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Week 9 - Coggle Diagram
Week 9
- There are several models of community organization and community building with common underlying concepts that exist, but a strengths based approach is stressed and the overal approach should focus on community growth and change from within
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- Participation in health promotion should be a relational and cyclical process of questioning answers and meeting people where they are rather than the common top-down approach in which health promoters and experts make the decisions and simply seek response from the "targeted" community
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Engage through supportive subordinate roles within existing structures/projects guided by the community
Focus on the social forces and conditions that shape behaviours and outcomes rather than individial-level behaviours
- A rubric for participatory practice in health promotion could highlight listening to stories, engaging in respectful dialogue, and engaging in critical reflexivity to allow people to connect across differences within a community so to gain a clearer idea of how to mobilize for meaningful change
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Reflection: assumptions are collectively questioned, allowing us to deconstruct harmful narratives
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- Neo-liberalism challenges transformative participatory practice in health promotion as its emphasis on individualism and competition interferes with the collective nature of participation
The degrees of openness to participation between sectors and jurisdictions can inhibit ones ability to participate
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- Alinsky-tradition organizing is an approach that emphasizes an organizers role in persuading a marginalized community that they can and should mobilize to enact change on an issue and helping them to devise a winnable, non-violent plan to redress power imbalances.
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Crtiqued for its avoidance of critical, large scale issues, such as racism, because these issues are not easily winnable
Critiqued for its emphasis on a narrow self-interest as a primary driver and emphasis on conflict and confrontation