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.

E45 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.

E37 The Agony of Conversation

How do you design a public meeting when you believe that everyone has something to say, not just the vocal few?

E36 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.

E35 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.

E34 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.

E28 I Said YES to Evolving Professionals

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.

E27 Transition Thinking Enables Community (Itch #5)

Community has a vital role to play when emergencies arise: to enable transition from what was to what could be.

E25 Rescue is Not Resilience

Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can’t do for themselves (and wants).

Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 4, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making

E14 The City (and Humans) as Nature

Beth Sanders and Dustin Bajer celebrate Earth Week with a conversation about how the city habitats we create for ourselves make ecological contributions to our planet, Earth. What happens when we think of cities as a part of nature or even a product of nature? What happens when we think about urban agriculture and food forests, and urban tree nurseries in the city?

Civic Practice, ConversationBeth SandersApril 22, 2021city making, Nature, Ecology

E12 A Welcoming City has Transportation Choices

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.

Civic Practice, City MakingBeth SandersApril 12, 2021city making, transportation, mobility, equity

E11 Care Out in the Open

The opposite of lockdown behaviour, which has us operating from fear and insecurity, is connection and relationship. Instead of withdrawing from community life, we contribute; we 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

E10 Cities: A Practice of Mutual Agency

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.

Civic PracticeBeth SandersApril 5, 2021city making, mutual agency, work

E8 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.

Civic PracticeBeth SandersMarch 25, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making

E7 Stories of the City

Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore heritage, health, hibernation and the creation of community that learns together.

Civic Practice, City MakingBeth SandersMarch 18, 2021Story, city making, city caring, diversity and inclusion

E1 City Making with Women

City Practice, City MakingBeth SandersFebruary 19, 2021city making, city building, city caring

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