Cormac Russell
cormacrussell.bsky.social
Cormac Russell
@cormacrussell.bsky.social
I animate communities & support professionals/orgs working in citizen space. Books include: The Connected Community, and Rekindlling Democracy. More here: https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/
It is not enough to discover assets; we must connect those assets with one another in new ways that multiply their contribution, power, equity and influence. #abcd
July 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Join us on May 14 at 4.00 p.m. (London) for a free webinar event focused on Child Welfare through a Community-Centred Lens with Dr. Bruce Perry, Cormac Russell and moderated by Melissa T. Merrick, President and CEO of Stop Child Abuse America. Click here to register: lnkd.in/gTFq7sQR
April 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I am very excited to facilitate this workshop in Singapore on May 28-29, 2025. Titled "Social Prescribing Reimagined: An Asset-Based Community Development Perspective," this workshop offers a chance to move beyond traditional models, and delve into deeper practices as community animators. #ABCD
March 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Join us online, May 14 at 4 PM London time for a conversation about child welfare from a community-centered perspective. We’ll be joined by Dr. Bruce Perry, Melissa Merrick, Anthony Morrow & many others.

*Save the date:* May 14 at 4:00 PM (London). Free event. Joining Instructions coming soon
March 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Participation has two meanings: “partake of” & “partake in”. We need both in the right balance otherwise we end up over-consuming scarce resources instead of co-creating abundance. We wrote TheConnected.Community to promote the value of partaking in associational life.
March 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Living well means coming to our available senses again and again. Across the community, those that can, will:

*Make the invisible visible.

*Bring the out of touch into reach.

*Heed the unheard.

*Feel through the numbness.

*Smell the hidden aromas.

#ConnectedCommunity
March 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I’m excited to announce that I will facilitate another open course, "Moving Towards Community-Centered Practice: An Introduction to ABCD, " which will begin on April 29th.

For further details and to book a place on the course, please click here: lnkd.in/eRt33F3y
March 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Local organizations, -embedded within a community, small scale, staffed by local ppl; where the vision is cocreated & the effort is shared-provide a critical & irreplaceable vector for *care* & support in & by the community. Scale matters, small & local is the alternative future.
March 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy to share our latest *The Connected Community* podcast. In this episode we ask: What are Communities for?

www.tcc.show/2216821/epis...
March 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Last wk was a lot of fun with trips to London to speak at the Royal Society of Medicine conference & Edinburgh for the Community Renewal Trust conference. This wk I’m in Bristol for an ABCD Train the Trainer course & then Pontypridd in Wales to meet the Trivallis board & strategic partners. #ABCD
February 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I enjoyed spending last wk in London training the new Help for Heroes (the UK’s most prominent veterans charity) Community Builders team. I return to London 2dy to address the Royal Society of Medicine's annual conference. Together we’re: Shifting the health narrative towards collective flourishing.
January 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
THE 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY CONNECTED PEOPLE
January 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM