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9. “Building Community
from Within”
Presentation by Peter Kenyon

11. Connecting with Ontario
Constance Creek, March
Township, Kanata, Ottawa

12. Spending time with
people who care
“The greatest asset of any
community is simply people
who care”
-Paul Born
Tamarack

13. Engaging with people
from small rural communities
‘The nice thing about living
in a small town is that when
you don’t know what you’re
doing, someone else does’
- Peter Kenyon

14. ‘The sun does not
forget a village
because it is
small’
African Proverb

15. Chatham-Kentt

16. Stuart Kiar
Dresden

17. Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig
Sault Ste. Marie

21. Sharing about building
from within and
community Power
‘I work from the firm
belief that “whatever the
issue, community is the
answer.”’
-Margaret Wheatley

22. “Community has the power to
change everything. No amount of
innovation, individual brilliance, or
money can transform our broken
society as effectively and
sustainably as building community"
John Kania, Co-creator
of Collective Impact

25. ‘Most communities can
often be compared to an
ice hockey game where
10,000 people who need
the exercise, turn up to
watch
12 players
who don’t.’
(Peter Kenyon)

26. • ‘Top down, outside in’
• Focus on weaknesses, deficiencies,
needs and disabilities
• Services and programs are the answer
to community needs
• Consumers/clients/customers/service
users
• Silo provision
• Focus on servicing of community, not
strengthening community
• Dependence on outside professionals
Traditional
Community Development

27. TO FOR

29. Mudginbadi, Kakadu

30. Margaret Wheatley
“One of the things we need
to learn is that every great
change starts from very
small conversations held
among people who care”

33. Mark

38. Key Learnings:
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❖ Change is an inside-job.
❖ Communities are untapped
reservoirs of possibility.
❖ Never do anything for
anyone that they can do
for themselves.

39. Key Learnings:
❖ Healthy communities are places where
everyone member belongs, matters
and contributes.
❖ Everybody has gifts- no exceptions.
❖ Start with what is strong, not wrong.
❖ Everyone cares about something and
its their motivation to act.

40. Key Learnings:
❖ Community building is all about
relationship building
❖ More conversations, less meetings!
❖ Less services, more community.
❖ Focus on strengthening community,
not servicing community

42. ‘Change is a threat when done to
me, but an opportunity when done
by me’
‘When we do change to people
they experience it as violence.
When people do change for
themselves they experience it as
liberation”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

43. ‘Our purpose is
not to help
people. Our
purpose is to
build a different
kind of
community for us
all.’
Susan Rans

44. John McKnight
Jody Kretzmann

45. John McKnight
Jody Kretzmann
Asset Based
Community
Development
Institute.
Chicago, USA

46. ‘Top down, outside in’
Weaknesses
deficiencies, needs
Disabilities
Consumers/clients/custom
ers of services
and programs
Silo provision
Servicing of community
Dependence on outside
ABCD
Traditional
Community Development
‘Inside out’
Strengths
assets, opportunities
Abilities, capacities
Citizens/co-producers/co-
owners of local initiatives
Collaboration, relationships,
networking
Strengthening of community
Importance of community
relationships
Leadership by ‘stepping back’

47. TO FOR
WITH OF / BY

48. Consumers Customers
Clients Service Users
Producers Citizens
Co-Designers Contributors

49. ‘Strong communities are created
when citizens are the producers of
their own future. They can not be
replaced. No professional,
institution, business or government
can substitute for the power,
creativity or relevance of
productive citizens.’
Mike Green

50. ‘The future of
every community
lies in capturing
the passion,
imagination, and
resources of its
people’.
(Ernesto Sirolli)

51. The Story of Kulin

52. Town Mission- 1998
Stop depopulation and loss of
town services
through-
➢Becoming a more than “a dot
on the map”.
➢Building local pride and
commitment.

