Building Community Resilience Together — A Strength-Based Approach

Building Community Resilience Together — A Strength-Based Approach for Dowsborough

The Jeder Institute is visiting the UK for two weeks, and we’re thrilled to announce they’ve agreed to run a special session right here in Dowsborough with Go Together as part of the Community Solution Seekers Project.Come and see the incredible work they do in person — an inspiring, hands-on experience you won’t want to miss.

How can we grow stronger together in times of change?

Join Go Together (UK) and the globally recognised Jeder Institute (Australia) for an engaging, practical, and hopeful workshop on Community Resilience, designed especially for people and organisations across Dowsborough, Somerset.

Grounded in a strength-based approach and the belief that relationships are our most vital infrastructure, this workshop focuses on how we can nurture connection, grow local capacity, and support one another — not just in response to life’s challenges, but in preparation for the future we want to create together.

Why This Workshop Matters

Across Somerset, communities are facing shifts and pressures — from rising costs to changing public services, from climate concerns to social isolation. And yet, the answers often lie close to home: in our neighbours, our networks, and the gifts we each bring. This workshop will help you unlock that local potential by:

• Building relationships before you need them — strengthening trust and collaboration across community, voluntary, and public sectors
• Uncovering and connecting local strengths — from skills and lived experience to informal support networks and shared spaces
• Fostering adaptability and wellbeing — offering practical tools for communities to navigate uncertainty with confidence and care
• Creating shared purpose across sectors — weaving stronger links between people and organisations working for good in Dowsborough

What You Can Expect

This is a hands-on, participatory session, filled with real stories, practical methods, and space to reflect, connect, and take action. Together we’ll explore:

• The principles and practices of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD)
• How resilience grows from relationships, not just responses
• Insights from global communities and how they apply in Somerset
• Tools to support inclusive, community-led action

Whether you’re a local organiser, parish councillor, resident, community volunteer or part of a local organisation, this workshop offers a chance to connect, recharge, and reimagine what’s possible — together.

🍽 Bring & Share Lunch – please bring something to share if you can. It’s a lovely way to build connections over good food.

This event is part of the Community Solution Seekers Project.

For more information visit our website.

Refershments will be provided.

About the Hosts

Jeder Institute are global leaders in participatory community building, offering training and facilitation that strengthens local resilience, inclusion, and connection in ways that are grounded, creative, and community-led.

Go Together is a UK-based organisation that supports community-led change through relational work, training, and systems leadership. Rooted in the belief that people and relationships drive change, they work alongside communities to build the connections that make change possible.

Please note by signing up for this event, you agree to:

• Your name/organisation being shared as evidence of attendance.
• Being added to a mailing list to be kept informed about future events and activities relevant to local communities in Somerset.

For more information or if you want to opt out of any of these points please get in touch with us by emailing: programmes@somersetrcc.org.uk.

Getting to the event

By car: in line with our environmental aims, we encourage visitors to car-share wherever possible. There is on site parking at the Village Hall.

By train: Bridgwater Station and Taunton, a taxi will be required to connect the event.

By bus: Plan your journey.

This meeting will focus on the following parishes

Cannington|Chilton Trinity|Durleigh|Enmore|Fiddington|Goathurst|Holford|Kilve|Nether Stowey|Otterhampton|Over Stowey|Spaxton|Stockland Bristol|Stogursey|Stringston|Wembdon

The Community Solution Seekers project is funded by Somerset ICB.

Please note by signing up for this free event, you agree to your name/organisation being shared as evidence of attendance for the funders of this free event.

Events are sometimes photographed or recorded primarily to benefit other participants who could not attend the event. Photographs may be used for marketing purposes to promote the work of Community Solution Seekers. We give delegates the option to opt out at the start of events.

Contact: programmes@somersetrcc.org.uk if you have any questions.

Donations welcome, if you are able, to CCS Pay it Forward campaign.