April 2026 Practitioner Gathering Harvest - CDLI
On Wednesday April 8th CDLI hosted our fourth Community of Practice gathering of the 2026 calendar year.
See our April shared harvest here or in the slides below. If you have a topic in mind that you would like to discuss with other community development practitioners please let us know and we will include it in a future COP date that works for you.
Some of the key points of reflection:
Topic 1: What role does community development have in making democracy as accessible as possible?
Reminding people of the power they have.
The world we are shown is just one piece of the pie, through community we can see more of the pieces.
Space to hold the reaction so that we can work on the long game.
Interested in talking more about the relationship between community development and access to democracy? Stay tuned for an in person Meet Up in Calgary in the coming months about this topic!
Click through the slides to view the notes in their entirety, we do our best to include hyperlinks to resources or articles shared.
CDLI looks forward to hosting open space COP’s for Community Development Practitioners, which includes paid and unpaid folks doing community work, on the second Wednesday of each month in 2026. Register to join us here.