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E29 Explicit Agreements
E29 Explicit Agreements

Agreements about how we’ll talk and relate to each other are a commitment to be responsible for the quality of our relationships.

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Civic Practice, Art of HostingBeth SandersDecember 3, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Agreements
E28 I Said YES to Evolving Professionals
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.

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Civic Practice, Art of Hosting, City MakingBeth SandersNovember 15, 2021Art of Hosting, city making, Civic Practice, work, Planning, Planners, city planning
E27 Transition Thinking Enables Community (Itch #5)
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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 28, 2021city making, Emergency, Transition, community, Transition thinking, Emergency thinking, Community, work
E26 Resilience Requires Transition (Itch #4)
E26 Resilience Requires Transition (Itch #4)

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 19, 2021Civic Practice, community, Transition, Resilience, First responder, climate, work, emergency
E25 Rescue is Not Resilience
E25 Rescue is Not Resilience

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

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 4, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making
E24 Choices to Enable Community Response-Ability (Itch #2)
E24 Choices to Enable Community Response-Ability (Itch #2)

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersSeptember 14, 2021First responder, work, community, emergency
E23 Scales of Emergency Response (Itch #1)
E23 Scales of Emergency Response (Itch #1)

I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersSeptember 2, 2021First responder, work, Civic Practice, climate, emergency
E22 Our Transportation Infrastructure Privileges People With Power
E22 Our Transportation Infrastructure Privileges People With Power

We've built transportation systems that allow the most affluent and privileged to move with ease around the city. Those will less affluence and power do not have the same choices, perhaps access to a car or even a bike. And then the question: is the infrastructure in place for people to move about the city without a car?

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Beth SandersJuly 31, 2021
E21 I Never Imagined You'd Know So Little
E21 I Never Imagined You'd Know So Little

6 questions to ask at any time in your career in Beth’s address delivered to the Master of City Planning graduates at the University of Manitoba, June 2021.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersJune 24, 2021Graduation, work
E20 Make People Visible to Each Other
E20 Make People Visible to Each Other

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.

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Art of Hosting, Civic Practice, ConversationBeth SandersJune 15, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation
E19 Regenerative City Circles
E19 Regenerative City Circles

The new diagrams we use to describe our economic, social and ecological worlds reveal connections and understanding.

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City MakingBeth SandersJune 8, 2021Nest City, Doughnut Economics
E18 Social Habitat Competencies
E18 Social Habitat Competencies

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 28, 2021Social Habitat, Relationship, APPI
E17 Cities and Citizens are Perpetually Unfinished
E17 Cities and Citizens are Perpetually Unfinished

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 21, 2021Civic Practice, Transition
E16 Fighting Is Infectious
E16 Fighting Is Infectious

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 14, 2021Heart at War, Heart at Peace, Art of Hosting, Participatory Leadership
E15 The Older Person I Want To Be
E15 The Older Person I Want To Be

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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 14, 2021Civic Practice, Third Act, Generations
E14 The City (and Humans) as Nature
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?

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Civic Practice, ConversationBeth SandersApril 22, 2021city making, Nature, Ecology
E13 Eight Ways I Engage in City Life
E13 Eight Ways I Engage in City Life

Choose when to be oblivious, a spectator or an active part of efforts to improve. (Note: You don’t have to be everything at once.)

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersApril 19, 2021community, engagement, work
E12 A Welcoming City has Transportation Choices
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.

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Civic Practice, City MakingBeth SandersApril 12, 2021city making, transportation, mobility, equity
E11 Care Out in the Open
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.

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Civic PracticeBeth SandersApril 7, 2021city making, city caring, city building
E10 Cities: A Practice of Mutual Agency
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.

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