September 2022 CD Practitioner Gathering Harvest

By Amanda Palmer

On Wednesday, September 14th we convened as community development practitioners for our monthly peer-based conversations.

You can access the full notes here, or flip through the note taking slides below!

We had three breakout rooms have conversations, and the highlights below were gathered from the group debrief.

Building Community Leadership Skills

  • Community leadership is organic, and innate in us all, but requires a sense of safety and comfort for people to be able to demonstrate their leadership

  • Support community, value community - their voice, their willingness to do things

How are we creating communities of care?

  • Hold space for communities to validate their experience

  • Ensure equitable access, allow people to opt in and out of many options

  • Celebrate and capture successes, it helps to get and maintain momentum

Tackling Social Isolation Amidst COVID-19 Risks: risks, strategies, lessons learned so far?

  • Mental health impacts are really being felt, especially among young kids

  • Meet people where they are at

Shout out to Marie for the wonderful multicultural event in Vulcan last month that she shared with us in celebration! We’re excited to learn how those great connections and conversations evolve and deepen community there!

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