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'Community building' is a group process model developed by the best selling author M. Scott Peck and has an established base of practitioners and facilitators around the world. Peck wrote about 'community building' in his book 'The Different Drum' and it really helps to read that book.  Jerry Hampton's web-site is useful too.

But an intellectual description can only go so far when trying to explain the unexplainable. To understand how community can be invited into a group you have to experience the process. I'll try and write about it all the same.

I came to this work because I felt lonelier and more disconnected from people than I wanted to be. I wanted more meaningful ways to be myself in a group –  to be seen and heard as I truly am.

In community building, we have an intention to invite community into our group. We have a circle of chairs. We have a list of things that help and some things that we know about group work. We have a facilitator. We value space, silence and good listening.

Everyone brings their joys, sorrows, sufferings and laughter. Whatever brings us together - we share an experience of building a community  – and that is what matters. We learn – by doing it.  

 For a more technical description of the process - click here. If after reading this, you don't fully understand - don't worry, the only way to truly learn about this practice is to experience it - and that is our invitation.