How to Ask Better Community Questions: It’s as Easy as ABCD with Cormac Russell

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Why our unexpressed gifts can do tremendous harm.
How an institutionalized five-year-old changed Cormac’s life direction.
Why community makes a better verb than a noun.
How to get past the sense that someone’s either trying to sell you something or sell you out.
The two words that simply summarize Asset-Based Community Development.
How to have conversations that respect the past and present, but aren’t held captive by either.
When to show up as a host or guest in someone’s life.
How to ask better questions about and within your communities.
Why consumer culture is actually an anti-culture.
Why emphasizing discoverables is better than focusing on deliverables.
How Asset-Based Community Driven Efforts may be the next evolution of ABCD.

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[03:17] How I think about community and my sense of belonging
[12:41] Cormac’s seeds of awesomeness
[19:23] How being an orphan informs Cormac’s ABCD work
[24:23] How Cormac’s background in psychology and “community care” led him to ABCD
[29:31] The essence of ABCD
[33:30] Community as a verb, not a noun
[39:38] The tension between trust and privacy
[52:02] The limits of ABCD and discoverables over deliverables