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Becky Hirst. For the Love of Community Engagement
Foreword
Introduction
1. Understand community engagement within the context of society
2. Give a voice to the underdog
3. Work from the bottom-up
4. Form powerful partnerships
5. Use creative and innovative processes
6. Facilitate the telling of stories for rich conversation
7. Use and nurture the Third Sector
8. Go where the people are
9. Work together with key influencers and community leaders
10. Use engagement to strengthen communities
11. Give engagement the leadership kudos it deserves
12. Position engagement to be seen and heard
13. Listen deeply without always needing to find an answer
14. Understand community engagement in the context of your own motives
15. Treat the community as your client
16. Immerse yourself in your own community
17. Be led by the people
18. Be bold and brave in pushing new frontiers in community engagement
19. Consider digital first
20. Go back to the future
100 At-a-Glance Conversation Starters
Glossary of terms
Community Engagement
Community Immersion Process
Very Important People
The Goosebump Measure of Significance
Helicopter Engagement
The Black Hole of Bureaucracy
Public-Initiated Participation (PIP)
Citizen-Centric Organisations
Keynote Listener
Politicians on Pedestals
Chronology of Landmark Moments. 1996-1999
1997
1999
2001
2002
2004
2005-2007
2007
13 February 2008
2009
2010
2009-2021
2011
2013-2015
2016
2017
2018
2021
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About Wendy Sarkissian
Image references and permissions
References
Endnotes
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I acknowledge the traditional owners of the Country on which I sit as I write these stories, the Kaurna people.
I recognise their continuing connection to land, waters, and culture.
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In this respect, she’s contributing to our body of professional knowledge by shining the clear light of day on hard truths we can’t escape. There are lots of relationships of oppression and domination in the practice of community engagement. So, why don’t we just admit what’s happening?
We don’t need to leave this analytical work to the academic sociologists. I’ll give you an example. On the consulting job I thought was probably my finest work, I made promises to residents of a community in south-western Sydney that their voices would be heard in the comprehensive redevelopment of their whole suburb. This was to be a PPP, a public-private partnership: the first of its kind in New South Wales involving the comprehensive redevelopment of a public housing estate. I was the agent. And there was a principal who finally arrived: a Melbourne building firm that had done similar work that was quite successful.
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