Asset-Based Community Development
My Notes from the ABCD training workshop, are posted in the GlobalChicagoNotebook.
According to ABCD gurus John McKnight and Henry Moore, Community Building differs subtly from how we usually organize ourselves for production, consumption, service and problem-solving. It focuses on Gifts, Dreams, Skills, Passions of Individuals and the Relationships and Associations that we form to share and develop these essential human attributes.
Like OpenSpaceTech, it invites Caring, Responsibility, and Direct, Effective Action. The practice is one of Identifying Assets and the Connecting them in ways that generate more and more Learning and Contribution.
So, what is your most significant gift? …not a learned skill, but a real gift that you were born with. And how have you been using and sharing it lately?