Communities change when people work together, but working together means pulling people out of their comfort zones. That is never easy. Good community animators know that their approach has to be carefully calibrated to their context. Strategies that are helpful in one circumstance may not work in another. That is one of the main insights I took away from the Harwood Institute Public Innovators Lab I attended last year.
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Last week, Tamarack’s Liz Weaver and Paul Born hosted a webinar on Community Change: The Art of Disruption as part of a Community Change Webinar Series. In this conversation Liz and Paul discussed some emerging ideas and strategies that are disrupting how some communities today are responding to the complex issues that they face.
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The Community Change Institute is designed to be a truly transformational learning experience. Each year this gathering draws people together like a magnet from across the continent and around the world. Inspired people, just like you, will gather in Toronto - We welcome you to join us during this exciting week!
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This article originally appeared in the Canadian Mennonite Journal on June 6, 2016, by Paul Born
I was a young child when my family and I came to Canada as Mennonite refugees from the Ukraine. We were displaced people seeking to create a new life for ourselves.
My personal experience of poverty has shaped my life’s work. It’s why I founded Tamarack, a non-profit organization that helps people collaborate to tackle the toughest social problems, including poverty. It’s why my long-held, deep hope is to end poverty in Canada.
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Seven years ago I mentioned at the dinner table one night that I was interested in drawing meetings. It was a casual remark that my husband took it seriously. He is a committed creative who was helping me navigate a new career in community development after 15 years as FTA (full time artist). After a quick search he found David Sibbet’s Visual Meetings book and surprised me with a gift. This was the beginning of my love affair with sketching meetings.
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