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This area is filled with how-to articles, engaging conversations, and tons of examples of Catalytic Thinking in Action including actual planning sessions. Much to explore and learn from!
(This is Part 7: Community-Driven Tour 2010 New Zealand. To read these posts from the beginning, head here.) We flew to Christchurch then drove to Queenstown via Lake Tekapo, a lake made mesmerizingly green-blue by mineral deposits. Dimitri had made reservations at an apartment hotel in Queenstown that seemed online to be luxurious for the … Read more
(Part 2: Community-Driven Tour 2010 in New Zealand. To read these posts from the beginning, head here.) The Class Consultant Class #8 in New Zealand. Ten brilliant minds, all part of UNITEC’s Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management, spent 5 days re-training their brains to focus on potential and possibility (vs. problem-solving). We learned from their … Read more
What’s in a name? A whole lot! We have been talking for a while about a name change at the Community-Driven Institute. If you’ve read the posts that describe the Institute’s vision, its accomplishments towards that vision, its goals for the coming 2 years, you know that the name “Community-Driven Institute” just doesn’t cut it. … Read more
It is the evening of Day 2 of our immersion course for Consultants as Catalysts for Community Change. And as always happens, teachers emerge everywhere – we are all learning, and all teaching. It is an honor to be part of this process. We were also honored last week, when 2 Immersion Course veterans, Randa … Read more
The vision of the Community Driven Institute is a healthy, vibrant, resilient, peaceful, humane world. To make that vision a reality for all of us, the mission of the Institute is to encourage and support the Community Benefit sector to leverage its considerable resources to do so. In developing our plans for the next 12-24 … Read more
The more we dive into what it means to run the Community-Driven Institute with true transparency, the more we learn at every step. This week’s Q&A session on Community-Driven Consulting is turning out to be yet another example of that! Our intent had been simple: Folks have lots of questions and preconceived notions about what … Read more
As we head into the New Year, I was intending to take this space to share our plans for 2010 with you all. And then fate intervened, in the form of one of our Immersion Course graduates, Menachem Kniespeck. (I will indeed share those plans – you will see them here next week.) For those … Read more
This week, Clyde announced it is officially the holiday season! Given the focus on Transparency & Engagement that has captured me the past few weeks, it seems only fitting that I re-post last year’s post introducing Clyde. Somehow that post is even more appropriate this year than it was last year. Enjoy! ***** If Community … Read more
From Parts 1 & 2 of this series, we begin to see how much can be accomplished by authentic, transparent community engagement – the power of gardening in the front yard. The following are some of my observations as we’ve worked to put transparent engagement into practice in the various organizations we have founded over … Read more
Yesterday’s post originally ran 2 years ago. The comments following both the original post and its re-run yesterday talked about a hesitancy to be transparent, the desire to keep organizational issues in the “back yard” where no one would see them. I can understand that. Building the Community-Driven Institute, Dimitri and I often wonder how … Read more