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Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

Update: 2025-11-30
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This podcast explores the tension between “saving” and “engaging” when working with communities. Through personal stories and reflective conversations, the Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau discuss the risks of falling into saviourism and highlight the importance of shifting toward facilitation that empowers people and communities. The podcast poses critical questions: Are we acting as saviours or supporters? How can facilitators pass the baton to communities to lead their own change? Listeners will gain practical advice and reflections on redefining roles in community engagement to avoid reproducing the saviour industrial complex and to foster authentic, sustainable collaboration.

Hosted by Sherry Ostapovitch and Hani Sadati. Music and production by Sherry Ostapovitch

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Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

Saving or Engaging: Rethinking Community Facilitation, a conversation with Ananya Banerjee and Annie Chau

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