57. Ninja Warrier Course in Kulin

59. Kulin Community
Bank

62. Camp Hart

63. Travelling Ambassadors for Kulin

64. ‘Kulin
Open
Doors’
and ‘Kulin
By Night’

67. Kulin Hub

69. What is the
recipe for building a
strong and resilient
community from
within?

70. ‘Given the task of rejuvenating
a region and the choice of
$50 million, or $2 million and
20 committed local leaders,
we would choose the smaller
amount of money and the
committed leaders.’
(McKinsey and Company (1994) Lead Local
Compete Global: Unlocking the Growth of
Australia’s Regions)

71. What is leadership?
‘Leadership is the thing
that wins battles. I have
it, but I’ll be damned if I
can define it’.
General George Patton

72. 'Leadership is not
necessarily a title or a
powerful position; it is a
process, it is relational,
it is making something
happen, it is leaving a
mark.’
-Larraine Matusak

73. ‘A leader’s task is to
open doors and windows’.
-John Gardiner

74. ‘If your actions inspire
others to dream more,
learn more and become
more, you are a leader.’
John Quincey
Adams

75. ‘If you want a year of
prosperity, grow grass.
If you want ten years of
prosperity, grow trees.
If you want 100 years of
prosperity, grow people.‘
Scott’s Bluff Leadership

76. The Community
Builders Program
A grassroots leadership program
that seeks to support local
community builders within a defined
cluster of communities to better
understand and build their local
and regional community and
economy.

77. C. B. Program Goals
 Provide the necessary information,
skills, tools, motivation, confidence and
passion to positively manage community
change.
 Encourage new thinking about ways to
better support and nurture social and
economic development at local and
regional levels.
 Stimulate collaboration between
communities and create peer support
networks and friendship links across a
region.

78. C. B. Learning Program Components
 Monthly ‘Cluster Muster’ workshop days
 Community asset mapping experiences.
 Individual community team meetings
 Additional leadership skills development opportunities.
 Final celebration event.
 Formulation of local action plans.

79. Community
Action
Plan

80. Typical Monthly ‘Cluster Muster’ Day
‘First Impressions’ tour of host
community – feedback to hosts.
Informal sharing over refreshment
breaks.
 Resource information session.
Sharing of case studies.
 Interactive workshop experience
focusing on an identified learning
priorities.

82. 2. Cultivate a positive
and proactive mindset
• appreciates that meaningful and
lasting transformation always
originates from within the
community, not from the ‘top
down or outside in’
• accepts change and welcomes new
and alternative thinking
• values idea and opportunity
obsession

83. Appreciative Mindset
“Life is different when you
focus on the positive. There
is more affirmation, more
possibility and more hope.”
(Father Gregorio Banaga )

84. We Can Ask Questions in Two Ways
1. What is wrong with our community?
What problems can we fix?
What are the needs of our community?
What is broken?
or
2. What are the strengths and assets of our
community?
Share a time when you felt our community
was at it’s best?
What do you value most about our
community?
What is the essence of our community
that makes it unique and strong?

85. The key question is-
‘What matters to
you?’
Rather than -
‘What’s the matter?’

86. Communities
have
deficiencies
and needs
Communities
and it’s citizens
have capacities
and assets

87. COMMUNITY NEEDS MAP
Unemployment
Vacant
Shops
Run
Down
Shopping
Centre
Homelessness
Truancy
Dysfunctional
Families
Welfare
Dependency
Alcoholism
Drug Abuse
Youth
Suicide
Loss of
Community Spirit
Child
Abuse
Mental
Health
Crime
Bullying
Graffiti
Early
School Leavers
Illiteracy

88. COMMUNITY ASSETS MAP
LOCAL INSTITUTIONS & RESOURCES
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
GIFTS OF INDIVIDUAL
Local
Businesses
Ovals
Hospital
Schools
Service
Clubs
Neigh -
bourhood
House
Community
Organisations
Sporting
Teams
Churches
Mosques
Temples
Young
People
All
Residents
Senior
Citizens
Community
Stories
Artists
Labelled
People
Local Facilities
Government
Agencies
Local
Council

89. Community Asset
Richness
“Every community has far
more assets than anyone
person knows”
-Mike Green

90. Six Key Community Assets
1.People’s passions, skills, connections and
experiences and above all,
what they care about
2. The physical world
3. Community associations
4. Institutional assets
5. Economic/business assets
6. Cultural assets-stories, traditions,
heritage

91. 2. Positive and proactive
mindset
• focuses on optimism, expectation
and ‘the half full part of the
glass’
• takes risks and encourages a
resilient ‘can-do’ outlook
• balances the focus on
community, economic and
environmental wellbeing

93. "…But no community can
use this guide unless you,
the individual reading this
foreword at this moment,
say to yourself, ‘I’m going
to pitch in to make this
work.’”
US Small Town Manual for
Community Action, 1942

