Deb - thank you for your endorsement of the trainers!
Dee - are you referring to training by the Jeder Institute or the ABCD Institute? Jeder's Guidebook is very comprehensive and thank you for offering that to the world!
Hi, Alan! Thanks very much for taking the time to share further information about Sanctuary Point Community Pride. By perusing their Facebook page, it seems they sure are still up and running! Do you happen to know any of the details of their committee? Is it all volunteer, how does decision making work, etc.? I could also reach out to the organization directly to find out.
When you mention "worker" in your final paragraph, was this someone that was part of your consulting firm or a member of the Sanctuary Point community?
Thanks again!
Matt
Hi, Mac! Thank you for sharing this project with me and the forum. Seems you are following through on your suggestion to "document and reflect on projects in useful / sharable ways!"
I see in your story how the CBI training provided tools and the ABCD framework for Mentor Moms. Your sharing of the unfolding of the process demonstrates the value of the training and the ABCD framework.
Thanks so much for taking the time. I know that there are periodic emails that go out about this forum, and hopefully this thread will be featured, as I know many are searching for detailed descriptions of how ABCD processes go!
Hi, Mac! Thank you so much for taking the time to thoughtfully respond to my question, and provide so many other avenues to explore! Question about the training that you took at Xavier - how did the CBI help you facilitate the early-stage organization of your project? How would you/did you articulate the value of that training to yourself, your community, those that supported you in attending the training?
Thanks!
Matt
Hello, All! Matt here from Co-operate WNC: A Regional Mutual Aid Initiative. I am hoping to attend this training at the ABCD Institute in September, along with a couple of colleagues. Has anyone attended this training in the past and what was your experience like?
I am a volunteer for Co-operate WNC and we do not have a travel/training/extramural budget, so we are going to try to crowdfund this from our small but growing network - mutual aid in action! I want to articulate clearly the value of traveling to this training to our broader community in Western North Carolina. For some context about my own experience and why we feel the training is valuable, I have been trained as a facilitator and facilitated meetings in government organizations. We are hoping to support communities in our region using an ABCD approach. All of my work with ABCD so far has been with reading theory and reports from other communities, and thinking through examples. I've been in discussion with one community in our region that has used Participatory Action Research, another method of community engagement/organizing/development.
Any suggestions to articulate the value of the training and any reviews of the training you could provide would be very helpful! Also feel free to message me privately.
Thank you!
Hello, All! Matt here from Co-operate WNC: A Regional Mutual Aid Initiative. What I'm about to post was also posted on the ABCD In Action Facebook group and there is a thread there, attached below. You'll need to open the file in a picture viewer and zoom in.
I'm wondering if anyone with ABCD experience would be willing to talk with me about examples of community members (aside from those community members that are facilitating the ABCD process) taking the lead in projects that have come out of the process. Would be awesome to hear the outcome of those projects / how they are going.
It seems it can be easy for the actions that come out of ABCD to fall back on the facilitators of the ABCD process, especially if they are paid and staff of a community organization, but it seems that lasting change and the success of ABCD comes when groups of community members own the outcomes, see them through (if applicable), and then go through the cycle again.
Some folks over on Facebook seemed interested in talking about examples of this community member led action has taken place. I am in the process of arranging talking with them.
Thank you!
