Awakening to healing and becoming whole In community
In 2015, the year the Peterborough Dialogues was born, over 100 gatherings were hosted. I was asked by an astounded colleague in Europe, why would anyone do that? Well, to know and to serve. That’s why.
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Peterborough’s participatory budgeting experiment intersects with citizens group
While a participatory budgeting experiment has sparked openings between the citizens and government of Peterborough, citizenship in the city has been coming alive in exciting ways of late.
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Looking forward, not back after a flood: “Whatever the opportunity, community is the answer.”
In the summer of 2013, the river through High River, Alberta peaked in a devastating flood. But a recent citizens’ summit wasn’t looking back — it was looking to new horizons. What does the community want? How do we build it together?
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Media makers’ circle leans into new tension, finds deeper insights and shifts than anticipated
After months of gathering weekly to dialogue on the art of Generative Journalism and the New Narrative Arts, one member of a small media makers’ circle extended an invitation to disrupt the usual pattern of exchange.
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