What Are Our Core Gifts and Why Gifts Matter? Part 1 Taking Back Our Economy

Welcome to the sixth CEA Presents Taking Back Our Economy podcast series hosted by Anitha Beberg. Today, our fellow founders of the Community Exchange Alliance: Christine Gray, Edgar Cahn, Tim Jenkin and Martin Simon are joined by a special guest, Bruce Anderson, from the Core Gift Institute. Our topic today is "What Are Our Core Gifts and Why They Matter?"  

Bruce Anderson is a recognized speaker, community activist, and leadership coach. Co-founding Community Activators in 1990, he collaborated with other groups and developed extensive training and action-based materials about how to identify and use gifts. These methods are used around the world by a wide range of individuals and groups including executive coaches, youth programs, therapists, social workers, employment programs, faith congregations, and mental health agencies. The Core Gift Institute was founded to deepen and carry forward the work of gifts. It was designed to be a welcoming place for finding information about discovering and giving gifts and increasing health and abundance in individuals and communities. With degrees in Education and Rehabilitation Administration, Bruce brings a unique blend of experiences, including being the mayor of a town, teacher, mediator, executive director of social service agencies, design/build home contractor, and commercial fisherman. He is an adjunct faculty member at University of California and Faculty-Fellow at the Asset-Based Community Development Center at DePaul University in Chicago.  Bruce is known for bringing intriguing ideas from other cultures and times, personal stories, and practical ideas into the workshops and sessions he leads. He is the author of The Teacher’s Gift and two audio CDs: Hope at Work: Creating Positive, Resilient Organizations, and Our Door is Open: Creating Welcoming Cultures in Helping Organizations.  

Resource Links:  https://www.coregift.org/ Gifts and Thriving Slide: https://communityexchangealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GiftsAndThriving.pdf Gift Basket Slide: https://communityexchangealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/GiftBasket.pdf  

The aim of Community Exchange Alliance is to form a learning community where people come to share their experience, information, and how-to advice about exchange systems such as sharing, swapping, gifting, bartering and local community currencies and also about networks of exchange systems. The Alliance was formed by Anitha Beberg, Edgar Cahn, Christine Gray, Tim Jenkin and Martin Simon, a group of individuals who have dedicated, between them, over one hundred person-years to helping grow different types of local means of exchange that can help to build strong, resilient communities where people feel valued for their contributions and are supported in their needs. We believe that bringing leaders and members of exchange systems together to share what they have done, what they have learned, the tools that they have developed and how it has changed their community, will bring insights to those with long experience in exchange systems, as well as, helpful information for newcomers to this growing movement.  

If this podcast inspires you to learn more check out our website at http://www.communityexchangealliance.org​ or follow us on twitter @comm_exchange. You can subscribe to this channel for upcoming sharing sessions. Thank you for listening.


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