The document discusses strategies for building community through public engagement, dialogue, and deliberation. It outlines challenges such as disconnection and partisan politics, and emphasizes the need for inclusion, shared purpose, and sustained engagement. Asset-based community development and deliberative forums are presented as approaches to identify community strengths, encourage cooperation, and find solutions through respectful exchange of diverse views. Examples from previous community initiatives demonstrate how these principles of public participation can strengthen relationships and foster collaborative action.
Created for the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation's 2010 regional events, this must-have resource was developed to share stories and resources with the dialogue and deliberation community, public managers, and anyone else with an interest in public engagement.
Created for the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation's 2010 regional events, this must-have resource was developed to share stories and resources with the dialogue and deliberation community, public managers, and anyone else with an interest in public engagement.
Presentation from the first of two workshops run by Social Life and Cisco about using digital technology to build community resilience in Chicago's South Side.
Recentering Democracy Around Citizens Multimedia ReportMatt Leighninger
How might we redesign local democracy around the day-to-day goals and concerns of citizens? A set of leaders in civic engagement, including representatives of national associations that represent local officials, school systems, funders, and other leaders, met in early 2010 to compare notes on their work in communities and discuss possibilities for innovation. This report describes their discussion and recommendations.
As grantmakers continue to explore ways of increasing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofits, we need to think differently about leadership and investments in individuals. There is a growing recognition that to achieve large scale change, we need to unleash collective leadership capacity within groups, organizations and communities; leverage networks using collaborative technologies; and support individuals and organizations working across differences to develop shared purpose, vision and coordinated action. To understand what is needed to achieve this scale of collaborative action, the Leadership Learning Community has joined forces with key innovators in the field to explore the topic of "Collective Leadership" as part of Leadership for a New Era – a collaborative research initiative focused on promoting leadership that is more inclusive, networked and collective. During this session, some of these innovators will present practical case studies and provide insights on models and tools for effectively supporting and evaluating the impact of collective leadership.
Inspiring young citizens to co-create social impact in their communities.
A programme that brings together mentors community stakeholders and young people, along with current up-to-date technologies to conceive an alternative to the conventional youth service.
This presentation was for my project with the GovLab "Solving Public Problems with Technology" that I participated in during Fall 2014. It briefly presents a the process of playing a tabletop role-playing game called @Stake at several Participatory Budgeting meetings and developing the mobile version.
Asset mapping is a planning tool. It\'s the synthesizing of your organizational resources – networks, people, links, and patterns – in order to build on what’s working and address challenges. Asset mapping may be the spark your need to discover, access, and mobilize unrecognized resources, and engage people who can participate in your community/organization/vision.
Presentation from the first of two workshops run by Social Life and Cisco about using digital technology to build community resilience in Chicago's South Side.
Recentering Democracy Around Citizens Multimedia ReportMatt Leighninger
How might we redesign local democracy around the day-to-day goals and concerns of citizens? A set of leaders in civic engagement, including representatives of national associations that represent local officials, school systems, funders, and other leaders, met in early 2010 to compare notes on their work in communities and discuss possibilities for innovation. This report describes their discussion and recommendations.
As grantmakers continue to explore ways of increasing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofits, we need to think differently about leadership and investments in individuals. There is a growing recognition that to achieve large scale change, we need to unleash collective leadership capacity within groups, organizations and communities; leverage networks using collaborative technologies; and support individuals and organizations working across differences to develop shared purpose, vision and coordinated action. To understand what is needed to achieve this scale of collaborative action, the Leadership Learning Community has joined forces with key innovators in the field to explore the topic of "Collective Leadership" as part of Leadership for a New Era – a collaborative research initiative focused on promoting leadership that is more inclusive, networked and collective. During this session, some of these innovators will present practical case studies and provide insights on models and tools for effectively supporting and evaluating the impact of collective leadership.
Inspiring young citizens to co-create social impact in their communities.
