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Issue #29: Heroism and Belonging
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
“I keep coming back to community as the solution,” he writes.12 To brave shifting conditions, we will have to strive to create communities “in which everyone’s basic needs are met,” because “leaving people out eventually costs everybody.” Interdependence and the social skills that facilitate that connectedness or cooperation are at the heart of Beg
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Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World by john a. powell, Stephen Menendian
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We didn't need heroes; we needed people to work together and show how we can make things happen when we work as one team.
James M. Kouzes • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)
Belonging is not about bypassing crises so we feel better within our individual bubbles.
Sebene Selassie • You Belong: A Call for Connection
The key to the hero’s journey is a willingness to sacrifice and be sacrificed for the healing or betterment of the world.