Cultivating Inclusion Inclusively, Wellbeing in Communities
Unintended Harms
Entire Neighborhoods, Entire Communities, that have been defined as deficient start to internalize that narrative and start to believe that the only way that anything is going to improve is by having the right person, right program, right money comes in from the outside to rescue them.
Active participation retreats in the face of technocracy, professionalism, and expertise. (meet people how they want to be met)
Defines people not by what they can contribute but by their deficiencies
The money that is intended to go to those that need help is actually going to an outside person who is being paid to provide an outside service.
How does change happen from your point of view?
Building Blocks that make things happen when it's sustainable, endurable, and it respects the assets that the community already has
The skills of local residents
The Power of local social networks
The resources of public, private, and non-profit institutions
The physical and economic resources of local places
The stories of our shared lives
Inclusive Community
Define Ourselves as part of the community as opposed to a client or a patient (Cormac believes that this takes some or all of the soul from the person in the name of helping them)
Lifting the labels that obscure people's abilities
There is nobody whose gifts are not needed (Frank, community builder)
The community creates things themselves, they own them in a way in which they could ever own if others created it for them.
From what is wrong, to what is strong in our communities
Ask what it is that they care enough about to act upon it
Russel
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting you time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, let us work together." -Lilla Watson
We are the People we have been Waiting for
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Emotional Intelligence
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Empathy
Social Skill: Putting all of these into a skilled relationship
Looks different to different people
Wellbeing Indicators
The Wellbeing Project, Wellbeing Indicators
Economic Opportunity-the degree to which people can improve their financial lot in life, key to a community's positive feelings about itself.
Health-measurements of how healthy people feel and the resources available to them to help them manage and improve their physical health
Learning-measurement of classical education like schools and colleges, life long learning in and out of classrooms
Place and Planet-how people feel about what's around them, including open spaces, buildings, and even the social environment
Community-how people involve themselves in their community, measures of the strength of local networks, how involved residents feel in their city and its government, how much influence they feel over the decisions their elected and appointed leaders make
Outlook-how satisfied people feel about their lives
Urban Happiness
The city should strive to maximize joy and minimize hardship
It should lead us toward health rather than sickness
It should offer us real freedom to live, move, and build our lives as we wish
It should build resilience against economic or environmental shocks
It should be fair in the way it apportions space, services, mobility, joys, hardships, and costs
Most of all, it should enable us to build and strengthen the bonds between friends, families, and strangers that give life meaning, bonds that represent the city's greatest achievement and opportunity
The city that acknowledges and celebrates our common fate, that opens doors to empathy and cooperation, will help us tackle the great challenges of this century.
Happy City