PART III
MOVING FROM FAMILY
TO COMMUNITY POWER

The creative potential of the world’s hundreds of millions of Cultural and Spiritual Creatives is being expressed through the formation of communities of convergence in which people develop relationships, institutions, and authentic cultures of living societies. A community of convergence may be as simple as a local study group. It might be a farmers’ market, a school to develop inquiring minds, or a course on voluntary simplicity. It might be a socially responsible local business, a church congregation devoted to spiritual inquiry and community service, or a holistic health clinic. No matter how small or isolated such initiatives may originally be, each creates a protected space in which diversity, experimentation, and learning can flourish to create the building blocks of a new mainstream economy, politics, and culture.

— DAVID C. KORTEN, THE GREAT TURNING¹