The Strengths of a City

Jo Dolby, Hub leader for Oasis Bath, addresses the Bath TedX crowd, exploring an asset-based approach to community transformation.

How effective is a deficit based approach at resolving social problems and is it the right route to identify robust and sustainable solutions? How can we take a more positive approach to identifying and resolving the route of the problems? Jo Dolby talks on the benefits of applying the positive approach of Asset Based Community Development in the resolution of social problems. Jo has been pioneering and delivering innovative community projects in and around the city of Bath for over 15 years, involving skateboarding, graffiti and spoken word poetry. Jo has also been involved in teaching and training young people and adults in youth work, media and theology and is a JNC qualified youth worker with an MA in Applied Theology.