Community is About What We Are Willing to Feel
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Community is About What We Are Willing to Feel
We all know that feeling of belonging to something — comfort, happiness, peace. It feels like magic being in your place with your people and being able to play your role in the glue that holds that space together. Many communities capture these ephemeral, magical moments of the human condition and turn them into lasting, life-changing relationships... See more
Medium • Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
A community is a group of individuals who share mutual concern for each other’s welfare. When we form a community that grows friendship, we create what we seek, friends who care about the welfare of one another.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Communities are created when at least two people begin to feel concern for each other’s welfare.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
But I am my deeper and complete self when I build in community.
- building in public gives emptiness
- focus is on going and building deeper
- additional context of mutual trust
- psychological safety
Rosieland • Building in community
Acceptance, presence, patience, and especially vulnerability help to create and sustain deep community. In turn, deep community becomes the supportive space for all the other principles to flourish.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
One of the great pleasures of being part of a community is that we don’t have to explain ourselves. We want to feel seen and understood without explaining the parts that outsiders don’t get.
Charles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Community is one of those words that means different things to different people. For clarity’s sake, I’ll share my definitions of the word. To me, community is as simple as a group of people helping each other out.
Marianna Gose Martinelli • What I Know About Community Building
Community is more than just sharing resources or hanging out now and then. It’s showing up and investing in the ongoing creation of one another’s lives.