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How to use this Program
This program has all the sessions in chronological order from the Opening Plenary to the Closing Plenary. Use this program to decide which sessions to join. You can also join sessions directly by clicking the link in each session description.
Registration
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Session Themes
Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Disrupting community development
Session Types
INSPIRE – through storytelling with Q&A
INNOVATE – sharing a practical example of an innovative and applied approach.
INITIATE – large scale conversations to support the emergence of social innovation and transformation.
Time zones
On the last page is a time zone chart to help you find out which time zone you are in!
The Sessions
Session 1
Orange Room
Opening Plenary
John McKnight, Allison Lourash, Deb Wisniewski and Friends
1 hour
English
Tue 21st
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2pm 4pm 5pm 10pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
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12am 2:30am 4am 5am 7am 9am
Opening Karakia – New Zealand Māori Blessing by Corrina McGregor
Essential Elements of ABCD: learn from John McKnight, co-founder of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute on the components of ABCD, including the seven functions of a community and the role relationships play. John’s information will be accompanied by stories from Deb Wisniewski and Allison Lourash, Stewards from the Asset-Based Community Development Institute.
https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/publications/publications-by-topic/Documents/4_Essential_Elements_of_ABCD_Process.pdf
Session 2
Orange Room
Evaluation for Grassroots Projects: how to measure your project’s impact and why it matters
Jennifer DeCoste, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2 hours
English
Tue 21st
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3pm 5pm 6pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
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12am 1am 3:30am 5am 6am 8am 10am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis.
Inspire Session
Presenting the story of a grassroots, barter-based folk school movement growing in North America, we will reveal the ways we have been “failing forward” – finding ways to learn about and implement an evaluation approach that suits a community/volunteer led initiative. In the last 18 months we have skilled up, engaged coaches and shaped out an approach to evaluation that speaks the language of community work. We will present this scope of work and share our experience for the benefit of those on the same learning journey.
Session 3
Green Room
Rural Communities: We Are It! (Revisited)
Deb Wisniewski and Wendy McCaig, United States and Heather Keam, Canada
2 hours
English
Tue 21st
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3pm 5pm 6pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
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12am 1am 3:30am 5am 6am 8am 10am
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Initiate Session
At last year’s UnConference, a mighty group of people met to talk about how rural communities can activate and build on local assets. Join us this year as we hear what’s happened in a year and talk about how we can continue to move forward together. All are welcome, whether you joined the conversation last year or you’re new to this conversation.
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
4pm 6pm 7pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 1am 2am 4:30am 6am 7am 9am 11am
Allison Lourash will host an interactive opportunity to talk about how we talk about ABCD across the globe. You can enter information at any time during the Unconference. This will be collected to be part of the ABCD-Book
Session 4
Blue Room
Social lessons from Transformation
Tim Vogt, Bridget Vogt, Carol Combs and Danyetta Najoli, United States
2 hours
English
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
5pm 7pm 8pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
1am 2am 3am 5:30am 7am 8am 10am 12pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis.
Initiate Session
Starfire, an organization supporting people with disabilities, transformed away from group-based services to individualized services. Hear what deep lessons they learned about entering into partnership with people instead of using them as clients. And how that led to learning about how to heal culture, rethink the role of family, strengthen democracy, and address racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
6pm 8pm 9pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
2am 3am 4am 6:30am 8am 9am 11am 1pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
Discussion and Q&A on how providing a safe space can lead to opportunities for youth voice, empowerment, and hope. Looking at how the lenses of consistency, time, personality, and funding can have various impacts on the outcomes not only for the individual, the staff member but the community as a whole. Each participant will be asked to reflect on their own practice strengths whilst adding to their toolkit for post unconference journeys.
Session C2
Using ABCD in International Development
Coffee Conversation with Chris Dureau
1 hour
English
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
7pm 9pm 10pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3am 4am 5am 7:30am 9am 10am 12pm 2pm
Session 6
Green Room
DigiShakti: Digital Empowerment of Community based Entrepreneurs
Sonia Garcha and Raghini Badhrinarayanan, India
1 hour
English
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
7pm 9pm 10pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3am 4am 5am 7:30am 9am 10am 12pm 2pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis.
