Community Animation

Community Animation is a process designed to stimulate desired action within a community It is a facilitated process allowing a community to reflect upon and deliberately create a sense of identity, time, purpose, meaning and trajectory. Our initial enquiry phase involves key roleplayers in face-to-face interviews and focus groups.

Using outputs from the interviews and focus groups, we design a change and community animation calendar that engages the relevant aspects of transition in a predictable, phased manner along with members of the community. The result of this participation is a design for the future that has buy-in and support from key community members and stakeholders.

To animate the community the following is required:

  • Goals that all members of the community can agree upon and wish to achieve
  • A form of leadership that the community can trust and look to achieve the desired goals
  • A narrative of origins, the issues/opportunities/dangers and the story of a desired “promised land”
  • A space in which to meet and engage
  • A plan of what needs to be done, by whom, by when and what support is required.
  • Goals, Rules, Roles, Values, Rituals, Resources, Language and a unique style

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