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Introduction to Organising across Sameness and Difference

In what ways is democracy and community organising as a practice of negotiating the tension between sameness and difference?

Jan 6

$An image of prisims refracting light.$

$An image of prisims refracting light.$

Jan 6

Scaling Change — On making change big and small

This article was first published in 2021, in the Australian literary publication Griffith Review, edition 73: Hey Utopia.

Dec 28, 2023

Scaling Change — On making change big and small

Dec 28, 2023

A report from a remarkable workshop about Mental Health and Neurodiversity

On 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, 2022

A report from a remarkable workshop about Mental Health and Neurodiversity

Oct 27, 2022

Our biggest obstacle to mental health is something we can change together

This 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, 2022

Our biggest obstacle to mental health is something we can change together

Oct 25, 2022

Scale is the most confusing word in social change

Scale is faddishly desired but deeply confusing, this piece identifies four distinct strategies to scale change based on speed and place.

Oct 18, 2022

Scale is the most confusing word in social change

Oct 18, 2022

Organising and the other forms of urban people power

This article will appear in an upcoming book about Community Organising, published in Germany

May 2, 2022

Organising and the other forms of urban people power

May 2, 2022

Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illness

This blog was delivered as a speech to the Matilda Centre at the University of Sydney on 31 March 2022.

Mar 31, 2022

Using social change thinking to transform how we think and act about mental illness

Mar 31, 2022

The Alinsky organising tradition and questions of interest and identity

Exploring how community organising came to understand self-interest and how that might help it engage with understandings of identity.

Mar 1, 2022

The Alinsky organising tradition and questions of interest and identity

Mar 1, 2022

The public dimensions of mental illness

Five provocations for rethinking how we understand mental illness, from a community organiser who lives with bipolar disorder.

Jan 5, 2022

The public dimensions of mental illness

Jan 5, 2022

Can community organising help us co-design? The origins of a new relational method

Amanda Tattersall & Marc Stears

Nov 18, 2021

Can community organising help us co-design? The origins of a new relational method

Nov 18, 2021

Amanda Tattersall

Amanda Tattersall

Associate Professor at the University of Sydney’. Helped start Sydney Alliance & GetUp. Lived experience advocate on mental health.

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