My Route to Maybe
Other CCI Telelearnings
Summary:Two telelearning sessions that were important to me were Kathleen Kevany's session on Power & Community Collaborations; and the second session in the Framing Poverty & Poverty reduction series, Models & Their Implications
There are two themes to this posting: Power and models for framing poverty.
I. Power
I found Kathleen's session very interesting. It took place right after I had a heated discussion over programming in a rural community with another service provider, and it gave me a new perspective on power, its use/misuse, and conflict resolution.
Our work with rural British Columbia has been fascinating from a power perspective. We came into a number of communities to provide services after being awarded a [...]Sept 20/07: CCI: The First year
Summary:Collaboration: elegantly messy
When my friend Paul Born talked to me about the concept of a Communities Collaborating Institute in 2006, I was intrigued. I was also a little skeptical. How is it possible to make this relevant to a diverse group? Of course, I had to find out, and my Board of Directors was kind enough to fund part of this expedition (my thanks to CCI for the Institute fees).
Naturally, the Institute was a great success. What remained was figuring out how to avoid “Conference syndrome”, the intellectual [...]September 16/07: Collaboration and the 2010 Olympics Part 2
Summary:Collaboration in part, but results regardless.
VANOC has specifically begun promoting development of a disability-oriented collaboration for persons with disabilities. Their motive for doing so is to have a “one window” service for themselves in hiring persons with disabilities and purchasing goods and services from the same target group. This is, of course, a laudable goal. The question for me has been whether or not it is a collaborative one.
Meetings at VANOC’s offices led to the forming of a service delivery cooperative that is open [...]May 28/07: An International Lesson in Collaboration
Summary:Peru's Quechua Indians have a cultural perspective we can learn from.
Over the past year I have spent a number of pleasant hours engaged in Skype and e-mail conversations with a student of mine who is currently working with the Quechua Indians in the Peruvian Andes.
He has been working to develop approaches to social enterprise with this cultural group in the face of tremendous pressure from the spanish-speaking majority. The initial modest beginnings for this group have involved development of training around servant-based leadership principles. This approach [...]July 14/07: Collaboration, Sustainability and SENI
Summary:How practical is collaborative work on a daily basis?
