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If You Want to Belong, Find a Third Place
The research indicates that Americans today are seeking connection with others who share their values. But they’re not involved in communities that typically provide deep ongoing connection, membership, and life-honoring rituals. Best-selling author and marketing guru Seth Godin writes that people today want connection more than material things. He
... See moreCharles Vogl • The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
How we gather
caspertk.files.wordpress.comIf we don't have real third places, what do we have instead? Oldenburg calls what we have as non-places. In real places, a human being is a unique individual person. In non-places, individuality disappears and you're either a customer, a client, an address to be billed, or a car to be parked. Places have now mostly been reduced to consumerism. Alli
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“Third places” are neither home nor work/school, where we can go to experience companionship and community. They’re neutral ground where those gathered are on equal footing.
Third places produce a dynamism because of the diversity of people gathered. In other places we’re more likely to be surrounded by people similar to ourselves. Third places of
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