Introductions-Goa Festival-

Peter KenyonDirector

Bank of IDEAS(Initiatives for the Development of Enterprising

Action and Strategies)n

‘That’s Us’

‘Welcome’

Namaste

Goal 1: To create an international sharing

and learning experience around Asset Based

Community Development (ABCD)

Asset Based Community Devlopment(ABCD) Framework

•Shifting the development mindset from--needs and deficiencies to assets and capacities

-from consumer, customer and client to co-producer, co-owner and citizen

•Discovering, mapping, connecting and celebrating the diverse range of community assets, and

harnessing the connected assets for action that strengthens caring and inclusive communities.

‘We are motivated by what we don’t have, to use what

we do have, to get

what we want’.

(Rev Dr Moses Coody)

John McKnight Jody Kretzmann

Asset Based Community Development Institute.Chicago, USA

‘WHAT WE FOCUS ON BECOMES OUR REALITY. IF

WE FOCUS ON WHAT IS WRONG OR WHAT IS

MISSING, WE TEND TO SEE EVERYTHING THROUGH THAT

FILTER OR FRAME.’(Jody Kretzmann and John McKnight)

Communities have

deficiencies and needs

Communities and it’s citizens

have capacities and assets

Asset-focussedCitizen-centric Place-basedRelationship-

orientated

‘Every community that is getting stronger has at its

centre an effort to build up a wider circle of people who

choose to take action for the common good.’

-Mike Green

‘Top down, outside in’

Weaknesses

deficiencies, needs

Disabilities

Consumers/clients/customers of services and programs

Silo provision

Servicing of community

Asset BasedCommunity Development

Traditional Community Development

‘Inside out’

Strengthsassets, opportunities

Abilities, capacities

Citizens/co-producers/co-owners of local initiatives

Collaboration, relationships, networkingStrengthening of community

Importance of community relationshipsLeadership by ‘stepping back’

TO FOR

WITH OF / BY

‘Go to the peopleLive among themLearn from them

Love themStart with what they knowBuild on what they have

But of the best leaders when their task is done

The people will remark “We have it done it ourselves”’.

(Lao Tze)

Goal 2: To provide a travel experience to India and especially

Goa. ‘If I was asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India’ (Max Mueller)

This is India!

Agnel Lobo

Goal 3: To contribute to the community

building efforts of local Goans.

Goal 4: To have fun!

Na to rourou

Na taku rourou

Ka ora ai te iwi

With your food basket

And my food basket

The people will thrive