We Can games adapted and used on Saturday at Stroud event in ZIP file www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3n5tk... Includes one page rules, board and cards in PDF format. Finding agency and capacity to build communal capabilities.

Just confirmed our first project. Rebuilding connections, trust and hopes in a town with a very large infrastructure project ongoing.

New stickers today for www.gatherlightaction.com

New cards explaining the Three Gatherings for rebuilding trust, connection and hope together. A deliberate sequence of being present together in the pasts, the presents and the futures using codesign, civic assembly and active hope techniques.

What are your community consultation and connection events like (honestly)?

A survey for organisations who feel they have lost the trust and hope of their customers/users/citizens. This is the tricky opening part of the work on rebuilding connections. Trust is reciprocated - does the organisation care what people think anyway?

DemocracyNext www.demnext.org/projects/sca... report on some ideas for future democratic systems and tools 1/2

The Three Gatherings method is based on extensive work in facilitation of tricky problems gatherlightaction.com/three-gather... It is rooted in the idea that people, not technologies, find actionable hopeful futures.

Pulled some old @acuity.design blog posts onto this site gatherlightaction.com/blog/ which explain both background and future hopes for this project

Human presence not artificial intelligence You can’t find meaningful connection or hope in #AI. Bring with people, you can.

www.gatherlightaction.com - using human presence to regain hope and agency.

Our new website is available now This is a new project that combines work done in codesign, civic assemblies and community hope by @acuity.design. It starts with the hard stuff - the loss of trust, regrets and broken promises. gatherlightaction.com It is a start. It is about connection and hope.

Making things so as to see if they make sense. Three public meetings to face resentments, use deliberation and then imagine hopeful futures.

Using the power of people together rather than some AI to find trust and hope. Asking to help and asking for help.

Start with a hot drink… Gather Light Action Rebuilding for trust and hope in communities using Three Gatherings

Test printing some drinks mats for use when meeting and chatting

The core ideas of Gather Light Action are being present together and using light in different ways to explore past regrets, present ideas and future hopes. Three Gatherings with people. There is always a risk too: fire can hurt. We need to recognise and respect that possibility.

Bringing a few workshops and methods together from @acuity.design work on codesign, hope and civic assemblies Will upload site and more over the next week. First project soon