Australian Study Circles Network
June 22, 2009
The Augustine Centre and Borderlands Co-operative – partner in the Oases Masters Program in Hawthorn, Melbourne – will host a July workshop with Dr Caresse Cranwell – Transformative Activism – Exploring the links between self-awareness, inter-personal capacity and eco-social transformation. […]
May 30, 2009
After several years of a worthy effort at community engagement WHY is the Victorian Government taking such a heavy-handed non-communicative approach to merging two hard-working community-based groups achieving heaps ‘on the smell of an oily rag’! The Groups Reconciliation Victoria […]
May 18, 2009
After wondering for some years why relocalisation and Transition Towns seem to cluster in Queensland I hear parts of Geelong are now involved AND that the Municipal Association Vic (MAV) is holding a public meeting to investigate the ‘building of […]
April 8, 2009
A reminder about the upcoming one day Workshop in Melbourne, 17 April, on preparing for a round of community wide study circles – facilitated by Dr Mark Brophy, Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN) and Sally Thompson, ACE (Adult Community Education) […]
March 11, 2009
Today The Age reports that the Victorian Government will put $100m towards a solar energy plant condemned by some of its own experts as probably doing nothing to encourage and increase the take-up of solar panels – unlike the 10 […]
February 25, 2009
Interested in community wide dialogue? The Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN) is conducting a one day workshop on how to organise your own Community Wide Study Circle Program in April this year. About The Organisational Clinic The goals of this […]
February 1, 2009
After Friday’s ‘meltingly successful’ 45.1 degree training day for Community-Wide Study Circle facilitators at Melbourne’s Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre, I was interested to read follow-up news of the diverse group that had travelled from country Victoria, Canberra and […]
December 23, 2008
The Australian Study Circles Network (ASCN), City of Hobsons Bay and Altona Meadows Library and Learning Centre is providing a one day workshop ‘Introduction to Community Wide Study Circle Program Facilitation’ run by Dr Mark Brophy and Mary Brennan – […]
December 14, 2008
What does ‘community-wide dialogue‘ or a ‘cooperative conversation‘ have to do with: 1.The rift between the Pat Dodson and the Warren Mundine/Marcia Langton/Noel Pearson camps 2. The put down of ‘co-ops and mutuals’ by Janet Albrechtson and several grassroots commentators […]
November 25, 2008
Xris Reardon, artistic director of Third-Way Theatre, has a new show in Melbourne’s outer east. ‘Towing the Line – Distorted Perspectives’ is theatre that aims to make a difference. To me the Third-Way Theatre process sits very comfortably with community-wide […]
October 1, 2008
How DO we communicate with each other? Queenslander Ian Plowman – psychologist, social researcher and facilitator – says it is not part of our formal education for people to be taught how to listen to one another. So How Do […]
September 15, 2008
Victoria’s upcoming Agribusiness Summit will focus on the Big Issues & Opportunities Facing Agriculture. Witchmount Estate Winery, Melton, will host Day 1 and the All Seasons Resort, Bendigo, will host Day 2, on September 24 and 25. Agribusiness forums across […]