How can you foster and maintain the spirit of reciprocity and giving more than you take in your community? So here's the thing: community groups involve people giving. There's stuff people get out of being part of them, but they only tend to occur because some people give generously. It works best when *everyone* gives generously with that they have, as there's always something people can give and the spirit it fosters is vital. When it breaks down, there's a sense of freeloading, people just looking after their own interests or people not contributing back to the ideals of the club or community. Various groups try to address this to greater or lesser degrees in different ways. Some formally, some with informal culture. Who does this well? What communities solve this for themselves well. (My head is currently in grassroots sports, but there's loads of different types of community with a similar challenge.) Jono Bacon Sean Longhurst Emily Pitts Cristiano Betta @c
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Building a community is a selfless endeavor. Connection cannot be cultivated when there's an expectation of reward -- people aren't just pawns in the game of life. Giving freely, providing support and fellowship to like-minded individuals, and leading with empathy builds genuine connection. The reward is the relationship. Anything you receive in return is just a bonus. #CommunityBuilding
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Community Development @ Proud 2 Play | Vice President @ Queer Sporting Alliance | Special Projects & Activations Manager @ Racing Pride | Founder of Australian LGBT Ice Hockey
It was great to chat with Seven Network news about the latest developments in the AFL - Australian Football League. It's great to see the AFL take a stronger stance towards players at the highest level of the sport and back it up with a commitment to greater education opportunities (shout out to the work Pride in Sport Australia has done with the AFL). Although the level of dedication to this increased education remains to be seen, it's a solid step in the right direction. There has been increased pressure on the AFL in recent years to do a major gesture such as a pride round - this is only part of the bigger picture. Pride Rounds and Games in my personal opinion, should be rewards for work that has been undertaken in the inclusion space. We need the AFL to continue taking a stance against all discrimination and to use it's influence to empower not only top tier clubs, but to empower community level and junior football inclusion initiatives all year round - not just in single events. We need education for boards, committees, players, coaches, volunteers. We need to provide people with the confidence and know how to back strong inclusion policies. From there, we need pride rounds and pride games to show our community that they are not only welcomed, but celebrated and supported. It's all part of a big puzzle, and although the AFL has lagged behind, it's great to see them making more of an effort to put the pieces together. I'd love to see the impact the AFL would have on Australian sport as a whole if it threw all it's influence and power behind tackling LGBTIQ+ discrimination. (This wasn't intended to be an advertisement - but if you're a club, AFL or otherwise, in Australia who wants to make change for LGBTIQ+ people, check out our Proud 2 Play Rainbow Ready Clubs program here: https://lnkd.in/e3zkMed5 It's an industry leading framework aimed at supplying community level clubs with education, policy advice and the development of a strategy and action plan that embeds inclusion at all levels of your club.)
Our Community Development Officer, Kade Matthews, will be chatting to Channel 7 news tonight at 6PM about the impact homophobia can have in sport in light of the recent suspension of Wil Powell by the AFL. At Proud 2 Play, we believe strong leadership, coupled with education and policy, is the only way to create a culture of respect for players of all identities. The action taken by the AFL shows that homophobic language will not be tolerated at the highest level of the sport - but further work must be done to build a culture of respect at all levels of the sport through education and policy development.
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Experience Matters … I checked a bucket list item last week by playing golf at St Andrew’s in Scotland with my oldest son Owen. We also spent another 10 days roaming the UK with just a car and googling daily to decide what to do and where to go tomorrow. It’s easy to get immersed in the work that we do, and to be focused on winning a deal, or creating the next solution, but times like this remind me of what life is all about. It’s the experiences that our work enables that matter the most. The experiences we can have with the people we love, the experiences we can have with friends and colleagues, and the things we can give back to society as a whole. Ultimately it’s why we get up everyday and play the game. It’s really not just about winning, but instead, success at work can enable the experiences that matter the most to each of us. Finally, the last thing that my son and I will do at the end of this trip is to stop and deliberately talk about our gratitude and about how fortunate we are. We will both agree to individual acts of giving back to the community and we will also share those experiences with each other over the next few weeks. 🙏🤩
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"Although marked by a profound sense of loss, it nonetheless feels appropriate that this issue of the journal contains a review of what sadly proved to be Patsy Healey’s final book." In his review of Caring for Place: Community Development in Rural England, Stephen Connelly writes: "Healey had twin purposes for the book: to present a way of analysing 'the complexity of micro-social dynamics' (p. xii) of governance, drawing on a wide range of scholarship but always underpinned by her own social institutionalist perspective, and through this to support those searching for 'ways to contribute to the future' (p. xii). As ever, there is a strong normative element in her work: the analysis is to serve the purpose of furthering progressive governance through the positive power of self-organising communities. She does this through showcasing the achievements and struggles of real people, in an extended single case study which (like the best of such studies) sets out both the micro-detail and how this links to macro-structures and processes. Despite the rather misleading subtitle, this is not 'community development' in its usual sense of a familiar set of practices, but a book about the development of a community, and an honest evaluation of its achievements." Check out Connelly's full review of Patsy Healey's final book, available here: https://lnkd.in/dR5jZxtx
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Here's the first blog in a series about building community in schools during polarizing times. Thank you to everyone involved for their efforts! https://lnkd.in/gYx4HSVc