Innovate Session
Overcoming the fear of using digital technology as a first step to digital empowerment with a focus on women entrepreneurs. Much of the increase in India’s overall financial inclusion was driven by mobile technology. However, only 44 percent of women in India own phones and less than 2 percent have mobile accounts. So rather than serving as a fast track to financial inclusion for everyone, digital actually widened the divide between men and women. This issue is not unique to India, but problematic across South Asia. COVID-19 pandemic brought a paradigm shift in the customer behaviour with a shift to digital payments and online marketing and to tap into this opportunity we have used a customised framework for Digital Empowerment
Session 7
Orange Room
How do we support best practice for Parents leading Parents peer led programs?
Kylie Murphy, Hobart, Australia
1 hour
English
Tue 21st
PDT CDT EDT
8pm 10pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
4am 5am 6am 8:30am 10am 11am 1pm 3pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis.
Inspire Session
We will investigate evolving best practises to support Parents leading Parent Led workshops; by creating space for conversation, engagement, shared learning, personal and collective assets, risk taking, realism, coaching and our role as a passenger in their journey.
Session 8
Green Room
Born to stand out: seeking knowledge and truth-telling to go on a consciousness-raising journey through hip hop expression
Sarah Williams and guest South Sudanese facilitators, Anyaak, Festo, and Queen P, Melbourne, Australia
1 hour
English
Tue 21st
PDT CDT
9pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 5am 6am 7am 9:30am 11am 12pm 2pm 4pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
Through the theme of ‘Born to Stand Out’; the sub-topics addressed in this presentation are cultural affiliations with African roots, the consciousness-raising journey as it pertains to identity politics whilst exploring key-themes of place based sub-cultures through urban youth hip hop cultures. This knowledge of society as expressed through identity politics has had practical applications in the lands, we now call Australia for African diaspora hip hop artists who seek to carve out space through the notion of being ‘Born to Stand Out’. In this context, ‘consciousness raising’ through hip hop expression involves the juxtaposition of ideas and narratives in order to communicate the message of the movement and to inspire action. Co-facilitators will tell stories of the consciousness-raising journey – from camps, to flash performances and festivals to the Channel 7 protest.
Session 9
Blue Room
“Every Child Counts”: Experiential narrative of growing up with dignity of children in crisis from vulnerable and marginalized communities of India
Deepak Tripathi, Mumbai, India
1 hour
English and Hindi
Tue 21st
PDT CDT
9pm 11pm
Wed 22nd
EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 5am 6am 7am 9:30am 11am 12pm 2pm 4pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
Every child is blessed to grow up and gets counted in the society. Some makes it, others cannot. In city of Mumbai life runs fast. Some catches up, others stumble. Incidence of HIV in the family, makes the challenge harder, particularly for those at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid. Committed Communities Development Trust (CCDT) facilitates growing up of children of these marginalised and vulnerable communities in a structured framework using the life cycle approach. This session will be real life narratives of such children from Mumbai, who have shown resilience in this difficult time. Their grit has inspired many more, to retain hope and strive for a better life.
Session 10
Orange Room
A movement for neighbourhood connection
Maureen Maher and Irene Opper, Perth, Australia
2 hours
English
Tue 21st
PDT
10pm
Wed 22nd
CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 1am 6am 7am 8am 10:30am 12pm 1pm 3pm 5pm
Theme: Disrupting Community Development
Initiate Session
The need for social connection has never been clearer. Lockdowns have shown us the importance of connecting and building relationships with those that live closest to us. Over the last six years Neighbourhood Connect has successfully experimented with creating micro-communities, by providing tools, skills, and inspiration for people to create neighbour groups. As a result, people are feeling happier, safer, and more supported. This discussion is about how we can take this proven approach and scale it up to a movement that reaches out to neighbourhoods across Australia.
Session 11
Green Room
Community response to excessive alcohol consumption
Rituu B Nanda, India
2 hours
English
Tue 21st
PDT
11pm
Wed 22nd
CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
1am 2am 7am 8am 9am 11:30am 1pm 2pm 4pm 6pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Innovate Session
This session will focus on community-led participator action research on the alcohol abuse in communities We will share with you the experience of a community which realized the effect of excessive alcohol consumption by adults, particularly fathers, on the children of the community and community-led action to address it.
