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When People Care Enough to Act: ABCD

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When People Care Enough to Act:  ABCD (Asset Based Community Development)

Mike Green and Henry Moore worked with John McKnight for years.  They were deeply committed to ABCD – Asset Based Community Development.  The question they encountered most often was  “What do I do Monday morning?”  This book  is their answer.  It is a great collaborative effort.

Mike Green

Mike Green offers ABCD training and consultation to organizations to engage their local communities as partners for collective action. He teaches and consults throughout North America and in New Zealand and Australia. Mike’s focus is the practical implementation of ABCD principles. He was the training director of the ABCD Institute’s Neighborhood Circle for four years. […]

ABCD IN ACTION DVD: Asset Based Community Development – now available on line!!

$75.00

ABCD IN ACTION DVD: Asset Based Community Development :   ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups who have utilized the principles of ABCD to create partnerships with those they serve and in effect, rejuvenate and revitalize their organizations.
Included are profiles from:

• Neighborhood Associations in Savannah, Georgia

• Beyond Welfare, an organization supporting people in poverty in Ames, Iowa

• The Archdiocese of Upper Michigan in Marquette, Michigan

• Lakes Region Community Services Council, supporting people with disabilities in New Hampshire

• Neighborhood Housing Services, an organization providing affordable housing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina.

Plus extensive interviews and commentaries by Mike Green, Henry Moore and John McKnight
Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); “What do I do Monday Morning?”–and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers–-these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing.

ABCD in Action profiles five diverse groups who have utilized the principles of ABCD to create partnerships with those they serve and in effect, rejuvenate and revitalize their organizations.
Included are profiles from:
• Neighborhood associations in Savannah, Georgia
• Beyond Welfare, an organization supporting people in poverty in Ames, Iowa
• The Archdiocese of Upper Michigan in Marquette, Michigan
• Lakes Region Community Services Council, supporting people with disabilities in New Hampshire
• Neighborhood Housing Services, an organization providing affordable housing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina.
Plus extensive interviews and commentaries by Mike Green, Henry Moore and John McKnight
Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); “What do I do Monday Morning?”–and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers–-these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing.
Main topics include: ABCD Principles & Practice • Discovering What People Care About • Mobilizing A Community’s Assets • People & Programs: We Need Both • Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies • Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need • John McKnight’s Reflections On ABCD organizing. Lessons from Ashville NC; Marquette, MI; Laconia, NH; Savannah, GA; Ames, IO.

When People Care Enough to Act – ABCD eBook

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When People Care Enough to Act:  ABCD:  these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work

Asset Based Community Development

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abcd book.index plus McKnight foreword

Developed in response to the question “I love ABCD (Asset Based Community Development); “What do I do Monday Morning?”–and based on Mike Green & Henry Moore’s highly regarded work as ABCD organizers, consultants and trainers–-these materials support a practical approach to creating community collaborations that work. Enriching each other, the book and the DVD provide clear exposition of ABCD organizing principles and best practices, examples of ABCD organizing in action, learning exercises, worksheets, and reflections from experienced practitioners of ABCD organizing.

Main topics include: ABCD Principles & Practice • Discovering What People Care About • Mobilizing A Community’s Assets • People & Programs: We Need Both • Leading By Stepping Back: The Role Of Governments & Agencies • Inclusion: There Is No One We Do Not Need • John McKnight’s Reflections On ABCD organizing. Lessons from Ashville NC; Marquette, MI; Laconia, NH; Savannah, GA; Ames, IO.

Forward by John McKnight

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John McKnight

John McKnight is the co-founder of ABCD – Asset Based Community Development – an institute, books, world leadership. His remarkable thought leadership has a very special connection to the Toronto Summer Institutes. John is one of the founding faculty members and Hosts of the Summer Institutes – and has been relentlessly consistent in making space […]

The Opportunity for Truth & Reconciliation

Creating the Futures We Want Key links in this article: • Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report • CBC NEWS – Truth and Reconciliation offers 94 ‘calls to action’ • [Product] ABCD in Action • [Resource] Circles of Friends/Support The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report with 94 Recommendations is 5 years old this week.   It […]

John McKnight: ABCD – Something more to Life than Consuming

John McKnight – consummate story-teller reminds us that the ‘system’ wants to convince us that they can ‘live your life for you’ with ‘more stuff’. Alternatively, WE ALL HAVE GIFTS. Gifts must be contributed. It isn’t about being a consumer – it is about being a citizen. John McKnight: Videos, Articles, Books

Henry Moore

Henry Moore, co-author of ABCD publications City-Sponsored Community Building: Savannah’s Grants for Blocks Story and Leading by Stepping Back: A Guide For City Officials on Building Neighborhood Capacity, developed and implemented nationally recognized ABCD neighborhood initiatives as assistant city manager of Savannah, Georgia. Henry Moore passed away on February 2nd and was buried in his […]

