It feels good to fight and argue, but when there’s no pressure to convince others or be convinced, we listen in ways that allow us to improve our communities.

Social Proximity, Civic Practice, Art of Hosting, Practices and ProtocolsBeth SandersFebruary 13, 2024Social Habitat, Social proximity, Agreements, speaking from, city making, Art of Hosting, Civic PracticeComment

It’s All in the Cards

City making, the weaving of city building and city caring, only happens when we have a social habitat in which we choose to weave these perspectives together.

Social Proximity, Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 25, 2023Social Habitat, Social proximity, Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, city caring, city building Comments

Award-Winning Work: Edmonton City Plan

Beth and her team just won an award from the Alberta Professional Planners Institute for their public engagement work on Edmonton City Plan. The team: POPULUS Community Planning Inc., GSA, Aubin Consulting and the City of Edmonton.

My Work, Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 25, 2022Awards, Edmonton, City Plan, city makingComment

Transition-Making is Choosing Changing

When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we've made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community. And the choice, in every moment, rests with each of us. Choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing.

Community Bypassing, Art of Hosting, Civic PracticeBeth SandersAugust 31, 2022Community, Bypassing, Relationship, Conversation, Connection, Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, Transition, transition-makingComment

Transition Bypassing

We want change to happen without changing ourselves, without having to do anything differently. Yet, choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing.

Community Bypassing, Art of Hosting, Civic PracticeBeth SandersJuly 19, 2022Community, Bypassing, Relationship, Conversation, Connection, Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, TransitionComment

Community Bypassing

When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we’ve made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community.

Community Bypassing, Art of Hosting, Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 31, 2022Community, Bypassing, Relationship, Conversation, Connection, Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city makingComment

Care Out in the Open

Protection feeds my fear of other humans. Being neighbourly feeds my desire to connect with other humans

Civic PracticeBeth SandersApril 7, 2021city making, city caring, city building, neighbourly Comments

Prescribe AND Enable

In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.

Art of Hosting, Civic Practice, My WorkBeth SandersMarch 24, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city makingComment

City Making With Women

How a speaking engagement shifted from “city building for women” to “city making and women.”

Civic Practice, City MakingBeth SandersFebruary 16, 2021city making, city building, city caring Comments

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