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Andrew Coulson

Active listening at the Water Cooler

When I worked on the front line, at the metaphorical coalface, of community engagement one of my number one tactics for understanding…

3 min readApr 11, 2023

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Active listening at the Water Cooler

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Andrew Coulson

Part 5 of Global Community Engagement Day

It may only be the 5th year we have instigated the annual Global Community Engagement Day on 28 January but wow we are in love. The growth…

5 min readFeb 2, 2022

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Lady holding a globe at her side. By Ben White on Unsplash

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Andrew Coulson

Global Community Engagement Day 2022

The state of community engagement in South Australia

6 min readJan 27, 2022

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Global Community Engagement Day 2022

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Andrew Coulson

Engaging children for their future

Hard to reach or maybe we just need to work harder to reach them?

5 min readJan 27, 2021

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Engaging children for their future

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Andrew Coulson

Working from home — lessons learnt so far

For the last few weeks I have been working from home for the first time which has been both strange and liberating. After 18 years in…

6 min readFeb 5, 2020

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Working from home — lessons learnt so far

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Andrew Coulson

5 real ways you can put Community back in to Community engagement

Over the last four or five years professionalism has started to creep more and more in to the field of Community Engagement. Focused…

7 min readJan 27, 2020

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5 real ways you can put Community back in to Community engagement

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Andrew Coulson

Is there a hidden level on the IAP2 spectrum — ‘con’-form?

You see a A4 laminated poster on a stobie pole/lamp post. You walk past it ever day for a month. You can see it has small print, some in…

2 min readAug 7, 2018

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Is there a hidden level on the IAP2 spectrum — ‘con’-form?

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Andrew Coulson

Global Community Engagement Day is here!

Members of the Engage 2 Act collective across the world

4 min readJan 10, 2018

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Andrew Coulson

5 Secret Santa gifts for your Community Engagement Geek

Christmas is close and the office party is looming. Kris Kringle or Secret Santa strikes dread in the heart of many across the world. What…

5 min readDec 6, 2017

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5 Secret Santa gifts for your Community Engagement Geek

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Andrew Coulson

Adopt A Councillor: It’s Actually Happening!

BY ANDREW COULSON

7 min readJun 3, 2017

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Andrew Coulson

Andrew Coulson

Community Engagement, Civic Tech & Public Consultation Thought Leader. #gatehashing & #globalcommunityengagementday instigator.

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