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Growing Community the ABCD way!

Growing Community the ABCD way!. Revd Al Barrett (Hodge Hill, Birmingham) @ hodgehillvicar thisestate.blogspot.com. STARTING WITH THE ‘ISSUES’...?. Talk to each other! What are the ‘issues’ in your neighbourhood?. The ‘ASSETS’ of a neighbourhood.

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Growing Community the ABCD way!

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  1. Growing Communitythe ABCD way! Revd Al Barrett (Hodge Hill, Birmingham) @hodgehillvicar thisestate.blogspot.com

  2. STARTING WITH THE ‘ISSUES’...? • Talk to each other! • What are the ‘issues’ in your neighbourhood?

  3. The ‘ASSETS’ of a neighbourhood The skills, knowledge & passions of local RESIDENTS The power of local ASSOCIATIONS The resources of public, private and non-profit INSTITUTIONS The physical and economic resources of local PLACES The STORIESof people’s lives and of their evolving community

  4. The ‘ASSETS’ of a neighbourhood • The skills, knowledge & passions of local RESIDENTS • The power of local ASSOCIATIONS • The resources of public, private and non-profit INSTITUTIONS • The physical and economic resources of local PLACES • The STORIESof people’s lives and of their evolving community • What are the ‘assets’ in your neighbourhood? • Reflecting back... did anything feel different?

  5. A Story • “I’m not going to tell you anythingyou don’t already know” • “You can’t know what you needuntil you know what you already have” • We need to talk to each other!

  6. ABCD & the alternatives... • ABCD • Starts with ‘assets’ • People are active agents for change • Builds community ‘from the inside, out’ • Focuses on relationship-building & collaboration, drawing on strengths, building communal resilience • Journey is as important as destination – discovering and learning together Needs-based approaches • Start with ‘problems’ • People are ‘victims’, ‘recipients’, ‘clients’ • Look outwards to find solutions; funded according to level of need / deprivation • Labels people according to need; ‘professionalised’ solutions extract people from community • Focused on targets, end results / outcomes

  7. 12 domains of people powered change www.nurturedevelopment.org

  8. ‘COMMUNITY’ & ‘SYSTEMS’ • What can we do with local people power? • What can we do with help from outside agencies? • What do we need outside agencies to do? • What would enable ‘Austin’ to grow old here?

  9. ‘Our flourishing neighbourhood...’

  10. in the love of God • with all our neighbours • across Hodge Hill

  11. Women’s Group

  12. Open Door Open Door together turning ‘I need...’ into ‘I can...’

  13. TimeBanking

  14. COMMUNITY LUNCH

  15. ABCD step-by-step • Stop, look, listen! • Discover the assets! • Find the ‘connectors’ • Uncover the associations / networks • Unearth the gifts! – HEART, HEAD, HANDS... • Connect people & passions • Grow associations • Appreciate what’s great... and unlock what might be possible... • What can we do with local people power? • What can we do with help from outside agencies? • What do we need outside agencies to do? • Money – to ‘match’ • Celebrate!

  16. Uncovering the ‘assets’ / gifts • What could we start here today?!

  17. ‘Spiritual Practices’of community-building • Patient ‘presencing’ • Rule of St Benedict • ‘Stability’ • ‘Conversion’ • ‘Obedience’ • ‘Hearing to speech’ • Radical renouncing (kenosis)

  18. Providing • Possessing • Performing John V Taylor, ‘The Christlike God’ (1992)

  19. ‘Spiritual Practices’of community-building • Patient ‘presencing’ • ‘Hearing to speech’ • Radical renouncing (kenosis) • Vulnerable gratitude

  20. ‘Spiritual Practices’of community-building • Patient ‘presencing’ • ‘Hearing to speech’ • Radical renouncing (kenosis) • Vulnerable gratitude • Limitless celebration • Expansive friendship • Painstaking reconciliation • Enacting hope • Building ‘home’ together

  21. “If you have come here to help us,you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with ours,then let us work together.” (Native Australian activist group, c.1970) • ‘Theological’ reflections...?

  22. Stories... and questions...

  23. How might we connect from here? • ABCD toolkit (work in progress!) • www.cuf.org.uk/ABCD • A network of Christian ABCD practitioners • www.facebook.com/groups/ABCDfaith/ • Contact me: • hodgehillvicar@hotmail.co.uk / @hodgehillvicar • thisestate.blogspot.com • Here in Southwell/Nottingham...?

  24. Next steps...? • What kind of training / support might be helpful? • Who’s up for giving it a go?!

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