Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
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Home - BELONG: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life
Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.
Peter Block • Community: The Structure of Belonging
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Communities : the human race demands them, needs them. Belonging is fundamental.
Douglas Atkin • Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more.
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The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
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But these activities are all separate from the feelings needed to fully and sustainably participate: the courage, optimism, trust, love, intimacy, curiosity. The resilience to push through the inevitable feelings of fear, overwhelm, frustration, and hurt. The stamina to go through cycles of all of these feelings and more, again and again, and conti... See more
Community is About What We Are Willing to Feel
Community means a lot of things to a lot of people. Whether it’s your local running group, a book club, your gym squad, family, or membership in an exclusive club, belonging to something is meaningful. Our identities, while obviously unique to us, are so shaped by the influence and power of community that it remains a biologically human need to hav... See more
Connection Engine • Build it and they will come - or will they?
Like any practice worth undertaking, belonging cannot be mastered overnight. Because it is a disappearing art, we might find ourselves going it alone for a while. We may find ourselves disappointed with a lack of response when we try to reach out, and the temptation to lose hope will be strong. But we must keep a vision of how we want our lives and
... See moreToko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
To create something that others want to join and support, we have to remember a core tenet: communities function best and are most durable when they’re helping members to be more successful in some way in a connected and dynamic world.