John McKnight

John McKnight is emeritus professor of education and social policy and codirector of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at DePaul University. He is the coauthor of Building Communities from the Inside Out and the author of The Careless Society. He has been a community organizer and serves on the boards of several national organizations that […]

INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES

Teams accomplish more than individuals. However, ordering people to work as a team has flawed logic. We need to learn how to work together, to listen to one another – to get along. We need new tools, new stories, to skills to build effective teams. Virtually all the tools we have developed are ‘out of […]

MAPS: Action Planning Forest & Pearpoint

Download: MAPS: Action Planning ABSTRACT:This sort article appeared in our book “Inclusion Papers” outlining the steps of a MAP as we understood them at that time (2001). We have evolved based our experience – and although this makes good reading (historically), we would recommend using the more current version of MAPS in the book…The PATH […]

Ordering Checklist

Clicking on a title will take you to the descriptive page for that item. If you wish to order multiple copies of any item you may adjust the quantity when you arrive at the shopping cart page. Books; E-books; DVD’s; Posters; Audio Tracks… This page does not update automatically – yet – so if you […]

Resources for Inclusion

We are committed to building a world where everyone is fully included as a contributing citizen – in their community. We have assembled a wide range of resources that we hope will assist you on your journey to inclusion in your community. Person-Centered Planning: PATH, MAPS & CIRCLES PATH; MAPS & Circles – an extensive […]

Inclusion Theater

Welcome to the Inclusion Theater, a space where we share some of our favorite videos of thinkers, artists, players, and citizens from over the years. There are ‘historical’ videos (from the early annals of inclusion) – almost 200 videos organized into categories for your easy viewing. You can also watch our Live Streams here!  First, […]

Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES for Inclusive Education

Dunner ar Dybwad; Herb Lovett; Rosemary Dybwad; Jack Pearpoint; Marsha Forest – a Circle of Friends This article went viral in the early 90’s because families were starving for new options for their children, teachers could feel possibility but were trapped… So simple down to earth stories of using the concepts and models of Circles […]

Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES for Inclusive Education

DOWNLOADCommon Sense Tools Marsha ForestBooks, Articles and Videos Jack PearpointBooks, Articles and Videos This article went viral in the early 90s because families were starving for new options for their children, teachers could feel possibility but were trapped… So simple, down-to-earth stories of using the concepts and models of Circles and MAPS were ‘revolutionary’ to […]

Erwin Wieringa

Erwin Wieringa — a strong catalyst for inclusion in the Netherlands and throughout Europe since 1991. A talented colleague, friend, author, playwright and cyclist. Sir Erwin Wieringa Knighted November 13, 2009: Royal Order of Orange-Nassau for his work on inclusive education in The Netherlands. Royal Order of Orange-Nassau: website / Wikipedia Congratulatory Letter on Knighthood (from Lynda […]

Judith Snow

Judith SnowOct. 29, 1949 – May 31, 2015 Our dear friend and faculty member Judith Snow passed away on the evening of May 31, 2015. Below is a letter from John McKnight to our faculty about Judith. Dear Circle of Friends; Jack Pearpoint of Inclusion Press made a moving slide show of Judith’s life. It […]

Actions that Build Community [PDF]

John O’Brien Actions That Build Community connect with others • build trust • get involved Communities grow stronger when citizens regularly and persistently do a variety of simple things together that give them chances to connect with others, build trust and get involved in doing things together. The web of trusting relationships that grows from […]

L’Intégration en action – eBook

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L’integration en action.francais

Comment améliorer l’école en accueillant dans les classes régulières ces enfants présentant

IQDM:  Éditions de la colleclivité   Institut québécois de la déficience mentale

Traduction et adaptation québécoise de ”Action for inclusion”
par O’Brien & Forest avec Snow, Pearpoint et Hasbury

CHANGE MAKERS

We have had the privilege of working with many remarkable colleagues who share life long passions to build a world that welcomes the talents and capacities of every person into participation in community life. We have created collections (libraries) of some of the key articles, videos and resources created individually and collaboratively. Most of these […]

CHANGE MAKERS

We have had the privilege of working with many remarkable colleagues who share life long passions to build a world that welcomes the talents and capacities of every person into participation in community life. We have created collections (libraries) of some of the key articles, videos and resources created individually and collaboratively. Most of these […]

CHANGE MAKERS make change

We have had the privilege of working with many remarkable colleagues who share life long passions to build a world that welcomes the talents and capacities of every person into participation in community life. We have created collections (libraries) of some of the key articles, videos and resources created individually and collaboratively. Most of these […]

POWER of THREE Bundle

$70.00

A group of three recommended resource books:

ABCD in Action:  When People Care Enough to Act

PATH & MAPS Handbook:  Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

Make a Difference:  A guidebook for Person-Centered Direct Support

Creating What I Know About Community

by Judith A. Snow DOWNLOAD this article A Summary: Judith Snow is still a gifted and visionary thinker – and so this writing about Dreaming, Giftedness is ultimately about relearning now to listen – so we can Dream the new Communities we so desperately want and need. Judith always began with a story – and […]

Action for Inclusion

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Action for Inclusion is a classic book — originally written for schools and families — and decades later is still full of fresh insights.  It is short and jargon free. It describes the Circle of Friends and the MAPS (Making Action Plans) processes.

