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GROWING COMMUNITYTHE ABCD WAY!
Revd Al Barrett (Hodge Hill, Birmingham)
@hodgehillvicar
thisestate.blogspot.com
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STARTING WITH THE ‘ISSUES’...? Talk to each other!
What are the ‘issues’ in your neighbourhood?
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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 STORIES of people’s lives and of their evolving community
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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 STORIES of people’s lives and of their
evolving community
What are the ‘assets’ in your neighbourhood? Reflecting back... did anything feel different?
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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!
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ABCD & THE ALTERNATIVES...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
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
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12 DOMAINS OF PEOPLE POWERED CHANGE
www.nurturedevelopment.org
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‘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?
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‘OUR FLOURISHING NEIGHBOURHOOD...’
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• in the love of God• with all our neighbours• across Hodge Hill
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WOMEN’S GROUP
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Open Door
together turning ‘I need...’ into ‘I can...’
OPEN DOOR
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TIMEBANKING
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COMMUNITY LUNCH
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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!
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What could we start here today?!
UNCOVERING THE ‘ASSETS’ / GIFTS
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‘SPIRITUAL PRACTICES’OF COMMUNITY-BUILDING
Patient ‘presencing’ Rule of St Benedict
‘Stability’ ‘Conversion’ ‘Obedience’
‘Hearing to speech’ Radical renouncing (kenosis)
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Providing Possessing Performing
John V Taylor, ‘The Christlike God’ (1992)
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‘SPIRITUAL PRACTICES’OF COMMUNITY-BUILDING
Patient ‘presencing’ ‘Hearing to speech’ Radical renouncing (kenosis) Vulnerable gratitude
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‘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
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“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...?
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STORIES... AND QUESTIONS...
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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:[email protected] / @hodgehillvicarthisestate.blogspot.com
• Here in Southwell/Nottingham...?
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Next steps...?• What kind of training / support might be
helpful?
• Who’s up for giving it a go?!