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"Shaping Our Future" is for everyone interested in community development and sustainable communities. It is for small independent farmers, fishermen, foresters, and for small business people. It is for local community development groups, Regional Development Agencies, cultural groups, and for all community members who want to a build a resilient, vibrant, inclusive, and cooperative Nova Scotia.
At this event, we will be utilizing creative methods of adult education - such as Deep Democracy, Open Spaces, and Dialogue for Peaceful Change - to get us thinking "outside the box" while learning about one another's issues and building common ground.
We are also bringing in truly innovative speakers who have made a dramatic difference in their area of the world. The key note speaker is Peter Kenyon from Bank of Ideas in Australia. He has helped communities as small as 7 people turn their decline around. He is also renowned for his work engaging youth and building their leadership skills. Closer to home we have an excellent example of a rural organization that has worked with their provincial government to create policies that support and foster healthy rural areas. Claire Bolduc, Executive Director of Solidarité rurale du Québec will speak on place based policies and how dramatically different this is to the way the rest of N. America operates.
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This event is being organized by a unique partnership of Coastal Communities Network, the Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia Economic and Rural Development, Rural Research Center – NS Agricultural College, NS Policies and Priorities and the federal Rural Secretariat.
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Bâtissons notre avenir
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Un événement dynamique et stimulant destiné à faire bouger les choses,
à réfléchir profondément et à renforcer la résilience de nos communautés.
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Du 24 au 26 novembre 2010
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au Tatamagouche Centre
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Cliqueter ici pour Enregistrer
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" Bâtissons notre avenir " s'adresse à quiconque s'intéresse au développement communautaire et aux communautés durables; c'est-à-dire aux petits exploitants agricoles, pêcheurs, forestiers indépendants et aux petits entrepreneurs, ainsi qu'aux groupes de développement communautaire locaux, aux agences de développement régional, aux groupes culturels et à tous les membres de la communauté qui souhaitent bâtir une Nouvelle-Écosse résiliente, vibrante, ouverte à la diversité et coopérative.
Lors de cet événement, nous utiliserons des méthodes novatrices de l'éducation des adultes, telles que la Démocratie profonde, le Forum ouvert et le Dialogue pour un changement pacifique afin de nous faire " sortir des sentiers battus " tout en prenant connaissance des problèmes des uns et des autres et en identifiant les intérêts communs.
Nous avons également fait appel à des conférenciers vraiment innovateurs qui ont fait changer les choses de façon spectaculaire dans leur région du monde. Le conférencier principal est Peter Kenyon de la Bank of Ideas en Australie. Il a aidé des communautés aussi petites que des communautés de sept personnes à renverser leur déclin. Il est aussi connu pour son travail lié à l'engagement des jeunes et au développement de leurs compétences en leadership. Plus près de chez nous, nous avons un excellent exemple d'une organisation rurale qui a collaboré avec son gouvernement provincial pour créer des politiques soutenant et encourageant les zones rurales saines. Claire Bolduc, présidente de Solidarité rurale du Québec, parlera de leurs politiques territoriales et expliquera comment elles sont si différentes de la façon de faire du reste de l'Amérique du Nord.
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Cet événement est organisé grâce à un partenariat unique entre le Coastal Communities Network (Réseau des communautés côtières), le Tatamagouche Centre, le Nova Scotia Economic and Rural Development (ministère du Développement économique et rural de la Nouvelle-Écosse), le Rural Research Center du Collège d'agriculture de la Nouvelle-Écosse, le NS Policies and Priorities (Comité des politiques et des priorités de la Nouvelle-Écosse) et le Secrétariat rural fédéral.
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Previous participants stated:
“An excellent forum for ideas and to help push policies forward that are important
to all of us. Great workshops.”
“A great opportunity (1st) to sit with very committed tuned in people from a great
variety of backgrounds and expertise and visions. Thanks for the opportunity, keep
up the great work, we’ll keep connected”
“I just wanted to say thank you for inviting me to the Forum last week. I was totally
blown away by the place, the topics covered and the depth of content, the process used
to deal with such complex issues and above all, the people – Thank You.”
“Thank you for having a policy forum. Its complex topics and you found a creative way
to engage local/regular folks in policy”
“an excellent meeting of minds”
“My first CCN event! I found it to be very encouraging re: harnessing energies needed
for change locally and influencing Policy at federal and provincial levels. Interesting
and varied agenda. Well facilitated too!”
“Very good conference. I enjoyed the time to spend on a issue I feel vital for rural sustainability.”
“For a government employee, the 2005 Forum was a good place to feel
the pulse of rural Nova Scotia and see what issues were of concern to
the community people attending.”
“This meeting has sparked many ideas for research and analysis.”
“As a community person, I felt welcome and included. I am always
pleased when a meeting ends with an action plan.”
“It was good to have government people to hear feedback.”
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Rural Policy Forum 2007
The issues focusing on this year included Water Quality, Sustainable Energy, Labour Force Development, Food Security, Coastal Futures, and Men & Women in Rural Communities - What's the Difference? This year's event promised to increase people's understanding of the issues that affect rural communities and build strategies to address these issues.
Keynote speakers included Chuck Fluharty, Rural Policy Research Institute, Missouri; Belinda Leach, Rural Women Making Change, Guelph, Ontario; and Christine Gosselin, Rural Development, Government of Québec.
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Click here to download the full report.
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Rural Policy Forum 2005
The Second Annual Rural Policy Forum was an initiative of the Rural
Communities Impacting Policy (RCIP) Project that took place on
February 17-19, 2005. The goal of RCIP is to increase the ability
of rural communities and organizations in Nova Scotia to access and
use social science research to influence and develop policy that
contributes to the health and sustainability of rural communities.
This 5-year research project (2001-2006), funded by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is led by the
Coastal Communities Network of Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Health
Promotion Research Centre at Dalhousie University.
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Click here to download the full report.
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CCN - A large voice for Rural Nova Scotia
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