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Author Archives: Graeme Stuart
Do we need a blog by another straight, white, male?
I started the Sustaining Community blog to highlight resources and information that I thought were relevant to students and practitioners. Soon after, I also started writing content that I thought might be useful. The style and voice of the blog … Continue reading
Special days and dates for the environment – 2023
A list of significant international and Australian national days/weeks that focus on environmental issues for 2023. Continue reading
Blog statistics for 2022 (Transparency report)
An overview of some of the key statistics for 2022 for the Sustaining Community blog. Continue reading
Key activities in our trial of the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) open group
We’ve been asked what are the key activities that we make sure are included regularly in our trial of an Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) Basic workshop as an open group (weekly 2-hour sessions where people can join any week). … Continue reading
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2 questionnaires identifying conflict management style
In a recent point, I provided an overview of 5 styles of conflict management. In this post I discuss two questionnaires that can be used to identify people’s main style Continue reading
More details of our trial of a weekly, open AVP group
As discussed in a recent post, our local Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) group has been trialling a Basic AVP workshop as a weekly open group (in partnership with the Samaritans Recovery Point) where people can join any week. In this post we will discuss some of the finer detail of this approach. Continue reading
What are the 5 styles of conflict management?
I find the five styles of conflict management a useful, easy-to-understand way of thinking about different approaches to ways of responding to conflict: These five styles, identified by Kenneth Thomas in 1971 [1] and since refined by him and his … Continue reading
Trialling an open AVP group with people recently out of prison or rehab
Reflecting on a trial of Basic Alternatives to Violence Project workshops as a weekly open group (where people can join any week) after 35 sessions. Continue reading
My daughter was arrested
Alexa (my 19-year old daughter) was arrested today while delivering a cease and desist letter to Whitehaven Coal. Continue reading
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