Sarah Wong
@sarahwong
Sarah Wong
The Illustrated Guide to Participatory City
Participatory City promotes community engagement through practical projects, fostering collaboration and improving neighborhoods by creating accessible participation opportunities that address social issues and enhance well-being for all residents.
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Creative writing involves a deliberate rejection of practicality: To get into the right mood for writing requires short-circuiting our usual calculations of profit and loss, since there is nothing as gratuitous as a poem or story.
— Adam Kirsch in The New Republic
— Adam Kirsch in The New Republic
What part of the discovery process are we currently in? Are we diverging? Exploring different approaches, sketching 100 solutions, running lots of quick tests in different directions, etc. or are we converging: narrowing our focus, testing one thing out and maintaining constraints?
CEO diary entry: control, accountability, whiplash & anxiety
Question raised: Can non-religious forms of community foster the same sense of commitment and obligation as religious communities?
Introducing: Connective Tissue
I believe deeply the change our world needs now isn’t going to come from extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. To paraphrase Mother Teresa, it’s going to come from ordinary people doing ordinary things, with great love.
Priya’s expertise lies in framing conversation, and listening and tracking for language and how it begins to shift and shape perceptions in a group. Her speciality is facilitating meaningful conversations that activate a group's sense of possibility and identity.
About Priya Parker | Her Story — Priya Parker
A great story has six key elements:
Character - Your story needs someone for events to happen to
Setting. A good story takes place somewhere specific, providing a sense of time and place.
Struggle- A story is about someone who wants something but can't easily get it.
Pursuit. What will your character do to overcome their struggles? Will they succeed?