Session 12
Orange Room
ABCD Asia Pacific Network: the original story and beyond
Dee Brooks and Fee Saunders, Melbourne, Australia
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
2am 4am 5am 10am 11am 12pm 2:30pm 4pm 5pm 7pm 9pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
In 2007 the ABCD Asia Pacific Network was founded in Melbourne, Australia at the Bank of IDEAS Power to the People Conference by 8 practitioners and delivered workshops and training across Australia for the next few years. In 2008 and 2010, two conferences were hosted by the Family Action Centre at the University of Newcastle which showcased community-led work, projects, and initiatives from around the Asia Pacific region. With 400 members, the Network slowed down when two of the founding members left the Family Action Centre and the Network became more of a touchstone, or contact site, for people who were seeking information, connections, and resources although, continue to support global initiatives like the online ABCD Unconference and the upcoming ABCD E-Book. This year, in 2021, another 8 practitioners (including one founding member) decided to breathe new life into the Network and relaunched the ABCD Asia Pacific Network 2.0 by becoming incorporated and voting in a Board of Management.
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3am 5am 6am 11am 12pm 1pm 3:30pm 5pm 6pm 8pm 10pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Inspire Session
Senekal hit the headlines after a gruesome murder which nearly set the small town aflame. Instead, the community decided to tackle problems in the area together, rather than waiting for authorities to act. They created the Senekal / Matwabeng Community Forum (SMCF) and got to work – from fixing potholes to clearing dumpsites. The Forum originated from the need to revitalize the town through active community participation. In response to negative publicity and various service, safety and security challenges, the community decided to take ownership of their living environment and create a prosperous future.
Session 14
Blue Room
The ABCD Model in Leeds, fostering a culture of change
Verity O’Hara and Claire Evans, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3am 5am 6am 11am 12pm 1pm 3:30pm 5pm 6pm 8pm 10pm
Theme: Disrupting community development
Innovate Session
Over the last 8-years Leeds City Council were keen to test our role as a local authority working in partnership with the third sector and the assets of local people, involving people in the changes they want to see through a whole community approach and saw ABCD as a transformative shift in how we could develop as a council, instead of doing to and for but with and by the community. In partnership the ABCD Development Officer and ABCD Community builders will talk about the journey of the ABCD in Leeds model and how the council is taking on an asset-based approach, the findings from the ABCD 2-year research study by Leeds Beckett University, with a breakout session to explore how other local authorities might look at asset based ways of working to foster a culture of change.
Session 15
Green Room
Building Classroom Community Through Ritual
Adam Baden-Clay, Antigonish, NS, Canada
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST
5am 7am 8am 1pm 2pm 3pm 5:30pm 7pm 8pm 10pm
Thu 23rd
NZST
12am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
The intention of this workshop is to emphasize for educators at all levels (primary, secondary, tertiary, and continuing education) the importance and advantages of building community within a learning environment, and to introduce one way in which this process can be aided. The workshop will begin with a brief experiential example from this method. We will then outline the other elements, providing evidence and examples to support their inclusion. Participants will be actively engaged throughout the workshop, both through experiential examples of the community-building process and through discussion about how variations of this process may work in their context.
Session C3
ABCD Critiques and Challenges
Coffee Conversation with Howard Rosing
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST
5am 7am 8am 1pm 2pm 3pm 5:30pm 7pm 8pm 10pm
Thu 23rd
NZST
12am
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST
6am 8am 9am 2pm 3pm 4pm 6:30pm 8pm 9pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
NZST
1am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
There is no difference between creative and non-creative people; only people who use creativity and people who don’t. Creativity is innate in all of us; but too many people and organizations unknowingly hinder it from flourishing. Without creativity, it is impossible to develop an innovative organization that can deliver improved services and products and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. The world is in the early stages of a new era of disruptive innovation that promises to transform every workplace and sector of society. Adaptation is the new normal, and creativity is the new literacy. Explore how using creativity strategically can help human beings provide powerful solutions to problems and increase motivation, job satisfaction and engagement. Learn how creativity can be harnessed at a personal and organizational level, and, with the right processes in place, serve as an engine of innovation.
