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Collaborative Masterclass – Strengthening our sector: how we can harness our community assets
Cormac Russell, Managing Director of Nurture Development, will demonstrate why he believes that the traditional customer segmentation and needs analysis approaches are the way of the past and that assets and strengths are the future.
In this masterclass Cormac Russell will:
• Share the fundamental principles of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) and how they relate to leadership at all levels.
• Share practical approaches to implementation and structural change
• Share his experiences of working across the world using asset-based community development to grow communities in the most challenging of circumstances.
• Give you the opportunity to work through some of the challenges you are currently facing, apply what you have heard to your context, and keep with your current strategies for Community Renewal.
Aimed at:
- All senior leaders, and may be of particular interest to:
- Directors with responsibility for regeneration and development.
- Leaders and Ward Councillors.
- Senior officers with interest in community development.
- Senior public health professionals.
- Those from the voluntary and community sectors.
- Those with portfolios in Corporate Social Responsibility and Local Economic Development
Session Overview:
1. Introductions2. The Dilemmas faced in putting Communities First (facilitated by Cormac Russell)3. Keynote: Cormac Russell4. Show Don’t Tell, getting this Way of Working and Being in the Ground Water: Facilitated Discussion.
Who is Cormac Russell?
Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago.
Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has trained communities, agencies, NGOs and governments in ABCD and other community-based approaches in Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe and North America.
His most recent books are The Connected Community- Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Coauthor John McKnight); Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022, and Rekindling Democracy – A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space; Cascade Books, 2020.