Learning, Practice and Change in the World Community Development and a New World Order

Threats & Opportunities “Global” financial crisis UK’s austerity measures Shift from rights to responsibilities Big Society Occupy Where is Community Development in all of this?

Our Unique Contribution Analysis ◦The current system is oppressive ◦People as subjects not objects ◦People as solutions not just problems ◦Structures not just individuals Practice ◦Doing with not doing to ◦Process & product both important Values ◦Committed to Social Justice

Individual Starting with lived experience Re-seeing the world Discovery of personal power Belief in the possibility of change Vision of a different world

Group Experiments in a new way of being ◦Being heard ◦Creating new knowledge, new possibilities ◦Stronger together than alone Collectivising individual issues Developing generative themes Planning, taking action and reflecting

Power Organisations Building people power Making demands Developing tactics Having victories

Networks/New World Order Based on shared values and commitment to global social justice Developing a different common sense