Community Engagement Podcast
1) “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 an agenda and people must dialogue along those lines or the...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) “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 from is one of the hallmarks of civil society – a trai...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) 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 wound,” said an old philosopher, and we need that insigh...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) 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 ahead as a citizenry. Our present democratic state is mired in ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) “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 citizens and no one shows up? Sad to say, this is repeatedly occ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) 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 mature enough to handle that responsibility? The answer to ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) 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 cooperation among politicians and citizens. No more. As citize...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) 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 emotion that gets a quick and positive response for their caregi...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) 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 the other of these outcomes. It is a city looking for a new ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) 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 political order? And why is it that citizens, recognizing th...Show More
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