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Peter Bates
@peter-bates
12/21/23 01:58:37AM
5 posts

Does search order matter?


Asset Mapping & Gift Inventories

In the classic 'Getting Connected' booklet about mapping community associations at Logan Square, the local Selzer library contributed 12 associations to the final list of 575 groups, the others being found by alternative methods. I can't work out from the text whether this means that the library only knew about 12 associations, or they knew about lots, of which 12 were found by no other search method, or whether 12 were first spotted in the directory and subsequently mentioned in other places.

At the end, it doesn't really matter where the information came from and how much duplication there was. But it might help us decide where to start, as some early wins will help new respondents feel confident that we have already done good work. 

Does anyone know what Mary O'Connell and John McKnight did back in the 1980s? Does anyone have advice about the best sequence of inquiries? Should we talk to people first and delay consulting directories and online sources until later or do we mix it up and do it all together? Has anyone (apart from me!) run a similar exercise in the age of the internet?

Peter Bates
@peter-bates
11/22/23 08:35:32AM
5 posts

Naming your dragon


Asset Mapping & Gift Inventories

Listening to why community groups turn down the invitation to engage in mapping activities will surely help us construct an authentic welcome. 

Here's a start - https://peterbates.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/How-to-name-your-dragon.pdf

Better ideas welcome!

Peter Bates
@peter-bates
05/22/17 03:54:26AM
5 posts

Working in the Gap: What does it mean to you?


Working in the Gap

And here's my offering. First, simplify the multiple, networked relationships that make up real community to a dyad - one talking to one. Second, simplify the complex process of listening and speaking, explicit and implicit messages to the idea that each has a message to convey. This message might be 'everyone matters' or 'we can't survive without profit'. Now put the messages back into a bigger frame and call them 'culture'. 

This gives us perfect conditions for thinking about what happens when cultures collide and their messages are adopted or rejected, reframed or subverted. This is the world of inculturation. Read about an example where the culture of psychiatric services meets the culture of work - 'Community Bridge Building and Inculturation' at http://thenadd.org/nadd-bulletin/archive/volume-xi/  

Peter Bates
@peter-bates
05/22/17 03:42:13AM
5 posts

Working in the Gap: What does it mean to you?


Working in the Gap

Great discussion. I have one offering and one question, which I will do in separate submissions. Here's the question:

has anyone thought about how gapping works when the institutional partner is a for-profit?

I have been working on how to navigate in an 'ABCD style' when some folks are driven by the profit motive and some folks are suspicious of that. If true dialogue is happening, then the for-profit should be able to show how they have changed as a result of the encounter with community. I'd love to hear some stories of that actually happening! My evolving notes on this issue are available too, if anyone wants to see them.   

Peter Bates
@peter-bates
05/22/17 02:05:18AM
5 posts

air conditioning company doing ABCD in community


ABCD - Getting Started/Challenges

I'm delighted to see you engaged with ABCD. This ties in with my current interest in one specific way. I have been looking at the relationship between community interests and the profit motive. I have found lots of examples of commercial businesses that help community initiatives, but this looks like a one-way street. I have been looking for examples of commercial organisations, such as your a/c company perhaps, that are prepared to engage in true dialogue. In a real encounter, both sides change. So I'd love to know if there are things that you have changed in the way that you do business as a result of what you have heard from community people?  

My own evolving materials on how community interests interact with the profit motive are here, (it will be edited to a more digestible format when I know some more). The work is largely informed by some of the activities of the large pharmaceutical industries, but my focus continues to be on the profit/non-profit interface. 

So if you in the a/c company or others have stories of ABCD leading to real changes in the way that commercial organisations function, I'd be delighted to hear them.