Session 17
Blue Room
A Solution-Focussed Approach to ABCD
Gerry Andrews, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
90 minutes
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST
6am 8am 9am 2pm 3pm 4pm 6:30pm 8pm 9pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
NZST
1am
Theme: Disrupting community development
Innovate Session
Intention or Attention?: How to introduce a Solution-focussed mindset to your approach and your questions when working with people. Like ABCD, Solution-focussed practice is a strength-based approach. It is also about a mindset, a way of seeing the world, not a set of techniques or a method. It serves to give the individual or group agency. Much of ABCD training is focussed on the WHY and the WHAT of ABCD. This session is aimed at providing what doesn’t seem to be available currently – HOW- really understanding HOW to use language and questions to help move people forward in their own thinking and understanding.
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST
6:30am 8:30am 9:30am 2:30pm 3:30pm 4:30pm 7pm 8:30pm 9:30pm 11:30pm
Thu 23rd
NZST
1:30am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
Functional leadership tool that gets to the root of where we get stuck in the change we want to see in our organizations. This tool focuses on the inside change required to support equity and justice through self-reflection, curiosity, and engagement. It is value based and allows clarity to be found through the ability to zoom out, step back, and believe in the possibility that conscious awareness brings. The Leadership Lens was created as a tool for liberation because we are not free until we are all free.
Session 18a
Green Room
Collaboration and Consultation: Disrupt the Script
Dana Kaluzny, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT
8am 10am 11am 4pm 5pm 6pm 8:30pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
AEST NZST
1am 3am
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
To Co-Create is to Innovate. When we bring in the voices and perspectives of everyone involved in our work, we have the opportunity to do things that nobody has done before. The words “collaboration” and “consultation” are often used or misused in conflict with the behaviours to uphold their meaning. Many of us have heard, “let’s connect,” before someone in a position of power over us, tells us what is about to happen to us. Imagine how many great ideas have been silenced because of imbalanced power dynamics. This session is to inspire critical thinking and curiosity to disrupt the script that limits innovation, sustainable action, and social impact.
Session 19
Orange Room
Walk the Community-led Development Talk: A new tool for strengthening practice
Gunjan Veda, Sera Bulbul and Nelly Mecklenberg Canada
2 hours
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT
8am 10am 11am 4pm 5pm 6pm 8:30pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
AEST NZST
1am 3am
Theme: Disrupting community development
Initiate Session
How do we ensure that our programs and processes are truly community-led? Over the last two years, The Movement for Community-led Development has co-created a CLD Assessment Tool based on citizen-centred programming with local CSOs and INGOs from around the world. Join us for an interactive learning session to unpack the values that underpin CLD. Through simulations and breakout groups learn how this tool and the participatory process of using it enables practitioners, funders, and governments to build on and strengthen local assets, relationships, and associations for inclusive, sustainable development.
Session C4
Coffee Conversation with Conrad, Pulu & friends, South Africa
What happens when you introduce the ABCD to Local Government in South Africa’s Gauteng Province? Conrad, Pulu and friends will share their personal and work experience and discoveries in their effort to help government and communities take on an asset based approach to delivery and community action!
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT
8am 10am 11am 4pm 5pm 6pm 8:30pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
AEST NZST
1am 3am
Session 20
Blue Room
Lessons in the Field: New Practitioner’s Perspectives on Introducing ABCD in New Contexts
Jessica Franko and Lesego Moiteela, Antigonish, NS and Maun, Botswana
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB
9am 11am 12pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 9:30pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 2am 4am
Theme: Disrupting community development
Inspire Session
This session will explore what to do (and not to do!) when introducing Asset-Based Community-Driven Development for the first time in a new community, using two new ABCD practitioner’s experiences in the Okavango Delta as a case study and departure point for broader discussion. Hear some reflections, and contribute your own, on lessons, successes, and challenges to implementing ABCD approach and tools in new contexts, or for the first time in a new community.
Session 21
Green Room
“Methods are many, but principles are few. Methods always change. Principles never do.”
