"Learning to look at your community through the eyes of what it has, not what it does not have."Is this a revelation, something that is new to the field of urban planning, community building? It is not. However it is a forgotten application, a tool that transforms how a resident of a neighborhood or community beset with ideas and lessons learned that do not value the "unseen capital" that every community in any city has, regardless of economic class or affluence.
And in the hands of a fantastic community educator, trainer, and artist, Merica Whitehall, Assistant Director of Childrens Literacy Project/Treehouse Tutoring Corps located at the School of Educational Leadership at Seattle University, we worked to shift our thinking around what value a community holds and can use for leverage and activation of solutions to its needs.
The ABCD exercise was a challenge for the teens, and for some of the adults. It was enlightening and hopefully gave the youth some ideas about seeing themselves as valuable and part of the capital of their community. More on the ABCD soon...
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