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Manor Park residents recently gathered to meet their neighbours and to put their heads together to think about the upcoming community forum summer event. The Council invited us to run the whole evening Conflict and Change style and so it was a meeting with a difference for the 22 people who turned up on the night! On top of this were 8 Community Conversation facilitators and 3 council officers.
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The Community Initiatives Network is part Conflict and Change Community Development work to create a Forum for individuals/ groups/organisations involved in bridge building work across faith/ communities. The next meeting of the Network is on September 21st, 10am to 12 noon at Kitchen table Café, 292b Barking Road, East Ham, E6 2 BA. If you are interested in joining this Network please contact Sarjoh on 020 8552 2050/ sarjoh@conflictand change.co.uk |
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On 15th June, 2010 members of the Community Initiatives Network met for the fourth time at the Kitchen Table Café in East Ham. The aim of the Network is to bring together community and faith based projects and initiatives which are building trust and community spirit and to help share good practice and offer support and resources to each other.
 Our Children and Young People’s team have recently run valuing diversity sessions with the year 4 classes and Louisa James, learning mentor and family worker, invited us to run a community conversation in her Thursday parent group. The aim of this was to help with the bridge building between parents. At this meeting there were 11 culturally diverse mothers from four different religions.
Tallat (Muslim Mediation Service) and Ros (Community Conversations) got the parents thinking together about some questions. Everyone joined in and spoke from the heart - something we pretty much guarantee in Community Conversations! They all also joined in the various games led by Louisa, many of which the children also play as part of the valuing diversity sessions: sun shines on, zip/zap/zop and name-and-action. |
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Anne Jones and Tracy Cole from Merton & Sutton Mediation came to visit Conflict and Change and learn about how we work. They were particularly interested in Community Conversations and ways they could combine this model with the mediation skills they already use in they work. Read more about this and other consultations At Conflict & Change we believe that agencies like Mediation Services which already have staff and volunteers with conflict resolution skills are ideally placed to use community conversations to widen their repertoire of bridge building methods in their community. That is why we are offering a 2 day training on the process of running Community Conversations based on what we have learned from our experiences. The training will take place in September 2010 and participation is free of charge. Find more information here. |
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