“New Cards” – Community Engagement Podcast (36)
It is highly possible for citizens to discuss their way into solutions. But that’s not how the political process works. There you have...
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Community Engagement Podcast
By Glen Pearson
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20 of 36 episodes“From Interests to Interest” – Community Engagement Podcast (35)
To create meaningful dialogue, good citizens display empathy more than emphasis. To understand and respect where the other person is coming...
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Expressions of Interest – Citizen Engagement Podcast (34)
True dialogue can begin with positions, but it should end in understanding. “Before the tongue can speak, it must lose the power to wo...
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A Life More Important Than Words – Citizen Engagement Podcast (33)
The genius of democracy is not how right, or even how smart we are. It is how open we are to find compromise that will permit us to move ahe...
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“Public Dialogue: Not” – Community Engagement Podcast (32)
Just two weeks left in these podcasts, but this is an important one. What happens if we get a chance to build an effective democracy as citi...
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Thoughts on Citizen Engagement (31)
Political dysfunction has resulted in numerous efforts at citizen engagement across the board. Yet a sincere questions remains: are citizens...
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The Call is Ours – Citizen Engagement Podcast (30)
It’s amazing that politics has so few referees. In times past it worked because there was a certain sense of nobility, respect, and co...
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We Are What We Affect – Community Engagement Podcast (29)
How we respond to developments is often predicated by how we were heard. Children learn early and instinctively that if they express an emot...
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The Language of Movement – Community Engagement Podcast (28)
A collective purpose or elite agendas. London, Ontario’s large citizen engagement initiative, ReThink London, will end up with one or...
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Democracy in Reverse – Community Engagement Podcast (27)
How is it that Canada – so well-respected for its peaceable efforts around the world – is now failing to bring peace to its own...
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“False Options” – Community Engagement Podcast (26)
Great citizens don’t latch out and grab onto rigid ideologies that bring on political warfare. Great politicians don’t either. N...
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“Idiots” – Community Engagement Podcast (25)
If citizens check out of the political process, then it becomes increasingly easy for governments to do as they wish. We all know that. And...
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“Catching Up To History” – Community Engagement Podcast (24)
For millennia people have regarded history as a linear event – moving forward at a steady pace over the years. But our present generat...
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“Smashing Time” – Community Engagement Podcast (23)
Political policies in the modern era have turned pitting the different generations – Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y –...
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Bar Code Generation (22)
We are living in age where we neglect public duties in favour of private delights. It comes commensurate with the great shift of our generat...
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“Old Before Their Time” – Community Engagement Podcast (21)
About 85% of the world’s youth live in developing nations – and they are growing restless, frustrated at the lack of opportunity...
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“Young At Heart Again” – Community Engagement Podcast (20)
1967 was not just our 100th birthday as a nation; it was the year Canada came out on the world stage looking young and vibrant. The governme...
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“Boomer Redux” – Community Engagement Podcast (19)
Call it the “grey tsunami”. It’s about ready to wash over our communities, as within the next decade a quarter of our popu...
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“The Unlit Torch” – Community Engagement Podcast (18)
In a time of diminishing returns, nothing seems sure anymore. Where older generations took less for themselves in order to pass on more oppo...
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“We Ruined It” – Community Engagement Podcast (17)
Our communities will be as successful as they will be at transferring responsibilities and opportunities to the next generation of citizens....
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