Jamie Munday, BC, Canada
2 hours
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST
10am 12pm 1pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 10:30pm
Thu 23rd
ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 1am 3am 5am
Theme: Disrupting community development
Initiate Session
In this session, participants will explore eight foundational principles to Community-Centred Development that have been identified through broad surveys, research, and the experiences of countless development practitioners. Although ABCD is known for its innovative and practical community development process, all its methodologies and practices are built upon these time-honoured foundational principles. We hold methodologies loosely as they ebb and flow over time. Principles on the other hand are the cornerstone that methods depend upon. In order for social innovation and community transformation to occur, a paradigm shift must take place. Participants will discuss this shift in mindset for social change based on these eight principles.
Session 22
Blue Room
Building a Better Mission/Vision Statement Through Storytelling
Jess Wyatt, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
90 minutes
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST
10:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm 6:30pm 7:30pm 8:30pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12:30am 1:30am 3:30am 5:30am
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Innovate Session
Using the power of community stories, participants will be guided through a participatory process to create authentic mission and vision statements for any group or organization. We will leverage the assets/gifts shared in participants’ stories to build statements that represent the group, not individuals.
Session 23
Orange Room
Soul Care for Community Builders: Inner Work that Sustains Outer Work
Wendy McCaig and Cheryl Groce-Wright, Richmond, Virginia, United States
2 hours
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT
12pm 2pm 3pm 8pm 9pm 10pm
Thu 23rd
IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12:30am 2am 3am 5am 7am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
In the summer of 2021, Wendy McCaig and Cheryl Groce-Wright conducted a six-week listening project with 30+ seasoned community builders to discover what helped them survive and/or thrive during this past difficult season. What emerged both inspired and challenged us to think deeper about soul care practices that sustain the crucial work of community building. In this session we will share what we learned, both from the data collected as well as some important sub-texts that emerged. The most common sub-text being, “Something changed and there is no “back to normal.”” What soul care practices we will carry forward both individually and collectively into this next season? Join us and help shape the answer.
Session C5
The future of community-engaged research
Coffee Conversation with Byron White
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT
1pm 3pm 4pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
1:30am 3am 4am 6am 8am
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST
2pm 4pm 5pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 2:30am 4am 5am 7am 9am
Theme: Disrupting Community Development
Innovate Session
This session will build on grassroots ABCD interventions in an area in Leeds in the north England, focusing on the problems of ABCD delivery within institutions. This presentation tackles the question, can true ABCD be delivered by large institutions, and questions whether this current dominant location of the practice is the best path for ABCD.
Session 25
Blue Room
Community Building Perspectives, Principles and Stories from Indigenous Communities
Karri-Lynn Paul, Canada; Corrina McGregor, Aotearoa, New Zealand; Michelle Dunscombe and Kaeleen Hunter, Australia
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT
3:30pm 5:30pm 6:30pm 11:30pm
Thu 23rd
CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12:30am 1:30am 4am 5:30am 6:30am 8:30am 10:30am
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Innovate Session
Join us to share and discuss perspectives, principles, and stories that have emerged from our work with Indigenous peoples and communities. Learn about some common principles that emerged from that work with Indigenous community builders. And hear perspectives on how Indigenous peoples successfully build and engage their communities in our present context.
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT
4pm 6pm 7pm
Thu 23rd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 1am 2am 4:30am 6am 7am 9am 11am
Session C7
“Tell us the Truth! A student’s learning journey into community development!”
Coffee Conversation with Dee Brooks and Steph Bitter
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT
6pm 8pm 9pm
Thu 23rd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
2am 3am 4am 6:30am 8am 9am 11am 1pm
Session 26
Orange Room
ABCD for common interest group development
Quang Trieu, Hanoi, Vietnam
30 minutes
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT
7pm 9pm 10pm
Thu 23rd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3am 4am 5am 7:30am 9am 10am 12pm 2pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
Developing common interest groups (CIGs) have been considered as an approach to promote poor community livelihood in Vietnam for many years. However, it did not reach the sustainable goals as expected. These group acted only if they received supports. Most of the groups dismissed right away since projects supporting them ended. Through the ABCD approach application, new models of CIGs have been used in Cao Bang, a remote and mountainous province in Vietnam, to support ethnic minorities people in poor under the commercial smallholder support project (CSSP), a project funded by IFAD since 2018. After three years, evidence show that the livelihood of these people have improved significantly and sustainably. This suggests directions for livelihood supports of other disadvantaged communities, especially in Vietnam.
