Northampton: Margaret Ledwith with change makers 0 Reply

Pictures of an extraordinary session hosted by Northampton University DC. Margaret Ledwith, lecturer, inspired portuguese, american and UK change makers giving them some powerful tools (read: insights, knowledge and more awareness) to make a difference in the world.

Margaret is a story teller and started telling some stories about people who changed her way of living and doing things. After, she defined community development, underlined some basics, framed reality and asked some questions. Margaret deeply believes that 5-minute Dialogue may change the world and left some questions for us to experiment:

What are the daily freedoms that you assume?
What values underlie these assumptions?
How do they underpin your behaviour/actions/thinking?
Place these in a larger political context
How do these practices impact on society?
What principles and values inform these practices as ‘normal’?
Tell a different story inspired by alternative values
Does this offer insight into the way that power permeates personal lives along lines of prejudice?
How could these ‘little stories’ feed into collective narratives for change?

In the end of this DC Lecture, the groups from Lisbon and Cleveland stayed online to exchange experiences and do some networking. Portuguese elements from WACT – We Are Changing Together, started to introduce themselves to Cleveland students.