COMMUNITY BUILDING PROCESS

LOCAL & GLOBAL
COMMUNITY BUILDING
PROCESS

All around the world we need people working together to solve local, national and global problems.

It starts with the attitudes of the people.  You have to go beyond yourself if you are going to be able to work with other people. Be respectful of others. 

Here is a Community Building Model you can use.  It starts with helping people go beyond their Self-Centeredness.

Often a community exists but members are having significant problems, making anything except survival, and fulfilling short-term needs, impossible.  Community Visioning & Planning get thwarted.

The community can advance through focusing on small, non-political, trust-building workshops and projects to build respect, relationships, skills, confidence and success.  

Hold a workshop in Listening Skills. Take a few months to build listening skills and relationships with a few people.

Keep adding people with respectful attitudes and listening skills to the group.  Make Listening Skills and Learning cornerstones of all your work together.

	COMMUNITY DETERIORATION PROCESS	COMMUNITY BUILDING PROCESS
1	Superiority, Self-Centered, Egotistic	Healthy Self-Love, Relational
2	Desire for Power Over Others	Desire to Collaborate for Improvement
3	Disrespect, Contempt, Disdain	Respect, Compassion
4	Uncommunicative or Belligerent	Positive Communication
5	Shut Down, Not Listening	Listening to Understand Others' Feelings, Values and Needs
6	Not Learning and Understanding More	Learning and Understanding More
7	Fixed Thinking	Changing One’s Mind
8	Limited Thinking	Expanding One’s Mind
9	Competitive	Collaborative
10	Greed and Hoarding	Sharing Resources, Philanthropy
11	Community Conflict	Community Asset Building
12	Blocking Progress	Co-Creativity
13	Repetition of What Didn’t Work	Innovation
14	No Progress	Great Progress
15	Further Deterioration Locally and Globally	Sustainable Communities for a Sustainable World

Thank you for all you do to help your family, business or community be a better place for all. Sustainable businesses and communities add up to creating a sustainable world.  

If I can help through consulting, workshops, public speaking, interviews or coaching, please let me know.

Working with you to make
2012 a good year for all,
Sandy Hinden
sandyhinden@7keystolove.net
Skype: Sanford.Hinden
1-516-815-4967