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT
7:30pm 9:30pm 10:30pm
Thu 23rd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
3:30am 4:30am 5:30am 8am 9:30am 10:30am 12:30pm 2:30pm
Session 27
Orange Room
Mobilise assets for Start-ups of People with Disability
Vinh Nguyen, Vietnam
1 hour
English and Vietnamese
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT EDT
8pm 10pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
4am 5am 6am 8:30am 10am 11am 1pm 3pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Innovate Session
We would like to share the story of some visually impaired people who are members of the Hanoi Association of the Blind who participated in the ABCD training course introduced by our centre. After the training course, a number of blind people worked together and opened a Viet Massage facility to introduce Vietnamese traditional massage remedies and create jobs and income for people with disabilities.
Session 28
Green Room
The Story of SPiCE-Y – a community-led development youth group
Joanne Harland, Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand
1 hour
English
Wed 22nd
PDT CDT
9pm 11pm
Thu 23rd
EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 5am 6am 7am 9:30am 11am 12pm 2pm 4pm
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Inspire Session
Join members of SPiCE-Y (Sandringham Project in Community Development – Youth) as they share their story from coming together in 2020 to learn about CLD, to exploring strengths and starting on local projects in their own school communities, as well as the wider Sandringham community.
Wed 22nd
PDT
11pm
Thu 23rd
CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
1am 2am 7am 8am 9am 11:30am 1pm 2pm 4pm 6pm
Session 29
Green Room
Mentorship innovation for the youth in Kenya
Charles Esibikhwa, Kenya
1 hour
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 2am 3am 8am 9am 10am 12:30pm 2pm 3pm 5pm 7pm
Theme: Disrupting community development
Innovate Session
The youth mentorship program in Kenya is built from the principles and values of ABCD. The program started as a result of community conversations with one community. The focus was to find solutions for the unemployment issue in Kenya which stands at 60% rate. The conversation was focused on what is available in the community and what we can begin with in having the youth occupied and getting something to do. This process that led to building a youth mentorship program in Kenya has used the ABCD approach of focusing on what is available, focusing on the strengths, building hope for the young people and enhancing participation and inclusivity of everyone’s opinion in building a long term solution for youth employment in Kenya.
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
1am 3am 4am 9am 10am 11am 1:30pm 3pm 4pm 6pm 8pm
Session 30
Green Room
Trauma Informed Community Building
Michelle Dunscombe, Dee Brooks and Fiona Miller, Victoria & Tasmania, Australia
2 hours
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
2am 4am 5am 10am 11am 12pm 2:30pm 4pm 5pm 7pm 9pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Initiate Session
Come and join our Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) session as we explore how Trauma is common within society at large and is particularly prevalent amongst vulnerable populations, First Nations peoples and people with Lived Experience of disability and/or mental health challenges. As community development practitioners, we need to become more aware of trauma informed practice so that we can help and not harm the communities we work with. Learn more about what it means to be trauma informed and about trauma informed community development practice. Together we will learn about the 4 Trauma Informed Community Building (TICB) principles as developed by BRIDGE Housing Corporation and the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University. Let’s come together to reflect on these principles and what they mean for our work as ABCD practitioners and community builders.
Session 31
Orange Room
Peacing ABCD: A Global Mosaic of Practices
Robin Neustaeter and global Coady Graduates, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
2 hours
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
4am 6am 7am 12pm 1pm 2pm 4:30pm 6pm 7pm 9pm 11pm
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Initiate Session
Peacebuilding + ABCD? Absolutely! Starting with the local and ordinary sustainable peacebuilding starts with community relationships, knowledge, stories, experience, skills, and resources. Recognizing the shared values of ABCD and everyday peacebuilding, practitioners around the world are merging the two with fascinating learning, strategies, and results. For over 20 years, graduates of the Coady International Institute have been integrating peacebuilding and community development. Through small and large group discussions, this session features the learning and strategies of Coady graduates from around the world sharing how they are creating their own Asset-based Community Peacebuilding.
