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John McKnight

The Neighborhood as a Sacred Place

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BprBr1XVxE In his keynote talk for the Parish Collective’s Inhabit 2020 At Home Conference, John draws on insights from Walter Brueggemann and Dave Chapelle to explain how participants can turn their neighborhoods into sacred places. When John asked him what makes...
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Conversations

Reimagining Community: Conversation with Mike Butler

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An Invitation to Belonging Conversation with Mike Butler ~ August 6, 2019 About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building social innovators as their guests. For their August 6,...
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Friends & Neighbors

Abundant Community Book Study Guide

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In Kitchener, Ontario, community reinventor Jonathan Massimi once led a discussion group with city staff, eight community connectors and a neighborhood association to explore the ideas from John and Peter's book The Abundant Community. That initiative grew into an eight-week...
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Stories

Reconnecting Communities and Juvenile Offenders

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From meeting with gang leaders and asking their permission to work with their members to helping families get their shot-out windows repaired, Gary Ivory shared stories from his pioneering work with Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) in Tarrant County, Texas,...
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Conversations

Reimagining Community: Conversation with Gary Ivory

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Reconnecting Juvenile Offenders and Their Communities Conversation with Gary Ivory ~ January 16, 2019 About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their January...
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Peter Block

Reimagining Community: Gary Ivory

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John and Peter talk with nationally recognized youth advocate Gary Ivory on reimagining how to connect juvenile offenders to their communities. https://www.facebook.com/AbundantCommunity/videos/235130710704327/
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Friends & Neighbors

The Church and Proximity

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Father Joseph G. Kovitch had just been appointed the priest for St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Westerville, Ohio, when the parish came face to face with the financial realities of a dwindling congregation. A "For Sale" sign went up...
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Conversations

Restorative Practices: A Toolbox for Turbulent Times

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Conversation with Thom Allena About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their May 8, 2018 dialog they invited Thom Allena to talk...
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Friends & Neighbors

Restorative Practices

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As political and community discourse grows increasingly more divisive, many of our institutional responses to conflict and violation seem to escalate fear, estrangement and regrettably, a desire for retribution. In instances of protracted conflict and violation, where do we...
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Friends & Neighbors

A New Paradigm for Responding to Athletics and Sportsmanship Violations

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In the December 2017 issue of Athletics Administration, Thom Allena explains how restorative practices were an effective way to deal with off-field misconduct by student-athletes in a Power Five football program. Read the full article here.  
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The Neighborhood as a Sacred Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BprBr1XVxE In his keynote talk for the Parish Collective’s Inhabit 2020 At Home Conference, John draws on insights from Walter...
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Stories

When Renters Can Earn Equity

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Writing in Backyard, a newsletter exploring scalable solutions to make housing fairer, more affordable and more environmentally sustainable, Emily Nonko puts Cincinnati's Margie Spinney...
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Videos

The Six Conversations

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One. The Proposition https://youtu.be/gIj4o0ygwKk Two. The Possibility https://youtu.be/8OrOKhte7TI Three. The Promise https://youtu.be/SNn2uqyuZPU Four. The Point https://youtu.be/9rpDrJGPuW8 Copyright © 2020 Peter Block. All rights reserved. Re-posted by permission. Produced for designedlearning.com and peterblock.com by Panoptic Media, Jim Prues, Creative...
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Coming to the Stage

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Indianapolis poet and performer Januarie York read Coming to the Stage to open and close John and Peter's August 4 Conversation with DeAmon Harges....
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Conversations

The Neighborhood Is the Center

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About every six weeks for the last six years, John and Peter have hosted conversations with community-building social innovators as their guests. Their August...
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