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Community

Author Peter Block
Release Date: 2009/09/01
ISBN: 9781576757734
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Book Description

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Welcome
  7. INTRODUCTION The Fragmented Community and Its Transformation
  8. PART ONE The Fabric of Community
    1. CHAPTER 1 Insights into Transformation
    2. CHAPTER 2 Shifting the Context for Community
    3. CHAPTER 3 The Stuck Community
    4. CHAPTER 4 The Restorative Community
    5. CHAPTER 5 Taking Back Our Projections
    6. CHAPTER 6 What It Means to Be a Citizen
    7. CHAPTER 7 The Transforming Community
  9. PART TWO The Alchemy of Belonging
    1. CHAPTER 8 Leadership Is Convening
    2. CHAPTER 9 The Small Group Is the Unit of Transformation
    3. CHAPTER 10 Questions Are More Transforming Than Answers
    4. Midterm Review
    5. CHAPTER 11 Invitation
    6. CHAPTER 12 The Possibility, Ownership, Dissent, Commitment, and Gifts Conversations
    7. CHAPTER 13 Bringing Hospitality into the World
    8. CHAPTER 14 Designing Physical Space That Supports Community
    9. CHAPTER 15 The End of Unnecessary Suffering
  10. MORE Book at a Glance
  11. Role Models and Resources
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Index
  14. About the Author
  15. About the Design
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