Experience-based learning opportunities for community leaders, active community people to learn about the use of artistic tools. They got to know about the community creative processes and gained expertise. They tried it out in their own communities. Through personal stories, new competences were revealed in the process of co-creation, which supported the development of a common identity and cohesion (among the participants and in the communities to which we took them during the project). The methodology of the HACD has been enriched with a new method.
Deprivation of the community and isolation have intensified through the events of the last 3 years (pandemic). The condition of communities is weakening according to the European indices, distrust and division are increasing. This has also been felt in the domestic communities. HACD, as a development organisation, feels a responsibility to seek answers in the changed situation, to offer new solutions to those working with communities and to the communities. New, innovative tools, powerful forms of impact are needed to revitalise communities in an increasingly deteriorating situation, for community leaders to regain hope and momentum of will to act. The HACD methodology is essentially a verbal, cognitive toolkit. This was extended and complemented with artistic tools, introduced to the participants and experimented in local communities.