’s good
about the
community
Touch Stone 4 : Engaging Local
Groups and Associations
Ask what else they want to do, who else they
know who might be interested in an ideas fair?
e.g. Faith
communities,
sporting groups,
environmental groups
etc
Informal social
networks
Do your
map
➢ Map Jam
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Touch Stone 5 : Building Connections Through Social Interaction
Activities and Shareable

Community Opportunities
➢ Skillshare/
➢ Sharefest
➢ Seed Swap
➢ Repair Cafe
➢ A Really,
Really Free
Market
➢ Swap Meet
Touch Stone 6: Visioning and
Planning
3 Key Questions:
1 What can we do?
2 What do we need outside help with?
3 What do we need outside agencies to do for us?
Touch Stone 7-Implementing Change
(Doing & Reviewing)
Touch Stone 8: Fostering
Celebration
Eight Touch Stones
➢ Finding a Community Building Team
➢ Recruiting a Community Animator
➢ Hosting community conversations to
discover assets and what people care
about
➢ Engaging community groups and
associations
➢ Building connections through social
interaction and sharable opportunities
➢ Visioning and planning
➢ Implementing change (doing and
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Summary
forms of Helping4 0.
Relief
Rehabilitation
Advocacy
Community Building
4 0. Helping
Skills, Gifts & Passions
Associations
Organisations
Local Exchange (economy)
Physical Space
Culture/Stories
Further Learning3 Mins
Video
30 Minutes
Ted Talk
3 Hours
Book
Further Learning
www.nurturedevelopment.org
@shaunburnett85
@cormacrussell
shaun@nurturedevelopment.org
cormac@nurturdevelopment.org

Kirklees abcd guide session 2 and 3