Al and Vickie attended the “From Clients to Citizens Forum” at the Coady International Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, back in July 2009 and enjoyed John McKnight's opening remarks so much we thought we should share them with the Plan Institute online community.
The whole speech is very much worth a read, but here's a teaser:
"Fortunately, at the heart of our movement are 3 universal and abundant powers. The three basics of our calling are:
Excerpt from a speech presented to the Canadian Caregivers Coalition in Ottawa, June 19 2008. To read the complete speech, please click here.
Dinner with John McKnight
From left to right: John McKnight, Al Etmanski, Ann Livingston, Margo Fryer, Malerie Meeker, Barbara Harkins, Maggie Hanson, Vickie Cammack.
Vickie and I had dinner with John McKnight when he was in Vancouver recently. He is as engaged and vital as ever. Listening to him enthusiastically describe the advance of asset based community development concepts to Europe, Australia and other parts of the world reminded me of what a profound impact these ideas have had in my life and in the development of PLAN.
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