96. ‘I think negative people
should be taxed. They require an
incredible amount of energy.
They're like corgis nibbling at
your ankles and I'm sure they
exist to show us the difference
between heaven and hell.’
(Vicki Buck, Mayor, Christchurch City Council)

97. ‘You can’t move your town to
a different location. You can
move your town’s attitude in
a different direction’
Heartland Center for
Leadership Development, USA

98. ‘Nowadays towns are really not so different from
businesses, they need to keep recreating
themselves. Not so many years ago country
towns were subject to general trends. They
would all do well or all do badly. The picture is
now very uneven. The successful towns are likely
to be driven by people who are passionate and
creative, who see an opportunity and go for it.
You need communities with a bit of get up and go
spirit. Some have it, some don't.‘
Roy Powell

99. • Encourages broad based and
inclusive community involvement
• Maximises community
conversations
• Identifies maps and promotes
awareness of local assets,
capacities, strengths,
opportunities and competitive
advantages
3. Healthy Community
Building Behaviours

100. Gift-Obsessive
‘Every single person has
capacities, abilities, gifts and
ideas, and living a good life
depends on whether those
capacities can be used, abilities
expressed, gifts given and
ideas shared”
Jody Kretzmann

101. World Health Organisation (WHO)
Definition of Mental Health-
“a state of wellbeing in which the
individual realises his or her own
abilities, can cope with the
normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully, and is
able to make a contribution to his
or her community.’

103. Story of the New
Prospect Baptist
Church

104. Introduction
My name is ___________.
1. What is your name?
2. Did someone talk to you about what the ‘Gift Exchange’ is all
about?
3. What do you understand it to be?
Basically, we believe that everyone has God-given talents and
gifts that can be used to benefit the community. I’d like to spend
a few minutes talking to you about your gifts and skills.
Gifts
Gifts are abilities that we are born with. We may develop them, but no
one has to teach them to us.
1. What positive qualities do people say you have?
2. Who are the people in your life that you give to? How do you give
to them?
3. When was the last time you shared with someone else? What was
it?
4. What do you give that makes you feel good?
New Prospect Baptist Church
Cincinnati, OH
Conversation Questions

105. Skills
Sometimes we have talents that we’ve acquired in
everyday life such as cooking and fixing things.
1. What do you enjoy doing?
2. If you could start a business what would it be?
3. What do you like to do that people would pay you to
do?
4. Have you ever made anything? Have you ever fixed
anything?
Dreams
Before you go, I want to take a minute and hear about
your dreams – those goals you hope to accomplish.
1. What are your dreams?
2. If you could snap your fingers and be doing
anything, what would it be?
New Prospect Baptist Church
Conversation Questions

106. ‘We were feeding folks,
but we were not getting
to know them.’
(Damian Lynch 111,New Prospect Baptist
Church Pastor)

107. Discover what people
care about
“Everyone cares
about something,
and that passion is
his or her
motivation to act.”
-Jody Kretzmann

108. Canadian Survey : Why
People Volunteered
82% of respondents said:
‘because someone who
they knew, asked them do
something they liked doing’

116. Key Question:
Whose gifts are
underutilised in
the community?

117. Labelled People:
• Homeless Unemployed
• Low income person
• Non-English speaking
• Single parent
• Addict
• Offender
• Old person
• At-risk youth
• Person with disability

118. 'EVERY LIVING PERSON HAS SOME
GIFT OR CAPACITY OF VALUE TO
OTHERS. A STRONG COMMUNITY
IS A PLACE THAT RECOGNISES
THESE GIFTS AND
ENSURES THEY ARE GIVEN.
A WEAK COMMUNITY IS A PLACE
WHERE
LOTS OF PEOPLE CAN’T
OR
DON'T
GIVE THEIR GIFTS.'
-Jody Kretzmann

119. ‘People really want to get involved. They really want
to. They’re looking for a way to turn their frustration,
excitement, anxiety into action. The theme of my work
in community for my entire life is that there are
assets and gifts in community out there in communities,
and that our job as good servants and as good leaders
is having the ability to recognize those gifts in others,
and help them put those gifts into action.
Communities are filled with assets that
we need to better recognize and mobilize if we’re
really going to make a difference’
Michele Obama

121. BOI Handouts
❑ ‘27 Ways to Recruit More
Volunteers’
❑ ‘83 Ways to Retain
Volunteers’
❑ !0 main Reasons Why
www.bankofideas.com.au

