Community

The Structure of Belonging

De: Peter Block

Narrado por: Nick Sullivan

Modern society is plagued by fragmentation. The various sectors of our communities - businesses, schools, social service organizations, churches, government - do not work together. They exist in their own worlds. As do so many individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost.

This disconnection and detachment makes it hard if not impossible to envision a common future and work towards it together. We know what healthy communities look like - there are many success stories out there, and they've been described in detail.

What Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation: How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? He explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

©2009 Peter Block (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Fantastic read!

This should be required reading for everyone. Written before this year's election,it touches on some poignant factors that I think our country (the US) has been sidestepping for years.

This is a book I can see myself reading over and over again.

Thank you Peter Block!

Excellent book.

I enjoyed the concept and idea that we are responsible for building our own communities and for becoming a part of each of the built in communities we are already a part of.

An important and inspiring book

Peter Block is a master of authentic, participatory process that awakens the deep potential of community. This book is a clear expression of ideas, guiding questions, principles and practices that will transform your collaborative community work.

Starts out terrific

If you read the first half it's an awesome book. But the second half takes the overall review down. Unless you're interested in how to arrange chairs in a discussion...

key points to community belonging

Learning more about community engagement and openness to belonging. An excellent time to develop Community skills.