FRIDAY 16 TH JANUARY 2015 Class 3: Community Interventions Management Lesotho

Today’s Class Defining Community Development Sustainable Development Practicing Listening Skills How to build trust in a group Using the technology for this course Importance of principles, process, procedures in Community Work

Thinking about “A Good Community” Activity 1 facilitated by Dominic Other types of activity for your work  Build a home, build a community  Me and my community  Collage – good community, bad community

The Scottish Community Development Centre Community is about Purpose: People want to live in healthy communities. These are communities in which they: feel able to be who they are have positive prospects for their future experience respect and equal and fair treatment Focus: To achieve this people want to be in a community that: creates wealth and gives everyone access to its benefits cares for all its members, when they need it, throughout their life span provides an environment that is safe and attractive enables people to express and celebrate their creativity and diverse cultures enables everyone to participate in decisions that affect their lives

Thinking about “Development” Activity 2: Dominic to Facilitate Other types of activities for your group “What do you understand by Good Development” Development and the Three Circles Development Possibilities

Simple Definition of Development Development is about people Development is about people making choices Development is about people making choices based on values Development is about people making choices based on values about the quality of life Colm Regan 80:20: Development in an Unequal World See

Sustainable Development Definition of “Sustainable Development” in The Bundtland Report: “Our Common Future” In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) produced a report called “Our Common Future”. The definition of “sustainable development” in this report is well known, widely used and often cited: "Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

Millenium Development Goals To eradicate extreme poverty and hunger To achieve universal primary education To promote gender equality and empower women To reduce child mortality To improve maternal health To combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases To ensure environmental sustainability To develop a global partnership for development

Community Development The Community Workers Cooperative understands community work/community development to be “A developmental activity composed of both a task and a process. The task is the achievement of social change linked to equality and social justice, and the process is the application of the principles of participation, empowerment and collective decision making in a structured and coordinated way”

CWC core concerns and principles of community work Redistribution – to sustain the drive to eliminate poverty and social exclusion Recognition – a recognition and a value for diversity and the full participation of minorities to ensure an equal and accessible society Core Principles Collective action –Empowerment –Social Justice – Equality & Anti-Discrimination – Participation –

LiteratureReview_2006.pdf Community Development Based on social analysis Led by facilitators Participation of target groups in design, delivery and evaluation Focused on problem solving Developmental process Empowerment approach Ongoing reflection/action Direct intervention Based on central planning Led by experts Consultation of target groups, principally at delivery and evaluation stages Focused on managing the process Directive process ‘Need to know’ approach Periodic amendment (ADM, 2002: 39)

LISTENING BUILDING TRUST Skills Development

Listening Skills: Life Stories

Other Listening Activities Listening for facts and feelings Ears Only Listening Trying to get in Listening Sentences Understanding Instructions

Listening Skills Listening skills are the ways to help you listen something more effectively One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them Listening is not just about being quiet while someone else is speaking. Listening is the process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages Listening is an active process.

Stages of Listening Process Hearing Focusing on message. Comprehending & Interpreting Analyzing and Evaluating Responding Remembering Take a look at this slide share about listening

HOW TO BUILD TRUST WITH A GROUP Key Skills: Building Trust

Trust building exercises: Freire River of Life Past – Present – Future Tree of Life Potato Exercise Building Unity Across Age, Ethnicity, Sex, Class, Sexual Orientation etc

Assignment 1 Please go to my website globalcitizencontactpoint.com Register as a member Join the Lesotho Class Join the Lesotho Forum In the Forum I would like you to  Introduce yourself  Write what you hope to gain from this course  Write about three points which interested you in the reading in your hand-out and how anything you learned in this reading or in today’s course can help you in your work  During the week be aware of how you are listening to people you work with. Write a paragraph about what you learned by just becoming aware of yourself as a listener.

References Community Worker’s Cooperative (Ireland) Lalage Bown What Do We Mean By Development Palit, NG on listening skillshttp:// Prendiville, Patricia Developing Facilitation Skills: A Handbook for Group Facilitators, Scottish Community Development Centre Development-LiteratureReview_2006.pdf All classes draw on Training for Transformation Methodology