Community : the structure of belonging

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Title:

Community : the structure of belonging

Author:

Block, Peter.

ISBN:

9781576754870

Personal Author:

Block, Peter.

Publication Information:

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008.

Physical Description:

xiii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction. The Fragmented Community and Its Transformation -- Pt. 1. The Fabric of Community -- Ch. 1. Insights into Transformation -- Ch. 2. Shifting the Context for Community -- Ch. 3. The Stuck Community -- Ch. 4. The Restorative Community -- Ch. 5. Taking Back Our Projections -- Ch. 6. What It Means to Be a Citizen -- Ch. 7. The Transforming Community -- Pt. 2. The Alchemy of Belonging -- Ch. 8. Leadership Is Convening -- Ch. 9. The Small Group Is the Unit of Transformation -- Ch. 10. Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers -- Midterm Review -- Ch. 11. Invitation -- Ch. 12. The Possibility, Ownership, Dissent, Commitment, and Gifts Conversations -- Ch. 13. Bringing Hospitality into the World -- Ch. 14. Designing Physical Space That Supports Community -- Ch. 15. The End of Unnecessary Suffering -- More. Book at a Glance -- Role Models and Resources.

Abstract:

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities--businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together.

Social sciences.

Subject Term:

Communities.

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Summary

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.