Overview

Discovering your community

         identifying a community's assets instead of its needs

Convening community conversations

         bringing community members together for respectful, inclusive conversations

Healing divisions and conflicts

         encountering our differences

Community Healing Circles

         honoring the sacred dimension of our communities

Shaping community governance

         making our democracies more truly representative of the voice of the people

Community arts, play, and celebration

         fun ways to build connections between community members in relaxed, informal settings

Overview

We serve the vision of a world in which local communities become increasingly wise, sustainable, and self-reliant. Rather than relying on the government to authorize change from the top down, we believe that the shift to a global wisdom culture must also be initiated from below through the efforts of ordinary citizens within their local communities.

Dozens of innovative approaches to community growth have been developed and successfully applied in real communities to bring the diverse voices of the community together to produce wise collective visions and actions. The fundamental goal of these approaches is not to achieve an ideal state for a community but to develop an optimal process through which a community can constantly recreate itself by mobilizing its own resources and collective wisdom in response to the challenges and opportunities it faces.

In this section we present resources that support the emergence of collective community wisdom. We are particularly indebted to Tom Atlee's great work in this area and highly recommend the ‘Community' resources on his website, www.co-intelligence.org. Thanks Tom!