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Download Workbook Download Template NDIS Pre-planning Welcome to the NDIS Pre-Planning workshop. You will be participating in a 2 day workshops that will take you through a series of ideas and questions to think about, through which you will develop a Person Centred Plan for your son / daughter with a disability ready to…
By Bernadette Melder Renato is an NDIA participant who suffers from 5 different types of seizures and a mild…
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Download Lessons from a Pandemic Author: Dee Brooks & Michelle Dunscombe Publish Date: 11th September 2020 It’s a brave, new…
Art of Participatory Community Building – East Sussex 2019 Date: 9th – 21st June 2019 Location: East Sussex Core Team:…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Albany 2019 Date: 22nd – 24th May 2019 Location: Albany, NSW Core Team: Dee…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Launceston 2019 Date: 14th – 16th May 2019 Location: Newstead, Launceston, TAS Core Team:…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Moreland 2019 Date: 10th – 12th April 2019 Location: Oxygen Youth Services, Coburg, VIC…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Woolloomooloo 2019 Date: 29th – 31st January 2019 Location: Woolloomooloo, NSW Core Team: Dee…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Charters Towers 2018 Date: 2nd – 4th October 2018 Location: Charters Towers, Townsville, QLD…
Art of Participatory Community Building – Bristol 2018 Date: 10th – 12th July 2018 Location: Bristol Core Team: Terry Black…
Asset-Based Community-Driven Development (ABCD) Immersion Workshop Date: 27th – 29th November 2017 Location: SydWest Multicultural Services, Blacktown, NSW Hosted by:…
Download An influential overview By Dee Brooks & Judi Geggie The following paper has been written from the perspective of…
Written by Michelle Dunscombe Whilst agencies and governments are keen to connect with the community post a disaster for a…
Healthy Relationships A Jeder Institute Project Author: Aleks Jovanovic – Behaviour Support Practitioner Due Date: February 2020 Publish Date: February…
The paradox of bottom up community development and top down consultancy Written by Dee Brooks The Jeder Institute is a…
Dee Brooks, Agitator, Blender and Chief Hugger of the Jeder Institute, provides a brief overview of Asset Mapping to truly…
Written by Fiona Miller Placemaking is a multi-layered approach to the planning, design and organisation of public spaces. Placemaking…
Download Date: 14th – 15th May 2020 Location:Online Via Zoom Who: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe & Fiona Miller All…
Art of Participatory Community Building The Art of Participatory Community Building blends Asset Based Community-led Development (ABCD) and Art of…
Person Centered Community Driven Practices The Jeder Institute is a ground-breaking, dynamic organisation who brings people together to realise their…
Deadly ABCDAsset Based Community-led Development Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a globally adopted approach that recognises and builds on…
Drumbeat DRUMBEAT workshops can enhance your next team building and development day as it engages people quickly through music, provides…
Flow Game The Flow Game is a process designed as a board game that creates a space for individual and…
Graphic Recording Graphic recording and facilitation involves capturing people’s ideas and expressions—in words, images and color—as they are being spoken…
Independent Planning for the NDIS Building Capacity with people experiencing disability and their families to Lead self directive lives, Demonstrate…
Building Capacity with Individuals and Families Building Capacity with people experiencing disability and their families to Lead self directive lives,…
Art of Hosting and HarvestingConversations that Matter The Art of Hosting is a highly effective way of harnessing the collective…
Collaborative LeadershipNurturing Leaders in an Emerging Landscape The viability and resiliency of a self-organizing system comes from its great capacity…
Person Centred Lifestyle Planning This workshop is beneficial for people that work with people, e.g. children, youth, disability, ageing and…
Visions & Values to Action The Jeder Institute is a ground-breaking, dynamic organisation who brings people together to realise their…
Deadly ABCDAsset Based Community-led Development Program participants of Deadly ABCD will learn about community building and participation, self-efficacy to act,…
A large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development.
A community of members from around the world, where we can explore together how to apply the principles and practices…
Providing in-service and training in the areas of inclusive education, employment equity, conflict resolution, and other disability rights issues.
An engaging online video library of interviews with The Leading Voices in Community Living and Disability Rights.
A small, member-based organisation which supports people, families and service providers to understand, design and develop supports and services.
A community that welcomes people with disabilities as valued and contributing members of society.
The industry’s quickest, easiest-to-use, and most effective software for measuring and improving public sector performance and impact.
EQuality Training is an innovative, vibrant company that designs and delivers tailored training in diversity, inclusion and leadership.
Campfire Co-op is an expanding group of facilitators, hosts, consultants, guides, practitioners and curious learners in ways of working that…
Building strategic partnerships to increase capacity and innovation supporting leaders, organisations, communities and movements.
Building Conscious, Caring & Competent Supporters of People With Autism & Developmental Disabilities.
The ABCD Asia Pacific network offers support and help with challenges and evaluation.