122. ‘I can’t save
the world on
my own…it will
take at least
three of us.’
Bill Mollison, a founder
of the Permaculture
Movement
Supporting collaboration,
partnerships and
networking

123. ‘If you want to
go faster, go
alone. If you
want to go
further, go
together.
(African Proverb)

124. • Develops specific youth
engagement, retention and
attraction strategies
• Nurtures altruism and community
and neighbour support for those
experiencing times of vulnerability
• Actively builds community spirit,
pride and a sense of attachment
3. Practice Healthy Community
Building Behaviours

125. Actively engages these
groups now!

126. Three Youth Engagement
Strategy Foci
 While young people are resident in the
community, create great memories and
opportunities.
 Why they are studying, living, working and
travelling away, keep “lines” to them.
 When young people are considering putting
down “roots” (25-40 age) – partnering,
having babies, buying a house, starting a
business..remind them of “home” and its
advantages.

127. • ‘RuMAD? – Are You
Making a Difference?
(Bank of I.D.E.A.S.)
• ‘Community Minded Kids’
(Community Minds)
www.bankofideas.com.au
Practical and Useful Youth
Empowerment Resources

128. 4.Impliment strong local
economic development practices
C.A.R.E. Business
Strategy:
C-REATION
A-TTRACTION
R-ETENTION
E-XPANSION

129. ‘Right now, in your community, at this
very moment, there is someone who
is dreaming about doing something to
improve his / her lot.
If we could learn how to help that
person to transform the dream into
meaningful work, we would be halfway
to changing the economic fortunes of
the entire community’
Ernesto Sirolli

130. ‘When the members of a community come
together for a common cause, without
purely financial or commercial motives,
when they co-operate and collaborate to
save or preserve something that is
important and valuable to the community,
they can unlock something very powerful’
Julian Ross

131. GNP 360 Co-operative Launch

133. Tiny Riverina community of Grong Grong raises
$1m to save pub from closure

134. Ongerup locals buy pub, service station,
supermarket and cafe to keep town alive

141. The Community Champions in Sea Lake that
Reopened the Pub as a Co-operative

142. This was their Motivation and Vision

143. ‘We’ve got a lot of young people
here, and a lot of succession
farmers, so we needed a town
that has facilities, a place where
they want to bring their kids up
and keep the community
going…it’s about future proofing
the town for the next
generation.’
Alison McClelland,
Sea Lake Hotel Co-operative

144. Sea Lake Pub- This was their Goal

146. Victorian town of Sea Lake
transformed from 'ghost town' to
international tourism hotspot
ABC Wimmera
/ By Danielle Grindlay and Jennifer Douglas
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-01/victoria-selfies-
sea-lake-chinese-media-weibo-farmers-wife/11998822

147. Key Community Building Blocks
For a strong and resilient
community
1. Proactive and Shared
Local Leadership
2. Positive Mindset
3. Healthy Community
Building Behaviours
4. Strong Economic
Development Practices

149. Deni Ute Muster

151. ‘Twenty years ago, I was 21 years old and had
just returned home from university to take up the
role as the very first Director of the Deniliquin
Ute Muster. What I learnt that year has stayed
with me forever… Back then Deniliquin was in the
grips of a devasting drought. Our passionate
community rallied to ask a simple question- how
can we put Deniliquin on the map?
Ultimately, it came down to three elements: a big
vision; a bold idea and in numerable beating hearts
full of passion’
Liz Richie, CEO,
Regional Australia Institute

152. ‘Conventional wisdom suggests that for
a small town to survive it needs to be
near a major highway, have significant
natural resources in the region, be
close to a larger city or have some
other “characteristic or circumstance”
working in its favour. Yet in reality,
leadership is proving to be more
important than location and attitude is
more important than community size’
Heartland Center for
Leadership Development, USA

153. Questions/Contributions

154. BOI WEBSITE-
www.bankofideas.com.au
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155. Community Builder
Resources
www.bankofideas.com.au/handouts/

158. ‘We want so much that our
daughters know a community
life that is truly good....my
dream has always been that
Anne will the get the chance
to live a life where she is
needed for her gifts’ ‘.’
Mike Green

160. ‘Dream big.
Start small.
Act now’
Robin Sharma

162. Contact Details
Peter Kenyon
pk@bankofideas.com.au
www.bankofideas.com.au

163. Registration Link:

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