An exploration of how person-centred planning could become an important tool of local system change.
Author: David Towell
Citizen Network is currently publishing a series of articles celebrating the lifetime contributions of John O'Brien and exploring the continuing relevance of his work to the challenges we face now in 'building communities that work better for everybody'.
In the course of editing this series, I have been searching out articles and pamphlets that John produced during his many years of visiting the UK.
When John took part in a workshop or met a local network, he frequently took the trouble to write up accounts of the discussions and make them available to participants. Often this meant a circulation of no more than 30 or 40 people. These documents are a treasure trove but a lot of the material is now hard to find.
This paper summarises three of these important contributions where I am listed as 'co-author'. Their main theme is an exploration of how person centred planning could become an important tool of local system change.
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The publisher is Citizen Network. Person-Centred Planning and Transformative Change © David Towell 2026.
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