Strategy 3: Strength-Based Design
tap into the power of hope
Overview:
Strength-Based Design is how we intentionally source our hopes, dreams, and shared values - equity, empowerment, love, respect, inclusion - transforming everyday activities into opportunities for our community’s wisdom to shine. Focusing on a community’s assets (instead of its deficits), cultural pride, and lived experience fosters unity, resilience, and inspiration for action.
This is an appreciative, generative, and value-driven approach to solving problems. All of this is about having reverence for the unique human potential in everyone, and creating an inclusive space where we can reimagine the world, and co-create the systems, policies, and programs our children deserve.
Let’s practice:
Click through these key tips and questions to help you brainstorm how to build Family Empowerment into your work.
Your turn!
Share this Strength Based Design worksheet with your colleagues and friends to spark conversation (and action).