Trudy Ingram
6/15/2020 06:05:41 pm
The Different Drum! One of my all time beloved books, I'm looking at it on my bookshelf as we speak! I was so taken with Peck's community building model, I attended 2 community building workshops back in the mid-1990s. No group I've been in, before or since, large or small, has ever come close to that experience--although many facilitators claim to build community. It's impossible to describe how a group of strangers goes through the sometimes very difficult stages of community building to emerge as a whole, completely different, in peace and trust. For me that's the starting place for any meaningful and inclusive decision-making process, the foundation that you spoke about. How to facilitate that online is trickier, but I know a group in Tennessee that is experimenting with that (they trained and worked with Scott Peck for many years). You can check out Community Building Institute at https://communitybuilding.com/
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Trudy, Wow. That's amazing. Oddly enough, the book was suggest to me by elder almost 20 years ago. I must have read it a does times. It so perfectly aligned with what I had been taught by my own mentors that it really stuck with me.
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Davd
6/15/2020 08:31:22 pm
Loved, loved, loved this video. Appreciated your way of talking about concepts in a way that was highly relevant, all without feeling like you were telling me "this is THE way to fix everything." Been hearing lots of that recently, so it was refreshing and timely seeing your approach. The emptiness state you mentioned got me thinking. Can a community engage in emptiness if members personally aren't comfortable with being in that state on an individual level? I haven't read The Different Drum, but I plan to. Anyway, I was just thinking that the idea of embracing discomfort, even so-called unpleasant feelings is something I personally struggled with for a while as so many messages these days, especially the sound bite wisdom that's so popular, can make it seem like discomfort is reflective of being too negative, of seeing the glass half-empty. So I was just wondering if a community space, of being energetically connected in proximity to others, can help people who might otherwise individually not be open to engaging the emptiness on either a personal or group level. Would be curious your thoughts on this.
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Michael
6/16/2020 05:44:05 am
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