Tom
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Tom
The people who build collective power are typically individuals who have lacked traditional access to individualized power. What they know too is that collective power is, well, empowering.
Collective power is energizing.
Collective power is generative.
Collective power is engaging.
Collective power is joyful.
Collective power activates others.
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Collective power is energizing.
Collective power is generative.
Collective power is engaging.
Collective power is joyful.
Collective power activates others.
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Rachel Happe • The Transformative Spark of Collective Power
Step one in attracting new members is crafting your origin story. Your origin story will give both existing and prospective members the language they need to explain what your community is and why it formed in the first place.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
early allies who care about what you care about enough to manifest your idea for a community into an actual gathering of human beings. Though there may not be many of them, the first people you involve are consequential. They will set the tone and direction for the future of your group.
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
In order to make sure that your community’s purpose is grounded in your people’s needs, and that it expresses what you can accomplish together, consider: 1. What do my people need more of? 2. What’s the change we desire? 3. What’s the problem only we can solve together?
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
Over time as community members contribute, and are increasingly validated and rewarded for their work, they become increasingly more willing to increase their commitments to the community — whether time, effort, or resources.
Peter Yuan Pan • Hard thing about communities
it is the way a group is gathered that determines what happens in it and how successful it is, the little design choices you can make to help your gathering soar.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
the first step in convening people meaningfully: committing to a bold, sharp purpose.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
We don’t build community .
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
How Communities Emerge
Features of a sustainable community: First, there’s a clear group identity with understood boundaries and purpose. Members know who is in or out and why they’re together. Second, benefits and costs are proportional. Members have a system that rewards contribution. Getting more benefits than others must be earned, or the group will collapse. Third,
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