MAPS

MAPS – formerly Making Action Plans – is a planning process for people and organizations that begins with a story – the history. MAPS has a series of empty container questions that ask a person/organization to share some of the milestones on their journey, so the planning circle can get to know them more deeply, […]

Conversations on Citizenship & Person-Centered Work

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Conversations on Citizenship & Person-Centered Work

John O’Brien and Carol Blessing, Editors, gathered and interviewed key practitioners of various approaches to person-centered work: Personal Futures Planning, MAPS, PATH, Person-Centered Thinking Tools and Essential Lifestyle Planning, and Cultivating True Livelihood.

Meet and explore with some of the founders and developers of these approaches to person ceneterd ways of working, as well as developers of approaches to organization and community development.

This is Volume III in the Person Centered Planning series.

This book is also available as part of the three-volume
>Person-Centered Planning Pack

Al Etmanski

Al Etmanski is a community organizer, social entrepreneur and author. He is a founding partner of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) and BC Partners for Social Impact. As co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) he proposed and led the campaign to establish the world’s only disability savings plan – the RDSP. Al is an Ashoka […]

Cormac Russell

Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought after speaker. He is Managing Director of Nurture Development and a faculty member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago. Over the last 25 years, Cormac’s work has demonstrated an enduring impact in 35 countries around the world. He has […]

Conversations on Citizenship & Person-Centered Work – eBook

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Citizenship and person-Centered Work:  John O’Brien and Carol Blessing, Editors …gathered and interviewed key practitioners of various approaches to person-centered work including:

Personal Futures Planning · MAPS · PATH · Person-Centered Thinking Tools Essential Lifestyle Planning · Cultivating True Livelihood · Framework for Support

Meet and explore with some of the founders and developers of these approaches…

Edited by John O’Brien & Carol Blessing

This ebook is also available as part of the
>Person-Centered Planning Pack

ACTION FOR INCLUSION – eBook

$20.00

ction for Inclusion is a classic book — originally written for schools and families — and decades later is still full of fresh insights.  It is short and jargon free. It describes the Circle of Friends and the MAPS (Making Action Plans) processes.

When Spider Webs Unite: Shafik in Action DVD

$45.00

This 37 minute video will keep the work and spirit of Shafik Asante alive for years to come.

This DVD is also available as part of the
>Spider Webs Unite Bundle

The Integration Facilitators/Integration Action Group – eBook

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Marsha Forest, Judith Snow and a clutch of passionate family members struggling to create futures for their children began the Integration Action Group.  They supported each other, coached, learned and lobbied.  They were a nightmare for many government bureaucracies as they were clear, principled and relentless.  This little booklet captures some of the flavour and identifies some of the cast of pioneers.  Note the term Integration FACILITATORS – 1986.
The Integration Facilitators.Integration Action Group.1986

Make A Difference

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Make A Difference

Developed in collaboration with people with developmental disabilities and families, direct support workers and managers.

Guides a Learning Journey that supports action-learning about relationship building, planning with people in a person-centered way, supporting choice, & building community inclusion. (Learning Journey workbooks are available to go with the book.)

Promotes discovery of meaning in the work of offering direct support

Encourages inquiry into the effects of beliefs & values on quality

Promotes reflection on day-to-day practice to guide improvement

Fosters the use of imagery, music & art as an aid to reflection & action planning

Honors the accomplishments of people with developmental disabilities and their direct support workers by presenting their stories & reflections

This is an extraordinary opportunity to support all your staff/ students with a book that will truly Make a Difference. Learning Journey Booklets are available in bulk. The Leader’s Resource Kit is available.

Make A Difference eBook

$25.00

Make A Difference

Developed in collaboration with people with developmental disabilities and families, direct support workers and managers.

Guides a Learning Journey that supports action-learning about relationship building, planning with people in a person-centered way, supporting choice, & building community inclusion. (Learning Journey workbooks are available to go with the book.)

Promotes discovery of meaning in the work of offering direct support

Encourages inquiry into the effects of beliefs & values on quality

Promotes reflection on day-to-day practice to guide improvement

Fosters the use of imagery, music & art as an aid to reflection & action planning

Honors the accomplishments of people with developmental disabilities and their direct support workers by presenting their stories & reflections

This is an extraordinary opportunity to support all your staff/ students with a book that will truly Make a Difference. Learning Journey Booklets are available in bulk. The Leader’s Resource Kit is available.

