The Bridge Builders’ Handbook A guide to thinking like a mediator and building bridges in your community by Neil Denton
About this handbook
Our aim is to help you to think like a Bridge Builder; to find ways to solve problems, strengthen relationships and build more connected communities.
This guide will:
- Help you to recognise and celebrate the power and impact of the bridges you have already built and the connections you have already made
- Help to identify where your connections are strong, where they could be stronger and where the relationship you have with different groups is under strain, or yet to be made
- Give you some practical ideas, some ways of working and some guiding principles on how to make positive and meaningful connections with different groups
Lots has been written about Bridge Building in an academic sense. This handbook seeks to translate that knowledge into practical action; a series of simple steps that anyone can follow to tend to their bridges and build new ones.
