Introduction to Organising across Sameness and DifferenceIn what ways is democracy and community organising as a practice of negotiating the tension between sameness and difference?Jan 62Jan 62
Scaling Change — On making change big and smallThis article was first published in 2021, in the Australian literary publication Griffith Review, edition 73: Hey Utopia.Dec 28, 2023Dec 28, 2023
A report from a remarkable workshop about Mental Health and NeurodiversityOn 12 October the Sydney Alliance and Sydney Policy Lab ran a workshop called ‘You Can’t Ask That’ about Mental Health and Neurodiversity…Oct 27, 2022Oct 27, 2022
Our biggest obstacle to mental health is something we can change togetherThis is the full-text of a speech I gave to a Workshop on Mental Health and Neurodiversity held by the Sydney Alliance. The Sydney Alliance…Oct 25, 2022Oct 25, 2022
Scale is the most confusing word in social changeScale is faddishly desired but deeply confusing, this piece identifies four distinct strategies to scale change based on speed and place.Oct 18, 2022Oct 18, 2022
Organising and the other forms of urban people powerThis article will appear in an upcoming book about Community Organising, published in GermanyMay 2, 2022May 2, 2022
Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illnessThis blog was delivered as a speech to the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney on 31 March 2022.Mar 31, 20221Mar 31, 20221
The Alinsky organising tradition and questions of interest and identityExploring how community organising came to understand self-interest and how that might help it engage with understandings of identity.Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
The public dimensions of mental illnessFive provocations for rethinking how we understand mental illness, from a community organiser who lives with bipolar disorder.Jan 5, 2022Jan 5, 2022
Can community organising help us co-design? The origins of a new relational methodAmanda Tattersall & Marc StearsNov 18, 2021Nov 18, 2021