Jack Pearpoint

Books, Articles & Videos Jack Pearpoint is an independent Canadian Publisher and catalyst for Inclusion, Diversity, Teamwork and CHANGE! Jointly with his wife and partner, Lynda Kahn, Jack conducts workshops and consults with organizations and collaborates with people with disabilities and their families, to engage in positive change that honours the gifts and contributions of […]

Salamanca Statement

SALAMANCA STATEMENT:  NETWORK for ACTION on SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION Adopted by the World Conference on Special Needs Education:Access and Quality Salamanca, Spain, 7-10 June 1994 More than 300 participants representing 92 governments and 25 international organizations met in Salamanca, Spain in June 1994 to further the aim of Education for All by considering what basic […]

Hosting the times…in ourselves and with others

June 27, 2020 John O’Brien The fast moving shocks of recognized inequalities in the effects of the pandemic and the mass mobilization in response to the murder of George Floyd create profound questions of personal and collective responsibility. The social context demands action that has tangible, structural consequences. Can all that has become visible signal […]

PATH in ACTION: Working with Groups

In Yellowknife, North West Territories, in 1998, Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint worked with the Yellowknife School Board – stay and students to think about the future of a new High School. PATH sessions were conducted with the students, then school administrators and teachers – and finally ‘combined; to negotiate a common vision. this demonstrated […]

Action Options for a Better Life [PDF]

Nov. 2007 John O’Brien & Mike Green Action Options for Better Life-Chances People with developmental disabilities have better life chances when they benefit from a variety of learning efforts. This paper allows people to identify areas for local investment first by distinguishing between efforts to create a better system of assistance from efforts to organize […]

PATH in ACTION CLASSICAL BUNDLE

$110.00

This book and this PATH DVD (containing two our our original Videos) – are still considered the classics – the basics by many.

the original PATH video:  PATH TRAINING  (Joe’s PATH)   and

the PATH in ACTION video – with a school system in Yellowknife, NWT – working with groups.

The book – we now call PATH Classic – outlines the basics of the PATH & MAPS process – as we conceived them in the late 80’s – early 90’s.

PATH in Action – Working with Groups

The PATH process is powerful with individuals, organizations and groups. This 65 minute video demonstrates PATH with a school system in Yellowknife, North West Territories, working with both students and faculty. Facilitated by Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint, in 1998l PATH, MAPS & Circles of Friends Videos

The Ethics of Inclusion: Three Common Delusions

by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Shafik Asante & Judith Snow The Ethics of Inclusion: Three Common Delusions by John O’Brien, Marsha Forest, Jack Pearpoint, Shafik Asante & Judith Snow We want to begin a dialogue on the expectations about personal behavior that go along with a commitment to Inclusion. Unattainable expectations confuse good […]

VIRTUAL TSI IDEAS THAT MATTER

* * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * ** * * * * * * * * *Visit the Virtual TSI Launch page (Sept 17) – featuring John McKnight * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * […]

Action Learning for Quality Improvement [PDF]

John O’Brien May 1998 Most business approaches to quality improvement assume a stable process and long term decisions, external to the quality improvement process, about the goals, strategy, and structure of the organization. Typical quality improvement tools do not contemplate frequent redefinitions of the nature and direction of work because they are tools for making […]

Graphic Recording in Action – Jack Pearpoint

A two minute clip of Jack doing graphical notes of a series of speakers at a Passport Mentoring conference in Toronto

Action Learning for Quality Improvement [PDF]

A Review of the Transition to Individualized SupportsFor People Served by the Community Services Department of United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and S.W. Washington John O’Brien May, 1998 Most business approaches to quality improvement assume a stable process and long term decisions, external to the quality improvement process, about the goals, strategy, and structure […]

An Ethics of Possibility – John O’Brien

Download: An Ethics of Possibility Direct Support Workers and an Ethic of Possibility make good lives for all possible. This article explores that possibility. Direct support workers who are guided by an ethics of possibility build a relationship worthy of the trust of the people they assist and the people who love or have loved […]

A Disgrace to the Nation John O’Brien – 2005

Download Here A Reflective Piece – on the complexity of our systematic exclusion people with disabilities. John describes it as a “A disgrace to the nation”. He outlines the challenge ahead as we struggle to replace institutions. John O’Brien & Connie Lyle O’Brien: Books, Articles, Videos “A disgrace to the nation” A Turning Point in […]

The PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

$35.00

The PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

About this Handbook

25 years ago Marsha and Jack Pearpoint and John O’Brien designed MAPS and PATH as supports to people who need to discover strategies that serve their vision of inclusion in school and community life.  Decades have passed, so this handbook reflects what we have learned since the original Path Workbook in 1995.  There is also a DVD that updates much of our learning.

