Building sense of ownership as source of motivation among stakeholders

Building-blocks-of-ownership

By Madelon Eelderink People often ask me, “How do I get people motivated to participate in my project?” “How do I create support?” I wish I could give them a magical answer, one like, “oh just do this and then you’ll have them. Delightful, it seems to me. Unfortunately, the reality is different. First of […]

How Participatory Action Research makes a difference

Top-down versus community up work

Nederlands, graag! “Madelon, what exactly is the difference between Participatory Action Research and other projects we do at the municipality?” Sometimes you get those questions that you can get hell-bent on! I was at a get-together when an employee of Gemeente Utrecht asked me that question. I took a deep breath and began my story, […]

Why people argue… And how it can be different

Perspectives on a tree

In het Nederlands, graag! So many people, so many perspectives…. When dealing with complex social problems, we are often unaware of the enormous number of different ways of looking at the problem. Often we have a vague idea, such as “Pete probably just wants to make more money,” but that is often all. And then […]

From raised eyebrows and primal sounds to a gigantic network

10 years SevenSenses

Voor Nederlands klik hier My goodness… SevenSenses is already 10 years old! I can’t escape the tendency to let some reflections run through my head. Then images pop up of the start of SevenSenses in 2013, with that man at the Chamber of Commerce who looked at me with a raised eyebrow while I stutteringly […]

Message to COP27 Egypt – 2022 Climate Conference

Message to COP27 Egypt – 2022 Climate Conference

By Evert Jan van Hasselt Climate change is not a threat to this planet. This planet will survive, one way or another. Climate change is our planet’s way of cleansing itself from the devastating effect the human species has on this planet. Climate change is a threat to the human species. The only way we […]

Marieke vertelt: participatief actieonderzoek in Rijnhuizen

Olifant visualisatie

Door Marieke de Jong Marieke de Jong deed mee aan het PAR Practitioners Programma en voert onder begeleiding van SevenSenses samen met haar collega’s van Raedelijn -Karlijn van Kats, Denise Filippo en Youssra al Gani- uit in de wijk Rijnhuizen in Nieuwegein. “Rijnhuizen is een nieuwe woonwijk in Nieuwegein. Een voormalig bedrijventerrein dat langzaam transformeert. […]

Online Participatief Actieonderzoek: doen of niet doen?!

Online PAO gemeente Eijsden-Margraten, Project Werken 3.0.

Kunnen we -in deze bizarre corona tijd- van mensen verwachten dat zij zonder elkaar fysiek te zien, met elkaar positieve verandering in gang zetten? Dat heb ik me vorig jaar meermalen afgevraagd. Ik heb altijd actieonderzoek gedaan in fysieke settings, dus bij en met mensen, live. Letterlijk de koppen bij elkaar steken en brainstormen over […]