We are excited to be hitting the road with our national tour, this will be the first time since the pandemic we have offered face to face Asset Based Community Development training with open registrations.

Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a powerful approach to community development that focuses on discovering and mobilizing the resources that are already present in a community.

When a group of people discover what they have they join together in new connections and relationship they build power. When people become more productive together, they exercise their power to address problems and realize dreams. Together we are better.

This approach recognizes that people learn best how to build “community partnerships that work” successfully by learning from their own experience, by having clear principles of practice, and by learning from the experience of other community builders.

Connecting people to community and seeing them as a part of a community is vital for having a voice and to create a sense of belonging. 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.

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. The key principles will demonstrate how ABCD ensures an inclusive community process and participants will leave the workshop with practical tools to assist communities to help themselves and others discover and mobilise community strengths.

“Every single person has skills, abilities and gifts”. John McKnight

Through the workshop participants will learn by:

Discussing the principles and philosophy of ABCD
Learning practical strategies to find and engage community assets
Exploring principles of community organising
Exploring how agencies and communities can work together more effectively
Building an ABCD community partnership

Participants will leave with multiple, effective participatory tools, practices and processes such as:

Asset Mapping
Learning Conversations
Needs versus Strengths
Co-Design & Ideas to Action
Angry Hamburger
ABCD Power Ladder

Join us on this journey of discovery as we offer a highly immersive and interactive workshop to introduce you to a range of asset-based community development (ABCD) practices and processes for creating powerful community-led actions and outcomes.

Who's the workshop for?

Anyone who wants to explore the power of collective creativity and collaboration with each other and within their communities:

Community development workers and engagement leaders, policy officers and program managers
Business leaders and social entrepreneurs
Community and not for profit leaders, community organisers, and their teams
Next generation leaders and other young activists
NDIS directors, team leaders, planners

What to expect

The days will be highly immersive and participatory including a lunch break and smaller breaks across the day
A team of 2-3 trainers from the training team will be at each event
Wear comfy clothes; this is active and immersive learning in action
Each session will be emergent and subject to change based on participant's feedback

Be prepared to share stories, get to learn from each other and have loads of fun!

We are partnering with KENG (Kingstone East Neighbourhood group) who are hosting us, with thanks to Thrive Logan for facilitating conversations.

Please reach out if finances are an issue. If you are passionate about joining, we want you there!

Your hosts for this event are:

Dee Brooks - Through her down-to-earth style, Dee Brooks brings people together in dynamic ways to realise and engage the full potential of their networks and communities. Dee is an Intentional Nomad who has traveled and worked in over 20 countries. Based on two decades of grassroots work, her work has inspired people at hundreds of events and workshops worldwide where she offers community engagement and development training and also provides professional co-design, facilitation and keynote addresses for conferences, forums and events.

Lee Griffiths - I have a passion for community and always have, this is why I do the work I do, facilitating ABDC training, workshops and strategic planning. I have spent the last 14 years working in local government and the not for profit sector creating the conditions for government and organisations to walk along side community to strengthen outcomes across Australia and the UK.

From my grassroots roots voluntary work to my previous leadership positions, the golden thread has always build on recognising the strengths, assets and opportunities communities already have to bring about the change they want.