POWER OF THREE Bundle

Staff Development Resources

Teams accomplish more than individuals. However, ordering people to work as a team has flawed logic. We need to learn how to work together, to listen to one another – to get along. We need new tools, new stories, to skills to build effective teams. Virtually all the tools we have developed are ‘out of […]

PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community eBook

$35.00

PATH & MAPS Handbook: Person-Centered Ways to Build Community

25 years ago Marsha and Jack Pearpoint and John O’Brien designed MAPS and PATH as supports to people who need to discover strategies that serve their vision of inclusion in school and community life.  Decades have passed, so this handbook reflects what we have learned since the original Path Workbook in 1995.  There is also a DVD that updates much of our learning.

John McKnight – VTSI – Sept 17

Video of John McKnight’s talk: Libraries of Memories – Come Fly with Me. (18 min) John McKnight  – a talk on the launch of the Virtual Toronto Summer Institute on Sept. 17.2020.  John reflected on the Libraries in our memories – and how Marsha Forest, Judith Snow and Pat Worth – live on as great teachers […]

Inclusion Links

Literacy and School Resources Indigenous web links Publishers, Catalogues and Distributors Designing Solutions

The PATH & MAPS Handbook -Korean eBook

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About this Handbook

25 years ago Marsha and Jack Pearpoint and John O’Brien designed MAPS and PATH as supports to people who need to discover strategies that serve their vision of inclusion in school and community life.  Decades have passed, so this handbook reflects what we have learned since the original Path Workbook in 1995.  There is also a DVD that updates much of our learning.

POWER OF THREE Bundle

An Article from IFCO – the Individualized Funding Coalition for Ontario

Why Ontario doesn’t need ‘more’ institutionalized supports for seniors and others living with disabilities Note: IFCO is an amazing resource with cutting edge current comments – and deep history. Use it. For decades the Individualized Funding Coalition for Ontario (IFCO) along with many other provincial organizations, service agencies, people and families have supported the closure […]

David Hasbury

  David Hasbury is an organizational and community development consultant, educator, and facilitator. For more than 30 years he has been committed to engaging the power of CoCreation — people gathering together to creatively shape the world around them. He has worked throughout Canada, the United States, UK, and Asia. Among his methods of education and […]

Short Term Thinking – about Long TermCare

Aging in Place – Home Care First No seniors I know (me included) aspire to be ‘managed’ in a long-term care facility – which we tragically know can be dangerous, lonely and deadly. Rather the vast majority of us want to live out our days in our homes – with support as needed. This can […]

Inclusion! The Bigger Picture: Forest & Pearpoint

Download: Inclusion! the Bigger Picture Marsha Forest – Books, Articles and Videos Jack Pearpoint – Books, Articles and Videos Inclusion! The Bigger Picture by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint Our key question as we initiate a new millennium is “How do we live with one another?” Inclusion is about learning to live WITH one another. […]

Creating the Future We Want… We Need Circles of Support

Times of crisis – of global disruption – are also times for new ideas to blossom and take root.  While acknowledging the devastation of the pandemic, it also lays bare some of the catastrophic and systemic disregard for citizens with disabilities and others who have been marginalized in our society.  Within this painful visibility, there […]

WE CAN Game: An asset based community development game

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Cormac Russell is a remarkable community builder from Ireland, a member of the ABCD Institute with John McKnight, and a game inventor. This People Powered Change Game reveals hidden capacities in each of us. This game reminds us that there are certain things only people and communities can do, and if we don’t do them, then no one else will. And there is power in learning in ‘play’.

If you are looking for ways to discover and unleash the talents in every community or group — or team — this game and the possibilities and connections it opens up are for you! Easy to use. Serious fun with powerful learnings.

Available FREE as part of our On Line Library of Resources.

Faculty member of the ABCD Institute, Director of ABCD Europe, and Managing Director of Nurture Development

Day 3 | AM | Recordings | Virtual Toronto Summer Institute | July 14, 2021

DAY 3 | AM | Presentations at the Virtual Toronto Summer Institute On day 3, (AM) we were privileged to welcome John McKnight who has been with us from the beginning. John is a story letter, so he reminded us of the power and importance of our stories. And as a tribute to Judith Snow, […]

Rose Quartz Warrior Award

The Rose Quartz Warrior Award is a creation of the Marsha Forest Centre – honouring outstanding leadership and contribution in the field of inclusion and education. Marsha was a ‘warrior’ for peace and for Inclusion. She loved rose quartz and often referred to herself as a Rose Quartz Warrior. When she passed after a 12 […]

Al Etmanski

Al Etmanski is a community organizer, social entrepreneur, and author. He’s been a parent activist in the disability world since his daughter Liz was born. He led the closure of institutions and segregated schools in British Columbia, and founded Canada’s first Family Support Institute. In 1989 he co-founded Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN) with his wife Vickie Cammack. […]

John McKnight – Learnings …….a Collection of Articles

For about four years, John has been writing short articles – once a month – on what he is learning. Insightful, thoughtful, helpful, challenging. Well worth some time to scan and choose. John McKnights Learnings A Compilation of John McKnights Learnings, Tamarack Institute Learning 1 – The Problem with ProblemsLearning 2 – The Dilemma of […]

