Community Building
- SCN - Sustainable Communities Network
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of information for community building.
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The Builders of the Dawn, by Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson (Book)
- Life in communities can provide powerful training in the art of relationships-learning to live as an
interrelated part of a whole system. Advice on how to start intentional communities, and the principles,
benefits and challenges of choosing to live cooperatively or communally.
- The Co-Intelligence Institute
- Co-intelligence is living well WITH each other and life, creatively using diversity and uniqueness,
consciously evolving together in partnership with nature, transforming culture. Use it for organizational
development, better family relations, community renewal, and creating a more just, democratic and
sustainable society. This site has lots of resources.
- Eight steps to creating your own sustainable Community
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by Robert Gilman � edited by Tommy Cichanowski. You might think that guidelines for eco-village development would mostly
have to do with their "eco" aspect. That is, how to handle the blosystem and built environment. These are certainly important
but in researching this issue and interviewing many people with extensive community experience, we have learned that the physical
systems are the easiest part. They are also the most variable. The details depend strongly on the specifics of the community,
its location, purpose, and composition. These guidelines here, focus on where we perceive the need to be. The social process
of eco-village development.
- The Foundation for Community Encouragement
- Living, learning, and teaching the principles of community. (co-founder M. Scott Peck, author
of "A Road Less Travelled")
- The Community Toolbox
- Bringing Solutions to Light. Our mission: To promote community health and development by connecting
people, ideas and resources.
- Constructive Living
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"Why fret away your life? See the willow tree by the river; there it is, watching the water flow by."
-- Shibayama. Constructive Living has evolved over the past dozen years with continued publication of
books by David Reynolds and the certification of about 125 Constructive Living Instructors, who teach, counsel
and write about specific applications of Constructive Living in a wide variety of areas.
- InnerLinks
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Cofounders Kathy Tyler and Joy Drake are the originators of the Angel� Cards, The Transformation Game�,
Intuitive Solutions� and Frameworks for Change�. All our products, workshops and trainings help individuals,
groups and organizations to increase their understanding of interpersonal dynamics,strengthen their
willingness to work in partnership, and to handle changes with grace.
- Human Synergistics International
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One of the most serious problems in management and organisational development is caused by the fact that
most people are convinced human behaviour does not change. Human Synergistics has found that, as an assertion,
this simply isn't true.
- Handbook for a Positive Revolution, by Edward de Bono (Book)
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The Positive Revolution Page. This resource centre was inspired by Edward de Bono's book "The Handbook
for the Positive Revolution".
- Help Your Community.org
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LEARN ABOUT COALITIONS. Community coalitions all over the country are working to make their neighborhoods
safer, happier, healthier places to live. Find out how.
Meetings
- Open Space Technology
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Open Space conferences have no keynote speakers, no pre-announced schedules of workshops, no
panel discussions, no organizational booths. Instead, sitting in a large circle, participants learn in
the first hour how they are going to create their own conference. Almost before they realize it, they
become each other's teachers and leaders.
- Fishbowl
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The main problem with the adversarial, personal quality of debates is that it encourages debaters to use
rhetorical devices instead of substance to win points in their battle. However, such experts can be nudged
into more creative communication (real dialogue) with a process called "fishbowl."
- Future Search
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Future Search conferences - About three dozen diverse community stakeholders come together to reflect
on their shared past, current dynamics, and future directions, and to form task groups to move the community
in positive directions.
See also: Future Search Conferences
Decision Making
- On Conflict and Consensus, by C.T. Butler and Amy Rothstein
(online book)
- A handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking. Consensus, as a decisionmaking process, has been developing
for centuries. Many people, in diverse communities, have contributed to this development. From them, we have
borrowed generously and adapted freely.
- Dynamic Facilitation
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The Dynamic Facilitator is oriented to helping clients achieve the highest thinking capability, "choice-creating"
rather than the usual target for "good meetings" ... "decision-making." (Jim Rough and Associates, Inc., USA)
- Consensus Books
- From the Fellowship for
Intentional Community
- The Coloured Cards
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The committment to develop and manage housing together requires a culture of co-operation. We
see that fundamental to what we are doing is the importance of process�that how we go about
something is at least as important as what we do. Good group process maximises empowerment and
harmonises contributions from those involved.
- Mind Tools: Techniques for effective decision making
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The techniques in this section help you to make the best decisions possible with the information
you have available. With these tools you will be able to map out the likely consequences of
decisions, work out the importance of individual factors and choose the best course of action to take.
Conflict Resolution
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Creating Harmony, by Hildur Jackson (editor) (Book)
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This book is for anyone who wishes to overcome humanity's greatest stumbling
block - conflict - and explore new, holistic ways of living and working together.
It describes ways of creating harmony and preventing conflict when creating or
rebuilding settlements; documents the life stories of different communities and
the conflict resolution culture they have developed; and outlines specific conflict
resolution techniques.
- Nonviolent Communication
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Practical and proven in daily life around the world, Nonviolent Communication is a reliable language
for being heard, hearing others, clearly and confidently expressing our needs and dreams, and for working
through conflict with compassion and success.
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