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• Setting boundaries with a person’s time to try to combat burnout in the traditional volunteer cycle of recruit, act, burnout
• Feeling rushed or false sense of urgency in the work due to funding schedules, population or community natural rhythms (ex. Youth are available outside of school hours, professionals working during school hours)
• When is it time to move on as a person or organization�When is it time for an organization to leave and allow the community to take over rather than coming in as an external agent

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Adapted from a Training for Change template, as experienced through Decolonize First

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Notes:

• Can be the result of working in community for a long time so being able to see the path that connects the dots (event a lead to event b lead to event c over 8 years)
• Can be important for people to always be invited into the process by sharing historical knowledge so they have the entry point to start connecting dots
• Some can use the connection they have as a gatekeeping - stating that others don’t know as much as they do so they will not be able to make decisions as well as someone who does have those connections
• When an organization or role has been in a community for a long time it can be a risk to have community development as a service model (the City will just do that, that person works to do this so they will always do it) and have the risk of losing the longer term CD grassroots initiative

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Notes:

• Part of it is values alignment. Was it true value alignment from the beginning or was it just close enough? If it was true you could probably do it for a very long time.
• Articulating or recognizing small wins which if you have been in the role for perpetuity can see in different ways.
• There should be some room for adaptability - how you started doesn't necessarily mean how you'll be doing it later, and the wins from the past might look different from wins of the future
• When a connection happens and the excitement of the possibility is there.
• Partnership can be a key motivator - seeing collaboration come together

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Notes:

• It’s really hard to measure success, and what that even that means! And what the community vs funders vs the orgs sees success sometimes is different!
• Community workers encourage people to mix, not just sit and chat with friends they have known for decades!

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Connecting the dots

What’s my role

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Resources / Information to Share

Quote from adrienne maree brown�“Do you already know that your existence--who and how you are--is in and of itself a contribution to the people and place around you? Not after or because you do some particular thing, but simply the miracle of your life. And that the people around you, and the place(s), have contributions as well? Do you understand that your quality of life and your survival are tied to how authentic and generous the connections are between you and the people and place you live with and in?

Are you actively practicing generosity and vulnerability in order to make the connections between you and others clear, open, available, durable? Generosity here means giving of what you have without strings or expectations attached. Vulnerability means showing your needs.” - Emergent Strategy

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• Youth Employment Centre is hosting a hiring event at the end of September. Youth have to be registered with us to be invited to the event: some of the employers include Old Navy, Starbucks, Moores, Fed Ex Mc Donalds, etc
• Visit with seniors in my community and some contacts from elsewhere. Always try to share some ideas they can use to help with their own aging in place. Example of community knowledge building and spreading access to community knowledge.

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Upcoming CDLI Gatherings

Next gathering: Mon, Aug 28, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Email cdli@caryacalgary.ca to join!

Next gathering: Tues, August 15, 3:30 - 6:30 p.m. in person! Email cdli@caryacalgary.ca to join!

Next gathering: Wed, Oct 11, 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.�On Zoom - see you there!

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