Everyday Community Practice

Foreword: Anti-oppressive community development
Chapter 1 Introduction
Some thoughts for the beginning
Individual and collective ideas in practice
Ideas and concepts
What is in the book and how was it assembled?
How to use the book
Chapter 2 Moving beyond 'anything goes'
What does everyday practice add to professional practice?
Critical thinking as everyday community practice
Getting runs on the board-doing something
Systems knowledge and navigation
Letting things go . . . holding your breath
Chapter 3 Listening, loitering and learning
Listening for . . .
Listening to . . .
Loitering
Learning
Chapter 4 Being visible and invisible
Enabling participation
Bringing people together across difference
Organising
Chapter 5 Putting projects/work on the ground
Taking care of the internals
Taking care of the externals
Chapter 6 What change are we trying to achieve?
Modelling democratic practices
Education, particularly in relation to political systems
Skills development, particularly project management
Leadership
Conflict resolution
Chapter 7 Risk-taking and safety
Risk and innovation
Risk is decision-making
Mobilising community capacities and risk =
Making sense of risk in everyday community practice
A proviso: the role of trust and confidence
Chapter 8 Networking, partnerships and collaboration
Understand your own collaborative skill set
Cultivate a collaborative professional peer network
Support development of networks among residents and groups
Chapter 9 Taking stock, endings and renewal
What might reflection look and feel like?
Collective reflection
Reflective conversations are planned
Taking care of ourselves
Public reflection
Taking stock in other ways
Chapter 10 Research on whether we make a difference and research to make a difference
Are we making a difference?
Connecting with research
Community-based research and politics
Measuring what, for whom and why
Understanding changing measurement narratives
Reflecting on evidence and evidence-based practice
Research alliances and networks
Project evaluations
University-led research
Collaborative research projects
Collaborative research on collaboration
Picking a research strategy and method
Outsider and insider research
How will we resource the research?
Chapter 11 Why does everyday community practice matter?
Chapter 12 Exemplar projects
People experiencing mental distress and their carers
The Past & Present: A town's story
Community inclusion playgroups
The lawnmower bank: an example from Tracie
A final word
Acknowledgements
Useful resources
References
Index