Dee Brooks, Agitator, Blender and Chief Hugger of the Jeder Institute, provides a brief overview of Asset Mapping to truly mobilize communities. Please join the conversation around community development and the asset-based approach to community development, leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. And hit the subscribe button to follow us. About Communities@Work…
Download July Newsletter As COVID-19 continues to have an impact across Melbourne and Sydney, our thoughts are with the amazing health care workers, support workers, neighbourhood and community houses and the incredible volunteers, who are tirelessly working to support people across our communities. Whilst COVID might have grounded our community building team, Dee, Fiona and…
Written by Fiona Miller Placemaking is a multi-layered approach to the planning, design and organisation of public spaces. Placemaking focusses on the broad spectrum of all local community assets. It creates places and spaces that promote connection, good health and wellbeing and can bring happiness. Good Placemaking is: Community driven and collaborative Relevant to…
Download May Newsletter Sit back grab a cuppa and enjoy this month’s Jeder Yarns offering. We hope you enjoy the stories, events, tips and tools below. As we all start to emerge from the our COVID restrictions, we urge you all to continue to take care, keep following the advice from our Chief Health Officers…
Download April Newsletter Hi Everyone, It is a delight to be landing in your inbox this month. We hope you are all doing well during this time of COVID. All of our team are still supporting communities and NDIS participants during this time either via virtual means or face to face with increased protection and…
Art of Participatory Community Building The Art of Participatory Community Building blends Asset Based Community-led Development (ABCD) and Art of Hosting (Participatory Leadership) to provide participatory; patterns, practices, processes, and principles to give you the tools to co-create projects and initiatives. How do we co-create sustainable change that is mutually beneficial? How do we discover…
Person Centered Community Driven Practices The Jeder Institute is a ground-breaking, dynamic organisation who brings people together to realise their full potential and build on their existing networks and community strengths! We believe that everyone has abilities and everyone has something to contribute to their communities because there is no one we don’t need! Jeder…
Asset Based Community DevelopmentAsset Based Community-led Development Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a globally adopted approach that recognises and builds on the strengths, gifts, talents and resources of individuals and communities to create strong, inclusive and sustainable communities. “When people discover what they have, they find power. When people join together in new connections…
Drumbeat DRUMBEAT workshops can enhance your next team building and development day as it engages people quickly through music, provides a sense of connectedness with self and others and is physical, non-competitive and fun!! Throughout the sessions, individuals become a stronger team and the team becomes a vibrant community. Workshops run from between 1 and…