VIRTUAL TSI Launch Event with John McKnight

We Launched our Prototype Virtual TSI with John McKnight and friends… We recorded this event on Sept. 17 with John McKnight – theLaunch of Virtual TSI Video of Gerima Harvey heartbeat drumming (2 min) Video of Jack Pearpoint’s Welcome (1 min) Video of John McKnight’s talk: Libraries of Memories – Come Fly with Me. (18 […]

Keystone Articles

Inclusion and Education are big topics — and we have been in these trenches for over 40 years. Our ‘family of friends’ have been prolific, thoughtful, creative and relentless in efforts to share constructive options, thoughtful practices, helpful hints. Below are a ‘selection’ of articles that have been gleaned over the years. This is simply […]

The Inclusion Papers – eBook

$20.00

Practical, down to earth and sensible. Perfect for conferences, courses and workshops. Circles of Friends, MAPS, articles about drop-outs, kids at risk, Medical School course and more… graphics, poetry, overheads…

Another best seller. 150 pages chock full of articles designed to make people think and give them practical ideas for dealing with inclusion, diversity and change. Some of Jack Pearpoint’s graphics and Bob William’s poetry add to the vibrant writing. Favorite and now classic articles include Two Roads: Inclusion or Exclusion; The Butwhatabout Kids; MAPS: Action Planning; Dynamics of Support Circles; Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES; and Giftedness. This book is being used as a text in many courses. It cuts across all age groups and is also a good partner to Action for Inclusion. We encourage readers to use Action for Inclusion and Inclusion Papers together. We will discuss bulk rates for courses or conferences.

Marsha Forest Videos

With a Little Help from My Friends – Parts 1 – Judith Snow, Marsha Forest, George Flynn – Circle of Friends – in Kitchener, Ontario – An Inclusion Classic – 1988 – featuring Marsha Forest at work. This award winning 1 hour video describes the basics of creating schools where all kids belong and learn […]

The Inclusion Papers: Strategies to Make Inclusion Work

$20.00

Practical, down to earth and sensible. Perfect for conferences, courses and workshops. Circles of Friends, MAPS, articles about drop-outs, kids at risk, Medical School course and more… graphics, poetry, overheads…

Another best seller. 150 pages chock full of articles designed to make people think and give them practical ideas for dealing with inclusion, diversity and change. Some of Jack Pearpoint’s graphics and Bob William’s poetry add to the vibrant writing. Favorite and now classic articles include Two Roads: Inclusion or Exclusion; The Butwhatabout Kids; MAPS: Action Planning; Dynamics of Support Circles; Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES; and Giftedness. This book is being used as a text in many courses. It cuts across all age groups and is also a good partner to Action for Inclusion. We encourage readers to use Action for Inclusion and Inclusion Papers together. We will discuss bulk rates for courses or conferences.

This book is also available as part of the  Inclusion Classic Books Bundle

LONG TERM CARE

Short Term Thinking About Long Term Care – Challenges to Current Practice Essays on Aging In Place – free ebook Aging in Place – POSITIVE Possibilities – Collected Resources Why Ontario doesn’t need ‘more’ institutionalized supports for seniors and others living with disabilities Seniors for Social Action (Ontario) If you are worried about your future […]

Individualized Supports Learning History [PDF]

NYSACRALearning Institute on Innovation in Individualized Supports Learning History • Southern Tier June 2015 – November 2015 John O’Brien June–November 2015 3 -5 June ACHIEVEBroome OPWDDBroome DDRO OPWDD Epilepsy-Pyralid, Inc.Franziska Racker CentersHerkimer ArcSouthern Tier Independence Center Springbrook NY, Inc.The Arc Delaware CountyThe Arc OtsegoWayne Arc 3 -5 JuneChris Liuzzo: Common Life Experiences of Persons with DisabilitiesHanns Meissner: Blue Space […]

John O’Brien Articles: Community

John O’Brien and Connie Lyle O’Brien have been writing and thinking about how to build communities that include everyone for decades. Here is a selection of their writing on building community. Community back to the John O’Brien Change Makers page

Cracks and Change

by John O’Brien Metaphors shape options for action by influencing thought. Imagine a person with a disability as suffering from a disease, channel attention into the search for a cure and compliance with treatment regimes. Imagine a system as a machine, channel attention toward engineering mechanisms of command and control. Playing with metaphors can sharpen […]

Complex Needs Learning History [PDF]

NYSACRALearning Institute on Innovation and Individualized Supports for Persons with Complex NeedsA Learning History John O’Brien May–December 2016 Advocates, Heritage Christian Services, & NYS OPWDDAHRC NassauArc of MonroeAspire of WNY Family Residences & Essential EnterprisesHeartShareIndependence ResidencesMountain Lakes Services People Inc.Richmond Community ServicesThe Arc of WestchesterThe Resource Center, Unity House of Cayuga CountyWildwoodYAI Participating agencies developed change […]

