👋 🏘️ Why don’t we know our neighbors?
What makes an effective community is not having people in it with the right expertise or information. What makes it work is people with the right intention and presence.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Tie the activity back to why your community teamed up in the first place. What goal or outcome becomes possible only when this specific group of people gets together?
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
True belonging is always the product of co-construction. This requires mechanisms that: create buy-in, ensure people are and feel heard, facilitate collective decision making and error-correction.