A programme that brings together mentors community stakeholders and young people, along with current up-to-date technologies to conceive an alternative to the conventional youth service.
This presentation was for my project with the GovLab "Solving Public Problems with Technology" that I participated in during Fall 2014. It briefly presents a the process of playing a tabletop role-playing game called @Stake at several Participatory Budgeting meetings and developing the mobile version.
Asset mapping is a planning tool. It\'s the synthesizing of your organizational resources – networks, people, links, and patterns – in order to build on what’s working and address challenges. Asset mapping may be the spark your need to discover, access, and mobilize unrecognized resources, and engage people who can participate in your community/organization/vision.
Ed McMahon's presentation from the "Expect Change; Seize Opportunity" session at CommunityMatters'10. http://www.communitymatters.org/expect-change-seize-opportunity
Tahseen Consulting’s Wes Schwalje Leads Panel on Female Retention in the GCC ...Wesley Schwalje
Schwalje outlines 5 key challenges that GCC countries must overcome to keep women in the labor force
One of the most widely reported challenges that GCC countries and companies now face is the retention of highly qualified female employees. Retention can be particularly problematic as women try to strike a balance between familial responsibilities and succeeding in the workplace. Schwalje asked the panel to reflect on five key challenges: overcoming social perceptions about occupations traditionally dominated by males, implementing female-friendly workplace policies, enabling work-life balance, developing family-friendly facilities, and articulating clear career trajectories for women.
Panel members included Khawla Al Mehairi, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communication, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Khaled Al Khudair, Founder, Glowork, and Deborah Gills, Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst. A copy of Tahseen Consulting’s analysis supporting the criticality of addressing the five panel focus themes is below along a with video that captures Schwalje’s thoughts on the way forward.
It wouldn’t be KMb without KB - Insights into the role of knowledge brokers in supporting child and youth mental health and addictions communities of interest in Ontario
by: MaryAnn Notarianni and Angela Yip
9-10 June 2014
Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum
Saskatoon, SK
Exploring Identity, Fostering Agency, Discovering How Students Benefit.pdfBonner Foundation
Join this session to learn and share best practices and emerging models for transformative education involving civic learning and democratic engagement. In a conversational format, presenters will share knowledge and personal experience about the ways in which colleges and universities, as well as faculty and staff, can design the spaces and intentional experiences that support students to develop civic identity. We’ll highlight innovations and point to supporting research and scholarship, while inviting you to do so. Presented by Marina Barnett (Widener University); Samantha Ha DiMuzio (Boston College); Ariane Hoy (Bonner Foundation); and Paul Schadewald (Bringing Theory to Practice) for the Feb 6-7, 2023 CLDE Forum: Bridging the Divides: Including All Students: Diversity, Equity, and High-Impact Civic Learning Pathways
Vireo Research had the pleasure of speaking at the annual QRD conference (qrdconference2014.mria-arim.ca/) in February 2014.
This presentation covers: the benefits of building a research community within your online community, how using research brings your community closer together through co-creation, how community begets community in the social good space, co-creation and the highly engaged advocate, research methods/reporting that facilitate action and engagement, includes recent successful examples from our work.
Diving Deep: Growing the Field of Civic Engagement Practitioner-ScholarsIowa Campus Compact
This session will be an engaging conversation for current and future civic engagement practitioners, practitioner-scholars, and those who support their work. Attendees will be among the first to review and utilize a new publication resource guiding professional development and career advancement for professionals. Attendees will engage in a conversation with a panel about this publication. The discussion will focus on a framework for understanding the competencies needed in the role of community service-learning professional. The session will review four categories, as outlined in the publication: Organizational Manager, Institutional Strategic Leader, Field Contributor, and Community Innovator. In the first half of the session, a panel of practitioners who helped to develop the framework and publication will reflect on their experiences and engage attendees in a discussion of challenges and lessons learned. The second half of the session will allow attendees to utilize this framework in order to think about and plan for their own professional development and the position of their work in the institution and community. Facilitators will lead a process of personal inventory and allow time for discussion and planning of development opportunities for field and career advancement.
