Art of Participatory Community Building – Albany 2019

Art of Participatory Community Building – Albany 2019 Date: 22nd – 24th May 2019 Location: Albany, NSW Core Team: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Liz Nicholas (Link West), Josephine Lebbing (Community Empowerment Network), Petra Thompson (Denmark Community Resource Centre) & Tammy Flett (City of Albany) Many of the challenges faced by individuals and communities require transformational…

Conscious Co-Design

Conscious Co-Design: creating safe spaces to explore vulnerability in complexity Written by Dee Brooks Locating yourself within a number of given community engagement and development frameworks can be exciting, stress relieving and can open up new possibilities. Patterns in frameworks are as natural, and needed, as breathing; you just don’t know what you don’t know!…

Reflections of a Reluctant Apprentice

By Kerry Hartigan

I know that not all participants end up being practitioners. I know that not all stewards have been apprentices.  I believe that there are natural AoH practitioners who come with innate wisdom and experience, without ever joining an AoH gathering. I began to wonder what it would look like if people were asked: ‘Tell me about your AoH journey?”