The Green Transition and the Community & Voluntary Sector.
The Green Transition and the Community & Voluntary Sector. ‘Every home, every community, every workplace and every farm must be mobilised to get involved’ Government of Ireland Climate Action Plan. Hopefully, at this stage, we are sufficiently beyond denial...
Earth Overshoot Day – Emptying the Cupboard
Earth Overshoot Day - Emptying The Cupboard https://www.overshootday.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/ I first came across the concept of Earth Overshoot Day in David Attenborough's book 'A Life on Our Planet'. It is calculated as the date in the calendar on which...
Learning from the pandemic.
Learning from the pandemic. I was facilitating a staff development workshop for a Family Resource Centre a while ago and I asked what had been the impact of the pandemic on the work. The initial response was to highlight the restrictions, the reduced contact with...
Working With Groups – Task & Process
Last year I worked with a diverse range of groups and organisations including; small community and voluntary groups, agency representatives, rural communities, people who use the mental health services and a faith-based organisation. The work included an equally...
COMMUNITY PLANNING – ORGANISED COMMUNITIES MAKE MORE PROGRESS
Some of my work in 2017 involved working with rural communities in developing plans for their areas. This involved preparing a process of community consultations, facilitating discussions on needs, statistical analysis, and developing consensus on priority plans....
Governance and Small Organisations
Small groups matter. Their work is an essential part of the quality of life we enjoy. But, many small, voluntary groups and organisations are struggling as they try to come to grips with governance and charities regulation. In recent training sessions I have...
Conflict Resolution through Mediation
Why Mediation? Conflicts happen. It’s an inevitable part of human interaction, be it in personal relationships, the workplace, business or community. Traditionally, when conflicts are addressed, an adversarial approach is used, be it in a labour/ workplace dispute, a...
We Are Greater Than Our Despair
We Are Greater Than Our Despair - a poem to counter all the negativity, fear, turmoil and confusion in the world at present.