Now it's down to us to Keep Empowerment Working...

It's now a month since eighty of us packed into a buzzing conference room at Keeping Empowerment Working to think about how we measure and communicate the impact of the work that we do. The memory that has stayed with me was the strong sense of shared values that ran through the day, and the motivation that seemed to generate. I'm still delighted we chose the community-owned Southville Centre, as it's such a great example of what people can do when they work together. Thanks go to the speakers and workshop presenters who inspired and challenged us. The key points that resonated for me are:

• Simon Burall's exhortations to consult less, but to involve people more at strategic level - so we can shape the things that really matter and create the communities we want to live in - rather than simply having ever more opportunities to comment on the detail of a bigger picture that's already been agreed; and
• Peter Lipman's explanation of how appeal to the values and feelings that promote socially beneficial behaviours. 

You can see both of these again on YouTube. Simon part 1, part 2. Peter part 1, part 2.

There are links to all the conference videos, presentations, blogs the conference report and more on the Zebra website.

Let's keep the conversation going -

• What were the highlights of the day for you? 
• What's happened since? 
• How do we continue to work in ways that are genuinely empowering? 
• How do we shift to involving people at a strategic level? 
• How do we strengthen and activate the "intrinsic" values that drive community-focused action? 
• What's the place of community-led initiatives in all this?

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