Listening and Enabling
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I
started work as a community worker at the Zebra Project in the 1980s
and trained at Goldsmith's College in the 1990s and earlier at the
Urban Theology Unit and Birkbeck College. From 2000-2008 I was a senior
practitioner with Barnardos CANDL project. My main interest has been
working with grassroots groups and also networking across a wide range
of projects and organizations. Breathing spaceOver
the past 10 years face-to-face work with individuals, and occasionally
with groups, has gradually become a more important part of my work
sometimes I have called this nonmanagerial supervision, sometimes work
consultancy, sometimes just personal support. I wanted, however, to
equip myself to do this work better, so together with
Geoffrey Court of Circle Works and some
other colleagues we developed a reflective process which led to us
coining the phrase Breathing Space to describe what we found ourselves
doing. FacilitationOver
my years as a community worker I have accompanied many groups as they
have sought to develop and flourish as community organizations this has
involved: ResearchI
have always been interested in research and therefore took a Masters in Applied
Anthropology from Goldsmith's College. I have some experience in
quantitative methods -- particularly in the use of neighborhood
statistics such as the census, but I am particularly interested in
qualitative and participative methods. That is approaches which treat
the people on the ground as the experts and seeks to enable them to
educate themselves through learning more about what they are doing.
These documents summarize my approach | ChargesWork History |