Making Homes that Work

$35.00

Marsha Forest: Books, Articles & Videos

Marsha Forest was a relentless life long advocate for Inclusion. Originally from NYC, she was trained as a teacher of the deaf – including sitting on their hands to prevent using sign language. True to form, Marsha rejected that approach and spent her life teaching and supporting families to explore any and all forms of […]

Community Engagement & Individual Funding [PDF]

Community EngagementA Necessary Condition for Self-Determination and Individual Funding John O’Brien 1999 Contents The call for change ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2 Five trends that shape the strategy ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Opposition to current policy and advocacy for individualized funding ……………………………………. 3 Desire to change faulty assumptions and the backward policies that result ………………………………. 3 Competing understandings of scarcity […]

THE PATH Training DVD

$75.00

Contains these complete videos:

PATH in Action Training Video  (1998)
(65 min.)

PATH Training: Joe’s PATH   (1993)
(35 min.)

the PATH in Action Classical Bundle adds the Original PATH book

In DVD format, a menu allows you to move directly from segment to segment throughout both videos. Ideal for training and presentations. Easy access to the clip you need.PATH is a foundation tool that help anyone move into the future, effectively and creatively. This two-in-one training packet is used to provide support and instruction to people concerned with excellence and integrity in Person-Centered Planning processes.

These are excellent examples of a PATH with a group of school administrators, human service providers and families who want to create an inclusive school system. Marsha Forest and Jack Pearpoint go through each step of the process in detail. The two videos together will give the viewer a good glimpse into how PATH can be done with the focus on an individual or with a group. The PATH Workbook (PATH Classic) compliments the video.

Audience
School and Human Service systems who want to use PATH for building inclusive school and other community systems. Families. Advocacy groups.

Produced by Inclusion Press with Parashoot Productions

Afrikan Cannot Modernize While using the English Language eBook

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Wangoola-Wangoola Ndawula is the Nabyama and Founder of the Uganda-based Mpambo Afrikan Multiverslty, a community-based centre for mother-tongue higher learning and the advancement of indigenous knowledge, ways of knowing and scholarship.

In this essay he argues that mother tongue education, from kindergarten to University, can be the only basis for Afrikan countries and peoples to modernize and, in the global family of nations, once again, be a competitive and influential people. The question of language policy therefore, is a question of life and death struggle. We have to make up our mind; either to struggle to be the best slaves available on the market, or to struggle to be free; which itself raises a political-moral-practical question of monumental proportions.
He then poses and answers this strategic question; “What is better: to struggle to be free, and, in the process, if need be, die in action; or is it better to struggle to be the most competitive slave on the market, and, again, in the process, if need be, die in action, in the defence of enslavement and slavism?”

Ideas That Matter II Session Videos

Here are the Video recordings from the Ideas that Matter II Sessions on Jan 14.2021. There are four recordings: Full Recording: Ideas that Matter II – Jan 14. 2021 AND Three Breakout sessions included in the Ideas that Matter II The Power of Social Banking with the Intangible Currencies – De’Amon Harges Threshold 4 Change […]

Threshold 4 Change – Beth Gallagher, Kirk Hinkleman & Joe Donofrio

Beginning on Jan.14, 2021 the Virtual Toronto Summer Institute (VTSI) Ideas that Matter 2.0 featured a presentation and a ‘breakout’ session exploring their approach to Threshold 4 Change. These sessions were offered by Beth Gallagher, Kirk Hinkleman and Joe Donofrio. On Feb 4 they continued this exploration in a two hour workshop. In times of […]

Judith Snow

JUDITH SNOW October 29, 1949 – May 31, 2015 The colours of Judith Snow were vibrant, flagrant, unabashedly in the forefront of the forefront: a social inventor, a trailblazer, a relentless advocate for inclusion. She championed communities that welcome diversity, including all persons with disabilities, especially people who do not speak in voice, as full […]

Understanding Inclusion [PDF]

John O’Brien 2013 Despite its usage in the disability field for many years, there are important differences in understanding of what inclusion is, how much to value it in relation to other desirable things, and especially what it means for the future of services. The diagram on the other side of this page maps different […]

Acción para la Inclusión: CÓmo Mejorar las escuelas para Recibir a los NiÑos – eBook

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Traducido por Manuela Crespo y Carmen María Priante Bretón
Translated from the original “Action for Inclusion “

Acción para la Inclusión: CÓMO MEJORAR LAS ESCUELAS PARA RECIBIR A LOS NIÑOS CON NECESIDADES ESPECIALES EN AULAS REGULARES

This book finally available in Spanish – with the original English in the second half of the book. “A down to earth blueprint of what 21st century education should be doing for all kids in regular classrooms. Modest but powerful strategies for making it happen in a jargon-free, step-by-step book.” It describes the Circle of Friends exercise, and the MAPS (Making Action Plans) process in detail. This book is being used by school systems around the globe. It is perfect for conferences and courses. It is short and filled with actual tips on how to develop an action plan (MAP) for including any child at risk of exclusion. It is not limited to any one label, but applies to children at risk at any age. Although it focuses on elementary and middle school children, the process is transferable to high school students and adults.

