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4 places that are experimenting with new practices around community-building and community-engaged journalism
Friday February 12, 2016
It's exciting to see fresh practices and intentions around what it means to share stories as a community rising up in several places.
Below, we list four emerging initiatives, all representing a step into this ambiguous space that might best be called community-building and community-engaged journalism.
Community News Commons a path to creating more compassionate responses to our complex world: Noah Erenberg
Monday February 8, 2016
The broader community is at a crossroads of change; change in how we communicate, how we tell stories, how we gather, and most of all, how we include everyone in our community in this effort. So what’s a promising response to this crossroads?
‘Breath is as important to making the world a better place as a sophisticated strategy or the latest social technology,’ says Al Etmanski
Thursday February 4, 2016
If we’re not careful while doing the important work of creating the conditions for social change, we can find our hearts closing rather than opening. So what’s the antidote?
“They told us it made them stronger:” documentary producer The Gazette Company CEO and president Chuck Peters
Wednesday February 3, 2016
A just-released video documentary of the transformation of a once-failing U.K. primary school offers hope not only for our education communities, but also for the way we create the story of any community we care about.
Circles offer a relationship-based, community-driven response to poverty
Wednesday January 27, 2016
David Cooper is feeling renewed hope after seeing his fellow residents of Ashland, Virginia step up to support a unique poverty-reduction effort.
Event creates space for people in the room to design new possibilities based on what they can do and existing community assets
Monday January 18, 2016
PETERBOROUGH - A Jan. 14 jobs and local economy summit hosted by Maryam Monsef, Member of Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha, offered a taste of what could be called deep democracy. People in the room co-discovered existing assets in the community, imagined new possibilities and considered their own level of commitment to bringing something new into being.
MP's town halls are flirting with new ways of inviting citizens into ownership of their future
Wednesday January 13, 2016
PETERBOROUGH - Canadian Federal Member of Parliament Maryam Monsef’s recent community gatherings in her Peterborough-Kawartha riding are modelling new forms of participatory process and citizen leadership. “I see citizens taking ownership of the question,” Maryam said, as over 120 citizens engaged in intimate conversations in circles of three at a January 11 town hall on jobs and the economy.
5 stories of hopeful shifts in journalism, neighbourhoods, politics, a faith community & the economy
Monday January 11, 2016
Last year we were thrilled to illuminate some incredible stories — stories that reveal our preferred future is already, in many ways, in the room.
We are actualizing something by how we’re meeting together: Peter Pula
Friday January 8, 2016
From outliers to renegades, pirates and solitary forest wanderers, a few words cropping up in an international dialogue on Generative Journalism and the New Narrative Arts hosted by Axiom News this week surfaced a shared sense of being on the edge of something — the thrilling but also often lonely and anxiety-ridden edge.
Directly linked to that, there was a pulsing theme of gratitude to have found one another — to have discovered companions or, better yet, fellow pirates, as Jocasta Boone said, for the ongoing adventure into the unknown.
Dialogues moving quickly to what neighbours can do to create the community they desire
Wednesday December 23, 2015
Neighbours in Peterborough, Ont. have been moving from isolation to community connection in a matter of hours. In small intimate groups they have been exploring their anxieties and fears and moving quickly to what they can do to create the neighbourhood and community they desire.
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