The Vision -
A healthy, peaceful world
The Quest
Engaging and empowering social innovation with tools and practices for collaboration,
participatory governance, and unity in healthy communities, organizations, and systems.
We can’t solve problems from the same way of thinking that created them.
The way we organize, run meetings, communicate, and make decisions must fit with what we aim to do.
The Quest
Engaging and empowering social innovation
with tools and practices for collaboration,
participatory governance, and unity in healthy
communities, organizations, and systems.
participatory governance, and unity in healthy
communities, organizations, and systems.
Engaging and empowering social innovation with tools and practices for collaboration, participatory governance, and unity in healthy communities, organizations, and systems.
"We shape our tools, then our tools shape us". Marshall McLuhan, philosopher, media analyst, Winnipegger. I love this quote for a few reasons. First because it connects the process and the outcome, the “what” and the “how”, like community development does, like I do. Plus, it speaks to the invisible impact of our digital age on us as humans, and our connection to the natural world.
This image of the basket with a shell, a stone, a pinecone and a feather also have meaning as these are tools I use in my workshop on healthy communities. These natural objects are about strengthening our connection through our community building work to each other and the natural world. The feather represents our spiritual well- being, the stone our mental or cognitive well-being, the pinecone our physical well-being and the shell our emotional well-being. The health wheel is foundational taking us from the personal, to community and the systemic.
Working together we can come out of our shell using social innovation and community work, we try not to be too hardheaded, nor flighty, nor spread ourselves too thin, scattering ourselves like pinecones seeds in a fire. The world is on fire but our evolution together is the transformative cooling water.
Many teachers and leaders have had the same message: the ends must match the means.
Or we can't solve problems from the same way of thinking that created the problems.
The way we organize, run meetings, communicate, and make decisions must fit with the vision for what we aim to do.
I offer tools and techniques to ensure our 'what' and our 'how' mutually reinforce each other.
My Two Approaches
Two Approaches
Process Design & Facilitation
Community development is a beautiful thing with many tools. Often when we are working for social change we host events that neither engage people nor lead to collective action. Here are some things I can help with:
Two Approaches
Social Inovation
for Social Change
Social innovation has become like the flavour of the month, and like the term sustainable development it has many interpretations depending on your world view. Social innovation comes from the community
According to the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, based on their research into systems transformation, social innovation is ‘a new program, policy, procedure, product, process, or design that seeks to address a social problem and to ultimately shift resource and authority flows, social routines, and cultural values of the social system that created the problem in the first place
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began my career as a health educator in sport
I have a government employee, a high school guidance counsellor, a Member Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, a community development worker, and community organizer, as well as a college instructor and university contract faculty.
A healthy, peaceful world.
Many teachers and leaders have had the same message: the ends must match the means. We can’t solve problems from the same way of thinking that created the problems. The way we organize, run meetings, communicate, and make decisions must fit with what we aim to do. I offer tools and techniques to ensure our […]
I write almost everyday.
Plus former students, and community members have been encouraging me to write a blog for a while now. Time to share both my published and unpublished writing. It might be a review of a book or film, a comment on the issues of the day, or something about a recent event I have attended. Of […]
Success Stories
Hear how communities, leaders, and partners describe their experience of working together for meaningful change
I have worked with Marianne on worker engagement for the UFCW Security Sector membership. Marianne’s straight forward and direct approach in developing our project, and her ability to collaborate with multiple organizations and stakeholders provided the results our organization was striving for. It has given us significantly increased worker engagement and awareness of labour and workplace issues for this industry. Our collaboration has also given us a solid pathway to build on for this sector or our membership. I highly recommend Marianne as a “change agent” for any engagement project. UFCW Secretary Treasurer – CLC President
I first worked with Marianne when she was an advocate at the West Central Women's Resource Centre and I was chair of their board. I have continued to connect with Marianne on various projects over the past 2 decades. I have found her to be very resourceful and thoughtful. Marianne has a great ability to analyze situations and offer creative solutions. Klinic - Community Health Outreach Worker
The Community Development program was the best experience of all my schooling. There was historical context, plus applied skills. It brought all my skills together in a tangible way that could be applied in the community. The course Working Across Differences, taught by Marianne Cerilli, had a big impact on me. We unpacked all the assumptions we learn over our lives. It was about trying to understand other cultures, oppression, and colonization. It pushed me toward a genealogy search. Graduate RRC CD/CED Program
I have worked with Marianne on worker engagement for the UFCW Security Sector membership. Marianne’s straight forward and direct approach in developing our project, and her ability to collaborate with multiple organizations and stakeholders provided the results our organization was striving for. It has given us significantly increased worker engagement and awareness of labour and workplace issues for this industry. Our collaboration has also given us a solid pathway to build on for this sector or our membership. I highly recommend Marianne as a “change agent” for any engagement project. UFCW Secretary Treasurer – CLC President
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