Written by Michelle Dunscombe The last few months have been challenging for me as the current disastrous bushfires burn across…
Based on reflections of the concept of The Natural and the Open from The Apparatus, by Giorgio Agamben Written by:…
Written by Charlotte Saunders, Behaviour Support Practitioner Due Date: December 2019 Publish Date: December 2019 According to the Human Rights…
Ethan grew up in Sydney’s inner west where he also went to school. He is a young man living with…
A Jeder Institute Project Written by Aleks Jovanovic Due Date: December 2019 Publish Date: December 2019 The music in you…
Download Building Community Capacity – Participatory Community Building Guidebook Contributors: Purpose Partners (Queensland), Denise Bijoux from Catalyse (New Zealand), Jax Wechsler from Sticky Design Studio and Social Design Sydney. Conscious Co-Design The content in this Guidebook is to offer a place for conscious decision making to be practically applied when choosing or using particular community…
“A comparison study was undertaken between the asset-based community-led development (ABCD) approaches versus the traditional needs-based approach to community development…
how Asset-based Community-led Development (ABCD) supports & strengthens Art of Hosting (AoH) practices in community engagement & development work. By…
Conscious Co-Design: creating safe spaces to explore vulnerability in complexity Written by Fiona Miller Locating yourself within a number of…
Download Date:1st to 4th May 2019 Hosted By: Barbara Chappell from Simply Speaking. Who: Michaela, Jason, Meredith, Dee, Aleks, Lynn,…
Over the years, we have adapted (from others) and developed (our own) practical and emergent ways of discovering assets, both…
“Imagine a meeting of 60 people, where in an hour you would have heard everyone and at the end you…
By Kerry Hartigan I know that not all participants end up being practitioners. I know that not all stewards have…
By Dee Brooks and Kerry Hartigan Art of Hosting, Ballina, NSW, Australia The Art of Coasting provided a place to…
I’ve been an Intentional Nomad for over 3 years now and to date, participatory co-designing of meetings, forums, conferences and…
Download Date: Monday 5th & 7th Nov 2018 Who: Lynn Lennon, Brett Pischke, Yvonne Matsas,Margaret Henville, Jason Emmins, Dee Brooks,…
Download Date: 17th Aug 2018 OUR PURPOSE: Build on how we can consciously connect and co-create our future through delving…
It started with a lone voice in Goa, India. In January 2017, Bernie Dolley from Ikhala Trust, stood up, in…
Download Hosted By: Barbara Chappell from Simply Speaking. Date: Tuesday 30th & Wednesday 31st May 2017 Who: Dee Brooks, Michelle…
Download Date: 13th Nov 2017 Hosted By: Jeder Institute Members. Who: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Michaela Kennedy, Leigh Dunscombe, Rachael…
….about Hosting Community Written by Dee Brooks Mike Green and Henry Moore of the ABCD Institute were onto something, years…
Download Written by Dee Brooks Date: 07th Sep 2017 For many years, IAP2’s Public Participation Spectrum, which explores different levels…
Download Richard Holmes talks to Dee Brooks from the Jeder Institute about her journey into asset based community development. She…
Written by Michelle Dunscombe and Dee Brooks June 2015 saw us pack our bags and head for the UK,…
Local football clubs are great proponents of ABCD and they don’t know it. Ever been a part of a footy…
When you walk into your local Op Shop what do you see? Probably just a range of second hand goods…
Download Date: 30th & 31st May 2017 Hosted By: Barbara Chappell from Simply Speaking. Who: Dee Brooks, Michelle Dunscombe, Michaela…
Written by Facinta Cubis with Max Hard Date: Feb 2017 Carol* weighed up the pros and cons carefully…
— the internal mechanics of effective collective impact Written by Dee Brooks I wrote a blog some months ago…
It is your choice. If you don’t like the LAC or NDIS planner you have been allocated you may request…
Download Date: 30th Oct & 2nd Nov 2016 Hosted By: Hosted by Jane Geltch and Mel Geltch, Purpose Partners Who:…
For those who don’t know the movie “Jerry Maguire”, Jerry is a sports agent who has a client who is…
ABCD & Art of Hosting: productive and powerful together! Written by Dee Brooks There’s a key area of ABCD community building…
It’s easy to say we collaborate but what does effective collaboration look like?
As community facilitators, we are embarking on a journey of multiple ideas, opinions and attitudes that can potentially swing from…
Dee Brooks shares her insights in how ABCD supports community-driven initiatives.
Above all else, when mapping the strengths and assets of a community, make sure you connect, don’t just collect!
My job now, is not as a consultant; it is to enter a community with open heart, open mind and…
Participant-driven gatherings, authentic discussions and real actions! This is what happened during November when a team of Aussies from the…
This is the story that involves many people, over many years, and it tells us of their work and the…
Blending Person Centred Thinking and Asset-based Community Development has been both a natural progression of two powerful strengths focused approaches…
Who cares? A few months ago, I started some conversations (which some people might call ‘work’) with 14 multi-cultural community…
One Tree at a Time Late one Friday afternoon, I was talking on the phone with the Regional Coordinatorofa Government…
Between Chaos and Control “Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something…
Why are the ‘Values of Inclusion’ (developed by Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, John O’Brien and the Scottish Human Services) so…
I recently attended a one day workshop on Collective Impact in Sydney, facilitated by Paul Born of the Tamarack Institute…
When traveling around the country, delivering ABCD workshops, I often hear people say, “I’ve heard great ABCD stories but…