ISBN – pdf – 978-1-987935-12-7
ISBN – ebook – 978-1-987935-05-9

Jessica Bolduc – 4R’s Youth Movement

Aanii boozhoo! My name is Jessica, and I am Anishinaabe-French from the Batchewana First Nation. I am privileged to be the Executive Director of the 4Rs Youth Movement, working alongside leaders who are creating capacities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people to come together to cultivate understanding and action in support of a type of […]

Great Questions and the Art of Portraiture – John O’Brien

Download: Great Questions & the Art of Portraiture ABSTRACT: Great Questions are a challenge to possibilities. A practitioner of person-centered planning who wanted to add the skills and roles of the portraitist to her repertoire would need to build relationships with people and their families and allies based on commitment to a common project that […]

Toronto Summer Institute (Virtual) Emergent AGENDA – July 12-14

Welcome to the Virtual Toronto Summer Institute (VTSI) In Preparation… • Download your TSI Journal • Download your DRAFT Participant Directory and instructions A Sample of the directory is attached – awaiting your content including a head shot to be shared • Briefing Notes on how to Work in Zoom to get to/and out of […]

Hope Restored with PATH – Glenn Cochrane

Hope Restored with PATH Glenn CochraneGang Prevention CoordinatorWinnipeg, Manitoba I decided I wanted to do something that truly might be in the area of prevention, not wait until kids were in trouble but get to them early. I phoned the principal of a downtown Winnipeg core area school (Dufferin School) where I knew the principal, […]

AFTER TSI – Staying in Touch

AFTER TSI – Staying in Touch TSI Recordings: these will take a little time. You will be notified when they are available on line. Stay connected to Inclusion Press• Sign Up for our Newsletter• Like Our Facebook page – See posts, photos and more on Facebook.• Follow Our Twitter feed – The latest Tweets from […]

Inclusion News

Our History Inclusion News was an occasional newspaper/journal we published because it seemed like a good idea – and people seemed to love it.   Inclusion News began as a publication of the Centre for Integrated Education and Community (the original name of the Marsha Forest Centre).  We printed and mailed up to 70,000 copies of […]

With a Little Help from My Friends – Marsha Forest

This vintage video – in three parts – demonstrates the work of including all students in the school system – in regular classrooms. Interviews with faculty, students – and the MAPS process in action make this video as relevant today as it was in 1988 when it was filmed with Marsha Forest, Fr. Patrick Mackan,Judith […]

MAPs and PATHs – A Family Perspective

MAPs and PATHsA Family Perspective by Bryn and Clark Fortune As often happens, unexpected blessings occur when we step out and try new things. As a result of a professionally motivated educational experience, our family wound up with a fresh look at ourselves in an affirming, revealing process called a MAP.Bryn is the director of […]

How Do We Know Our Community? [PDF]

2016 John O’Brien & Beth Mount John O’Brien and Beth Mount The way we know our community is fateful for our capacity to support people at risk of marginalization to occupy contributing social roles and develop diverse, good relationships. This framework visualizes a person with DD, their allies and partners as if they form a […]

Ethics of Possibility [PDF]

John O’Brien 2005 Ethics is the quest of less and less trivial modes of human relatedness. –Herbert McCabe (1968/2003) When people count on personal assistants to make it through their day, what is possible for them depends to an important extent on the way those assistants show up in their lives. Assistants can show up […]

Numbers & Faces – Ethics of Person Centered Planning [PDF]

John O’Brien 2002 – Retardation The Kingdom of Number is all boundaries Which may be beautiful and must be true; To ask if it is big or small proclaims one The sort of lover who should stick to faces… – W. H. Auden The Contradiction Between Service Values and Service Capacity Person-centered planning challenges the […]

When Spider Webs Unite – Bundle

$45.00

Shafik Asante was an African American civil rights organizer in Philadelphia.  He was a force and a challenge to systems and our values.  If you need inspiration about possibility – get this bundle including Shafik’s book and a DVD showing Shafik on the fly – in all his glory and wisdom.

Community Engagement & Individual Funding [PDF]

Community EngagementA Necessary Condition for Self-Determination and Individual Funding John O’Brien 1999 Contents The call for change ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 2 Five trends that shape the strategy ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Opposition to current policy and advocacy for individualized funding ……………………………………. 3 Desire to change faulty assumptions and the backward policies that result ………………………………. 3 Competing understandings of scarcity […]