Community Praxis Co-op exists to empower people and to resource and strengthen the capacities of groups and organisations in developing peaceful, just and sustainable communities.

The Co-op operates as an education, training and consultancy agency for individuals, neighbourhoods, non-government organisations, and government authorities. Community Praxis is a not-for-profit workers cooperative based in South East Queensland, and was established in December 1998 by a group of community development colleagues. There are currently ten members of the Co-op and a network of more than fifty colleagues who have worked together on a range of projects.

We design and facilitate processes that contribute to more peaceful, just and sustainable communities.

Co-op consultancy teams are usually made up of one or more co-op members, working with colleagues from our networks who are practitioners with particular expertise.

Our teams design and facilitate processes in response to invitations, project briefs and partnership opportunities - mainly from government and community sector organisations.

We bring together project teams...

We will consider any work for which we can bring together a team with appropriate skills and experience, in which there is an opportunity to contribute towards building more peaceful, just and sustainable communities.

The project teams bring to their work an ecological worldview - in which context, connectedness, interdependence and acknowledgement of on-going change is crucial.

... that value community...

The teams also bring a strong belief in the integrity of community. At the heart of our practice is the belief that healthy communities are not communities without problems, but rather are communities that have the capacity, resources, resilience and leadership to creatively engage with their own issues and the wider context.

And beyond that, we believe, soulful communities have developed ongoing processes which engage their issues as indicators of potential - with attention, awareness and imagination.

... in a self-managed enterprise that gives back

The Co-op is not-for-profit. All Co-op members and employees are casual or short-term project workers who are paid for the work that they do on a particular project. We budget a small 'ethical dividend' in each project, which we donate to support local community building initiatives in Australia and overseas.

We also support one another's vocational learning in the context of a commitment to the tradition of community development as a practice discipline - providing space for ourselves and other practitioners to develop and share reflections on creating peaceful, just and sustainable communities.

Phone:  0490 117 559

Community Praxis Co-op
upcoming events

Participatory Community Development
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Friday 24th March 2023, 9.30am-4.30pm
Brisbane Quakers Meeting House, Kelvin Grove, 10 Hampson Street.

Morning and afternoon tea included, please bring lunch

Co-hosted by Dr Peter Westoby, Dave Andrews and Rachael Donovan

Click here for more information and to get you tickets.

To express your interest in Praxis events, please email peter@communitypraxis.org.