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT
7am 9am 10am 3pm 4pm 5pm 7:30pm 9pm 10pm
Fri 24th
AEST NZST
12am 2am
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST ICT/WIB
9am 11am 12pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 9:30pm 11pm
Fri 24th
AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 2am 4am
Theme: Stories of co-creation, gathering and collectivism
Innovate Session
ABCD builds on the gifts (skills, experiences, knowledge, and passions) of local community members, the power of local associations, and the supportive functions of local institutions to build more sustainable communities for the future. As a citizen and a leader in your own right you influence people around you. Empowerment first start with you as an individual first, you influence your family, your family influence their friends, colleagues, and the groups they belong too, they influence the bigger community, the community influence the town, then the province and then the nation. What happens in the nation influences the continent and ultimately the whole wide world. Please help us to build on the current model that we are using in South Africa so that we can ensure a more sustainable asset-based approach.
Session 34
Orange Room
The Offers and Needs Market
Joel Zaslofsky, Edina, Minnesota, USA
2 hours
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT IST
10am 12pm 1pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 10:30pm
Fri 24th
ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 1am 3am 5am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Innovate Session
The Offers and Needs Market (OANM) is a joyful, guided process where groups come together to discover and exchange their passions, knowledge, skills, resources, and needs. Whether for free, barter, or a set rate, people offer and need things like tech help, a place to live, or some extra produce. The OANM unearths and shares the diverse forms of wealth we all have and reminds us that so much of what we need for a good life is already within our grasp. Participants have found work, housing, new friends, a richer self-identity, and even a renewed trust in their community. Each exchange builds a connection, more connections create meaningful relationships, and the collective relationships strengthen communities – and maybe even create new ones.
This session has some Required Preparation
If you want to participate in this event, you must do these steps at least 48 hours before the market begins. If you don’t, showing up will be a waste of your time and drain energy from the event itself.
Read and act on all of the Offers and Needs Market Participant Guide on how to prepare and the overall process.
Add all of your offers and needs in this Google Sheets template. If you prefer using forms to spreadsheets, you can use this form for offers and use this form for needs.
If you use the Google Sheets template above, email Joel jezaslof@gmail.com the link
Session C12
Emerging Plans to support ABCD practitioners who want to expand their professional capabilities as “ABCD Consultants & Trainers”
Coffee Conversation with Terry Bergdall, ABCD Institute Steward
1 hour
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT
12pm 2pm 3pm 8pm 9pm 10pm
Fri 24th
IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12:30am 2am 3am 5am 7am
Session 35
Green Room
Practical Steps for Creating a Structure of Belonging
Gayle Hilleke, Kentucky, United States
2 hours
English
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST EAT
12pm 2pm 3pm 8pm 9pm 10pm
Fri 24th
IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12:30am 2am 3am 5am 7am
Theme: Community strengths, wisdom, and resilience in times of crisis
Initiate Session
This session will give participants the opportunity to learn and practice ways to implement the inspiring ideas from Peter Block’s book, Community: The Structure of Belonging. Participants will learn and practice tools and strategies for building authentic civic commitment, belonging and accountability. The purpose is to learn ways to create a shift in how people come together in public dialogue. It is this shift in social architecture that brings about community transformation…
Thu 23rd
PDT CDT EDT BST/WAT CEST/SAST
2pm 4pm 5pm 10pm 11pm
Fri 24th
EAT IST ICT/WIB AWST/SGT AEST NZST
12am 2:30am 4am 5am 7am 9am
Time Zones
Time zone | Offset | Some places in this zone | |
PDT | Pacific Daylight Time | UTC -07:00 | California, Vancouver |
CDT | Central Daylight Time | UTC -05:00 | Chicago |
EDT | Eastern Daylight Time | UTC -04:00 | New York, Toronto |
BSTWAT | British Standard TimeWest Africa Time | UTC +01:00 | UK, Nigeria |
CESTSAST | Central European Summer TimeSouth Africa Standard Time | UTC +02:00 | France, Sweden, South Africa |
EAT | East Africa Time | UTC +03:00 | Moscow, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia |
IST | India Standard Time | UTC +05:30 | India |
ICTWIB | Indochina TimeWestern Indonesian Time | UTC +07:00 | Vietnam, Jakarta |
AWSTSGT | Australian Western Standard TimeSingapore Time | UTC +08:00 | Western Australia, Singapore |
AEST | Australian Eastern Standard Time | UTC +10:00 | Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Hobart |
NZST | New Zealand Standard Time | UTC +12:00 | New Zealand |