by landscapewanderer | Feb 19, 2021 | Participation and Facilitation, Working in Sustainable Development
The downside of virtual meetings The COVID lockdowns and travel restrictions have forced people to make more use of virtual meeting technologies. People are organizing workshops, meetings and other kinds of interactions that in the past would have only happened by...
by landscapewanderer | Dec 20, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation, Research and Science
In the international development and global conservation worlds, there is a preoccupation with scaling. Doing something positive in a single community is nice, so the thinking goes, but can never be enough. If we identify something that makes one community, or one...
by landscapewanderer | Nov 19, 2020 | Participation and Facilitation, Values
Motherhood, participatory approaches and apple pie. I’m on the board of an organization that is in the midst of some soul searching about its role in natural resource management, land rights, landscape approaches, and community-based conservation. These are things...
by landscapewanderer | Apr 4, 2020 | Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation, Spirituality
The nature-religion connection Those of us working toward sustainable landscapes should be ready, in fact should actively seek out, to engage with religion. For huge numbers of people, religion frames what life is about and for and what is important. It guides how...
by landscapewanderer | Feb 19, 2020 | Land Governance, Landscape Approaches, Participation and Facilitation
I never imagined that this man who had brought his herd into this other community’s pastures and flouted the community’s grazing rules, and whose actions had disrupted our training workshop would become a champion of our approach. The Interrupted Workshop I had...
by landscapewanderer | Jan 19, 2020 | Environmentalism, Ontology, Participation and Facilitation
Trust in God AND tether your camel! In one version of the story behind this Middle Eastern proverb, which is sometimes attributed to the Prophet himself, two Bedouin herders get into an argument, one claiming that reality is harsh and that people have to take care of...
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