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Amy Moritz

Amy Moritz
Amy is the Director of the Center for Transforming Communities.

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CCI 2016 Reflections: Everything We Do Is Built Upon Something Else

Posted by Amy Moritz on October 12, 2016

Center for Transforming Communities (CTC) is dedicated to the holistic transformation of communities in and around Memphis, Tennessee. Using the principles of Communities of Shalom, we strive to engage, equip, and mobilize others to seek shalom in their neighbourhoods and communities.

The first workshop that I attended this week at Tamarack Institute’s 2016 Community Change Institute demonstrated a simple tool for working with multiple stakeholders in a collaborative way.  

The first step in the process, Liz Weaver explained, is to have the stakeholders reflect on their history.  What has happened in the past?  What is the story you share?  Liz went on to explain that the reason for the first step is because everything we do is built upon something else.  

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