Jon Massimi

Sold out! We are counting down the days to our trip to Canada where we will be working with groups in Toronto. Port Hope and then our Connected Community course in Niagara-on-the-Lake. #ABCD #ABCDCanada #theconnectedcommunity #nurturedevelopment

Sold out! We are counting down the days to our trip to Canada where we will be working with groups in Toronto. Port Hope and then our Connected Community course in Niagara-on-the-Lake. #ABCD #ABCDCanada #theconnectedcommunity #nurturedevelopment

Kitchener, your public-access food plants have all been planted! Let the communal growing season commence! This is my food. This is your food. This is our food. 🤎🌱✨

@robdeutschmann This is awesome.

Let the magic begin.

We are on the count down to our first Connected Community course, taking place in Ontario, Canada. The closing date for registrations is July 4th. Only three places remain so book quickly if you want to join us! Details here: communityrenewal.learnworlds.com/course/connect…

@bangishimo_ Are you sure this is at City Hall? I don’t see leadership taking selfies with it.

@freighttraintri @bangishimo_ @CityKitchener @SixNationsGR Well that’s just sad

@jonforfive @bangishimo_ @CityKitchener @SixNationsGR ....yes

@freighttraintri @bangishimo_ @CityKitchener @SixNationsGR Did the “protectionist land owners”donate to the campaigns of current leadership compromising objectivity?

@jonforfive @bangishimo_ @CityKitchener @SixNationsGR Better than honouring the protectionist land owners

Come join *The Connected Community experience* in Niagara-by-the-Lake, Canada. This is a hybrid training experience that starts online after which we all meet in Niagara for an immersive learning experience on July 26-27. Hope to see you there👇 communityrenewal.learnworlds.com/course/connect…

Learning Teams, Learning from Communities – Humanistic Systems - how #ABCD can support group life within organisations -⁦@StevenShorrock⁩ reflecting on our work together and his research into Asset-Based Community Development👇 humanisticsystems.com/2019/01/13/lea…

In getting alongside communities the challenge is not to pre-script the conversation. Here are some tips we can follow. 1. Don’t pretend to know, ask. 2. Don’t assume to know, ask. 3. Don’t offer answers, ask; then.... 4. Don’t talk, listen...

@bangishimo_ Agreed! Even more annoying is when they add the “t-shirt over the dress shirt” at an event for the photo op.

@Scott__Davey @BeyondHousingWR @MennoHomes Indwell is doing some cool stuff. Also, some church led projects have happened in Waterloo. indwell.ca/st-marks-place

@jonforfive @BeyondHousingWR (formerly @MennoHomes) did an amazing project on institutional land here (in my Ward) in Bridgeport. Would love to see that template copied... especially now that we have a certified supply crisis.

Kitchener will continue to do our part with our land inventory to help build #AffordableHousing... but is anyone else noticing a LOT of underutilized lands owned by schools & religious institutions?

Tonight at 8pm. Give me and @CormacRussell a listen Ontario

@bangishimo_ @CityKitchener As a team is shouldn’t be under another department, rather, the Director should be part of the senior leadership team reporting directly to the CAO. It will free the work from these internal games that are being played.

What comes to mind when I hear local leaders, institutions and systems speaking about “upstream approaches” youtu.be/9rIQ-hm0Fv4 #kitchener #waterloo #waterlooregion

@bangishimo_ Wow. Unreal.

@bangishimo_ This is the pattern, BUT not a lot of movement in the top tiers of City Staff. That tells you a lot.