Emily Shields
Executive Director
Iowa Campus Compact
Mandi McReynolds
Director of Community Engagement and Service Learning
Drake University
Community Engagementand Capacity Buildingin Cultural PlanningEmily Robson
Presentation delivered by Kohl, Community Animator
Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition at The Ontario Rural Council's "Economies in Transition" municipal cultural planning forum in Brockville on November 17, 2008.
Bonner Student Developmental Model and Staff Pipeline ProjectBonner Foundation
This is for the Bonner Foundation's 2018 Summer Leadership Institute. We will be discussing the Bonner Student Developmental Model and sharing work on the new Staff Developmental Pipeline Project.
4. Challenges we’re facing…
Disillusionment with public institutions
Partisan politics fostering “us against them”
attitudes
Social fabric strained by disconnection, isolation
and “echo chamber”
Complex, growing challenges no one entity can
solve
“Customer” view of government
Few places where people can build their “civic
muscle” in ways that feel safe, practical and
productive
5. What we need more of…
Processes that encourage participation,
personal responsibility, cooperation and action
Moving from a “deficit” based perspective of
community to one that sees and leverages
“assets”
Deliberative conversations that consider
diverse views and values, and weigh carefully
the tradeoffs of possible actions
Opportunities to strengthen relationships
through meaningful dialogue about issues that
matter
6. Core Principles for Public
Engagement
Careful planning Transparency and
and preparation trust
Inclusion and Impact and action
demographic Sustained
diversity engagement and
Collaboration and participatory culture
shared purpose
Openness and
learning
From National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
7. Core Principles for Public
Engagement
Careful planning Transparency and
and preparation trust
Inclusion and Impact and action
demographic
diversity Sustained
Collaboration and engagement and
shared purpose participatory
Openness and culture
learning
From National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
8. Asset-Based Community
Development
INCLUSION
& “ABCD helps us see people and
DIVERSITY places not as problems for experts
to solve, but as being full of hidden
assets, skills and strengths that
can be harnessed.”
- Kretzmann & McKnight
9. Asset-Based Community
Development
It is the capacities of local
people and their
associations that build
powerful communities.
ABCD is a place-based
approach focusing on the
assets of an identified
geographic area. The focus is
on identifying the individuals
that already care about issues
and mobilizing their action.
10. Three “Acts” of ABCD
Source: ABCD Fellow Dan Dunchan www.hddabcd.org
11. Asset Mapping
Is NOT just another list of resources.
It IS:
A strategy to identify assets that are available
from within the community
A process for connecting and engaging the
community and using the talents of people to
help solve problems and build a better
community
12.
13.
14. Asset Mapping Steps
Create a Resident Leadership Team
Select the geographic area for action
Draw first Asset Map
Identify individual gifts and passions
Draw second Asset Map
Connect people with the same passions to act
collectively
Celebrate
Source: ABCD Fellow Dan Dunchan www.hddabcd.org
18. Identify individual gifts and
passions
Conduct a gift inventory
Interview people you know
What gifts, skills or abilities are they’re willing to
share?
What issues do they care about?
What associations to they belong to?
Who else do they know in the neighborhood
and would they be willing to interview them?
Source: ABCD Fellow Dan Dunchan www.hddabcd.org
19. Create a Second Asset Map
Group and map by passions
Source: ABCD Fellow Dan Dunchan www.hddabcd.org
25. Examples of initiatives since
2008:
Physical Health:
• New fitness classes
• Weight-loss and fitness
competitions
• Development of walking trails
Social Health:
• Adding healthy foods to
community events
• Created Scottish Festival
Economic Health:
• Created microenterprise loan
program Fellow Dan Dunchan www.hddabcd.org
Source: ABCD
26. Deliberative Forums
IMPACT
& Deliberation is “the kind of reasoning
ACTION and talking we do when a difficult
decision has to be made, a great deal
is at stake, and there are competing
options or approaches we might take.
