creating community

The best communities have clear intentions: A writing group? An artists' collective? An exercise club? Those are all communities with very clear intentions: we are here to do/because of X . Organizing becomes more natural when everyone has the same general goals. Communities may occur organically, but once you organize them around an intention, you... See more

Welcome to the Culture Study Classifieds, one of my favorite recurring features in the newsletter. Since the first classifieds back in October, I routinely receive requests to do another round — I think because people like reading them, but people also like offering services (and looking for them).

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The best intentional communities are built on trust: I can't think of a solid community I have been a part of where there wasn't an innate sense of trust. I can think of plenty of communities I have left where the trust between members and/or organizers has been irreparably broken. Once that trust is broken, there needs to be enough trust to... See more