Building Collective Leadership Capacity: Lessons Learned from a University-Community Partnership

Abstract

Nine deliberative civic engagement forums were convened using a community-driven framework in order to co-emerge what was required to make systemic change. In the context of these forums, we identified the perception community members had when approaching collective work, the dispositions they initially called upon when making-sense of collective action, and barriers that prevent collective work. The article concludes by offering a direction to attend to both individual and collective outcomes when working to deepen capacity of community to advance collective action.