It means to weigh possible actions
carefully by examining what is most
valuable to us.”
27. DEBATE VS. DELIBERATION
DEBATE DELIBERATION
• Searching for • Searching for strength
differences in another position
• Seeks to prove others • Seeks common
understanding
wrong
• Reveals assumptions
• Defends assumptions for reevaluation
as truth • Listen to understand
• Listen to find flaws and find meaning in
and counter agreement
arguments • Goal is to find
• Goal is to win common ground for
action
28. Strategies for changing the
conversation
Structured conversation with ground rules
Authentic framing or discussion guide
Neutral and trained moderator and recorder
Committed participants
Deliberation is based on the premise that many
people have pieces of the answer and that
together they forge new approaches and
solutions.
29. Why a Deliberative Forum?
Learn the concerns people have about an
issue.
Foster willingness to examine all sides of
possible choices.
Identify the consequences, costs, and
benefits associated with various approaches.
Work through the inherent conflicts and
identify shared values
Find a shared sense of direction or common
ground for public action.
30. Why a Deliberative Forum?
Helps people more deeply understand their own
views and those of others
Creates new opportunities for collaboration
Helps people see new possibilities for action
Strengthens relationships
Gives policy makers clarity on priorities and
tradeoffs people are willing to accept
38. Community Dialogues
“Dialogue is a process of genuine
SUSTAINED
interaction through which human
ENGAGEMENT beings listen to each other deeply
enough to be changed by what they
learn. Each makes a serious effort to
take others’ concerns into her or his
own picture, even when disagreement
persists. No participant gives up her
or his identity, but each recognizes
enough of the other’s valid human
claims that he or she will act
differently toward the other.”
- Harold Saunders, A Public Peace Process
39.
40. Interfaith Community Small-group
Dialogues open to the conversations on topics
public. Hosted by such as:
Interfaith Action of
Central Texas since • Civility and
2009 Polarization
• Reconciliation
• Religion and the State
• Authenticity
• Security
• Wisdom
• Connectivity
41. Conversation Café
The Circle
The Host
Simple and The Agreements
Elegant Design:
The Talking Object
The Rounds
From Conversation Café – www.conversationcafe.org
42. The Agreements
Open-mindedness: Listen to and respect all points
of view.
Acceptance: Suspend judgment as best you can.
Curiosity: Seek to understand rather than persuade.
Discovery: Question assumptions, look for new
insights.
Sincerity: Speak from your heart and personal
experience. From Conversation Café – www.conversationcafe.org
43. The Process
The Circle – Rounds of 6 to 8 people
The Topic – A question, theme or topic the group
will explore
Host – Introductions, Agreements, Process
Talking Object – To foster deeper listening and
speaking
Rounds – First Round, Open Dialogue, Final
Round
From Conversation Café – www.conversationcafe.org
44. The Benefits
Simple, effective model that is easy to
implement
Moves people from “small talk” to
conversations that matter
Helps people have experience of being
heard and having civil, thoughtful
conversation
Fosters understanding and builds
relationships
From Conversation Café – www.conversationcafe.org
46. Resources and Contact
information
National Coalition for Dialogue &
Deliberation
www.ncdd.org
National Issues Forums
www.nifi.org
Conversation Café
www.conversationcafe.org
Asset Based Community Development
www.abcdinstitute.org
Diane Miller, (512) 971-3033, dmiller@civiccollaboration.com
Editor's Notes
Planning – adequate, inclusive, thorough – clearly defined purposeInclusion – proactively and equitably include diverse people and ideasCollaboration – encourage participants, government, community institutions to work together to come up with solutions that work for allOpenness – encourage listening, exploring new ideas, generate new optionsTransparency – clear about process, provide access to output generated in public processImpact – ensure effort and participant input has potential to make a difference; communicate how it didSustained – promote ongoing practice of public engagement – becomes the norm