Community

3. What’s the problem only we can solve together?

Even outside of work, you are proposing to consume people’s most precious resource: time. Making the effort to consider how you want your guests, and yourself, to be altered by the experience is what you owe people as a good steward of that resource.

The inescapable truth is that you’ll have to exceed expectations with your core activity if you want people to show up and keep showing up.

these are all types of relational infrastructure too:

• Peer-to-peer journeys and learning crews - topic as focus

• Communities of practice - practice as a focus

• Participatory ecosystems - place as a focus

• Labs - social, living, innovation and more - process as a focus

Reverse engineer an outcome: Think of what you want to be different because you gathered, and work backward from that outcome.

Memory is meant to be given. It isn’t held well alone. It is meant to be held in a collective and across generations. Memories that remain exclusive to a particular individual or even community are at risk of becoming false.

The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.