The first workshop that I attended this week at Tamarack Institute’s 2016 Community Change Institute demonstrated a simple tool for working with multiple stakeholders in a collaborative way. The first step in the process, Liz Weaver explained, is to have the stakeholders reflect on their history. What has happened in the past? What is the story you share? Liz went on to explain that the reason for the first step is because everything we do is built upon something else. If

The theme of the 2016 Community Change Institute (CCI) hosted by the Tamarack Institute is “Disruption.” The word disruption can evoke a mixed set of emotions. On one hand it may evoke anxiety. As Mark Cabaj shared in his introduction at CCI, we, humans, are hard-wired for stability. On the other hand, it may evoke a sense of hopefulness and possibility. Disruption may lead to a positive break in patterns that are oppressive or no longer serve us. The bottom line is disrup

The Tamarack Institute is a keen, thoughtful, and deep observer of how community change happens at the beginning of the 21st century, while also being participants in, and facilitators of, that community change. Through the generosity of the Assisi Foundation of Memphis and the Tamarack Institute itself (no doubt through the generous support of their funders), I am in Toronto attending my first Tamarack gathering – Community Change Institute 2016. I plan to submit daily blog(