Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
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Cultivating Non-Romantic Intimacy
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?
community, like any relationship, is an aggregate of multiple narratives. Intimacy in turn can be described as the work of finding alignment across these multiple narratives. Measured, thoughtful growth creates the spaciousness to cultivate intimacy, and determines which community narratives will persist over time.
Steph Alinsug • A Culture of Intimacy: a thesis for building enduring web3 commu…
Everywhere we go these days, there is talk about community - the developer SaaS tool, the soap brand, and virtually every product I interact with now prominently bears a Community link on their homepage. Personally, I don’t need more Slack groups or things to which I belong. What I want is deeper relationships with specific people where I can be mo... See more
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Community in Capitalism
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More broadly, what are the other ways in which we could be caring for one another? What spaces in our lives could we open up to one another? What parameters have been set for us by convention that are keeping us out of one another’s business? There is a line to cross toward more intimacy and interdependence when we put aside the modern conventions
... See moreMia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
a culture of intimacy as the foundation for building enduring communities.
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