Together, we will explore how this strengths-based approach can breathe life into asset mapping and reimagine how we listen to, plan and build with communities.

In this episode, I want to talk about asset mapping.

Now, we've already spoken about asset mapping and how it was an approach as part of asset-based community development in the first episode.

We talked about the fact that as part of asset-based community development, we want to begin with the strengths of community.

So one of the approaches through asset mapping It's about trying to identify those resources within the community, including knowledge, skills, infrastructure, institutions that can then be built on to do community development.

From my perspective, I want to touch on this and talk about what has gone right with asset mapping and what has gone wrong with it and why appreciative inquiry might be the reset we need.

Asset mapping, as it was envisioned as part of asset-based community development, was a bit of a radical act for its time.