Gladstone Regional Council is collaborating with the Jeder Institute and we are excited to invite individuals and organisations from across the Gladstone Region to our FREE WORKSHOP: Introduction to Participatory Community Building.

Collectively, we will work to give you the tools to co-create projects which will leave you with practical skills on how to:

• Build effective partnership strategies
• Increase confidence in hosting group work
• Form powerful enquiries and proposals
• Explore group dynamics and decision-making

The workshop runs for two days – you can attend one day or both.

The focus of this workshop is to, learn how to blend Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) with a range of powerful approaches to community work, and methods to create positive outcomes.

We will share how to move from dialogue to action and how to discover ways to address complex challenges via innovative solutions including the application of:

Asset-Based Community Development

Art of Hosting including Circle and Four Fold Practices

Appreciative Inquiry and Powerful Questions

World Cafe & Open Space Technology

Strengths based approaches

Appreciative Inquiry & SOAR

We welcome all community organisations, clubs, informal groups and individuals who are interested in learning more about strength-based approaches and Asset Based Community Development to help other possibilities emerge in the Gladstone Region. Please share amongst your networks across the region!

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a globally adopted approach that recognises and

builds on the strengths, gifts, talents and resources of individuals and communities to create strong,

inclusive and sustainable communities. ABCD is a powerful approach to community engagement and

development that focuses on abilities and potential, rather than problems and deficits by discovering

the resources that are already present in a community. Discovering community strengths is a

powerful and productive way to address problems and realise a collective vision.

By building relationships and creating the space for opportunities to emerge, community members

become powerful and are more in control of their own decision making.

Asset Based Community Development:

● Focuses on community assets and strengths rather than problems and needs

● ABCD is place based, locally led by community members

● Identifies and mobilises community and individual assets, skills, and passions

● Is built on community leadership

● Builds relationships

A two-day Asset Based Community Development Workshop facilitated by the Jeder Institute will be held in May.

This workshop will launch the Strong Steps Capacity Building program of work.

Friday 6^th May – 9am to 4pm

Saturday 7^th May – 10am to 3pm

Lunch and light refreshments provided

Maxine Brushe Community Meeting Place, Philip Street Communities and Families Precinct

The Jeder Institute supports authentic social change through increased community engagement and

participation. Their aim is to engage, inspire and activate your organisation &/or community to produce the following outcomes:

• Skills and tools to support a connected community

• Community members who are empowered by strengthened relationships

• A shift in organisational and community mindset to one of positive discovery

Their underpinning philosophy is based on the belief that everybody has skills and abilities and, that there is no one we don’t need, to fulfil the potential in all of us.