Practical Participation
Community development approaches
The group then explored a wide range of approaches to community development and how best to build an effective plan using the strengths of a range of methods. Methods along the top ranged from being asked stuff on the left, through doing stuff in the middle to running things on the right.
The map showed that for people to end up wanting to run things, we usually first need the experience of being listened and responded to on the things most immediately important to us and second to have had good experiences of doing things in way were we felt valued and supported.
Community development approaches
The group then explored a wide range of approaches to community development and how best to build an effective plan using the strengths of a range of methods. Methods along the top ranged from being asked stuff on the left, through doing stuff in the middle to running things on the right.
The map showed that for people to end up wanting to run things, we usually first need the experience of being listened and responded to on the things most immediately important to us and second to have had good experiences of doing things in way were we felt valued and supported.