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Community : the structure of belonging / Peter Block.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2008.Description: xiii, 240 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781576754870
  • 1576754871
  • 9781605092775
  • 1605092770
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: The Fragmented Community and Its Transformation -- Part 1. The Fabric of Community. Insights into Transformation -- Shifting the Context for Community -- The Stuck Community -- The Restorative Community -- Taking Back Our Projections -- What It Means to Be a Citizen -- The Transforming Community -- Part 2. The Alchemy of Belonging. Leadership Is Convening -- The Small Group Is the Unit of Transformation -- Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers -- Midterm Review -- Invitation -- The Possibility, Ownership, Dissent, Commitment, and Gifts Conversations -- Bringing Hospitality into the World -- Designing Physical Space That Supports Community -- The End of Unnecessary Suffering -- More. Book at a Glance -- Role Models and Resources.
Review: "'Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves. Businesses, social services, education, and health care each live within their own worlds. The same is true of individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. What keeps this from changing is that we are trapped in an old and tired conversation about who we are. If this narrative does not shift, we will never truly create a common future and work toward it together.' 'What Peter Block provides in this new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? What can individuals and formal leaders do to create a place they want to inhabit? We know what healthy communities look like-there are many success stories out there. The challenge is how to create one in our own place'"-- Jacket.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us.

The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block show that we have the capacity to find real and sustainable satisfaction right in our neighborhood and community.

This book reports on voluntary, self-organizing structures that focus on gifts and value hospitality, the welcoming of strangers. It shows how to reweave our social fabric, especially in our neighborhoods. In this way we collectively have enough to create a future that works for all.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Fragmented Community and Its Transformation -- Part 1. The Fabric of Community. Insights into Transformation -- Shifting the Context for Community -- The Stuck Community -- The Restorative Community -- Taking Back Our Projections -- What It Means to Be a Citizen -- The Transforming Community -- Part 2. The Alchemy of Belonging. Leadership Is Convening -- The Small Group Is the Unit of Transformation -- Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers -- Midterm Review -- Invitation -- The Possibility, Ownership, Dissent, Commitment, and Gifts Conversations -- Bringing Hospitality into the World -- Designing Physical Space That Supports Community -- The End of Unnecessary Suffering -- More. Book at a Glance -- Role Models and Resources.

"'Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves. Businesses, social services, education, and health care each live within their own worlds. The same is true of individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. What keeps this from changing is that we are trapped in an old and tired conversation about who we are. If this narrative does not shift, we will never truly create a common future and work toward it together.' 'What Peter Block provides in this new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? What can individuals and formal leaders do to create a place they want to inhabit? We know what healthy communities look like-there are many success stories out there. The challenge is how to create one in our own place'"-- Jacket.

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