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

MEN Giving-Up Unheathy Pleasures

MANY MEN don't recognize the impact that negative video games, competitive sports, and pornography have on their thinking and emotions.

These forms of entertainment can be addictive and leave you insensitive to others' feelings and needs, as well as leave you feeling unhappy, angry and fearful of others.

I encourage men to cut down on video games, TV and Internet porn by becoming more active in something – a hobby, a course, an instrument, exercise, a social program, an organization, helping others in the community.

In the new year, become your greater possibility. Use "The Serenity Prayer"... cultivate feelings of SERENITY, the COURAGE to change, and using WISDOM to discern what is better for you – healthier pleasures.

Changing a habit takes time, you may have setbacks, and more setbacks.

Get right back on your program for change and further development! One day at a time... 

Relax, meditate, become one with the Creation... ask yourself... "What can I do to give up any remaining superficiality, negativity or addictions and create a more meaningful, purposeful and creative life for myself, my family, my community, the world?" Quietly listen to what your Higher Self tells you...

Click here for a workshop I provide for men and women in Creative Transformation.

Click here for more Relationship Communication workshops.

If you would like habit change encouragement or coaching feel free to contact me:
Sandy Hinden
sandyhinden@7keystolove.net
516-815-4967

CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION WORKSHOP

A CREATIVE
TRANSFORMATION
WORKSHOP

IN YOUR HOME, LIBRARY
OR PLACE OF WORSHIP 


I teach a simple way to change your life and develop your higher, positive, creative potential so you can find and nurture your genius, gifts and talents and make your life deeply meaningful, purposeful, creative, fulfilling and loving...

With this process you'll truly flourish. We can organize a WORKSHOP by inviting your FRIENDS, and share a wonderful day together. Let's set up a date on a weekend.

Call or Text me at 516-815-4967 or
E-mail me at sandyhinden@7keystolove.net

For interviews, public speaking or workshops contact:
Sanford Hinden
sandyhinden@7keystolove.net
Skype: Sanford.Hinden
1-516-815-4967

Capitalism on Steroids & Revolution or Meditation & Healing the Mind & Heart

This week I was writing about capitalism and mediation... healing, re-parenting and love...
I realized that families without loving relationship and communication skills produce teens who turn into adult hoarders and aggressors... see below the threads woven into a tapestry of love...   

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In the past 30 years, capitalism entered a new phase – "Capitalism on Steroids," with electronic day-trading of derivatives, currency, commodities, short-selling, hedge funds, making millions a day from billions invested, while the rest of humanity becomes impoverished.

With this "Philosophy of More" the wealthy compare themselves to each other, want more, and more, and more – a mental illness, an obsession with more. It may be only a revolution will stop them. A colleague wrote: 

"Civil War is coming to every financial capital. It's called Occupy Wall Street. Search #OWS on twitter. Movements of this kind take 7 years to reach mainstream 2017. That day, in 2017, negligent bankers will stand trial in London, NYC, Amsterdam, Frankfurt. They can run but they can't hide."

I pray for the damaged and sick minds and hearts of these wealthy and obsessed people, they are so sad, wasting all their money on egotistic pursuits, or just hording it, rather than helping to co-creatively develop a new, sustainable world.

Some people think hoarding (greed) comes from being cold and selfishness; others think from being fearful and insecure, and the only way they feel secure is to hold onto stuff (money),

I see that the hoarder-greedy ones may have been abused or love neglected, unloved as children, now they are love-avoidant, without love skills, without warmth, fearful of gentle love and emotional intimacy, uncomfortable with kindness, devoid of empathy and compassion for others.

All they want is more and more travel, things, fancy food, fine wine, clothing, jewelery, houses or money... and for some, power over others.

I offer wealthy people the chance to re-parent themselves and learn love skills in the 7 Keys to Love book, workshop or phone coaching. They have much love to share, just like others, but their hearts are frozen, in need of kindness and a willingness to grow and change. 

Meditation can help us grow a garden of love and helps us heal. Simply sit and quiet yourself, notice what places need healing within. Listen to your heart’s true desires. Encourage yourself to make friends with any fear, pain or addiction residing within you. The only way to finally dissolve fear, pain and addiction is with compassion and daily self-care. The seed of compassion-love-kindness is within you. Nurture it each day. Grow the love within you, this way you are helping to take care of yourself and care for the world.

There once was a hungry mouse who scurried around a greedy man's house. The mouse covetously ate his cheese. The greedy man billowed with anger and wheezed. The greedy man also had a neurotic cat, all day it whined, schemed and obsessed, trying to convince the tiny, shiny goldfish, to visit his stomach as his permanent quest.

The moral of the story:

Pleasant sights and words may capture your mind; awareness can free your heart. Things may fuel your obsession and desires; meditation can help you discern the liars, serenity will heal your heart, and then take you higher.

 For interviews, public speaking, workshops or phone coaching contact:
Sanford Hinden
sandyhinden@7keystolove.net
Skype: Sanford.Hinden
1-516-815-4967

Global Transformation TV

The "Thought System of MORE" drives empire, greed, collecting, hording and even families that have more children than they can take good care of ...

MORE is not necessarily better... If you have great wealth, please fund creative organizations who work to develop sustainable communities for a sustainable planet...

I am available to talk about the Creative, Sustainable Communities Inventory you can see below...
We are working to create Global Transformation TV to bring on global experts to discuss the Top 25 issues we need to solve in the next 20 years.

Experts Solving Problems Instead of Politicians
There are about 25 world problems needing expert attention around our world.  Below is former World Bank vice president Jean-François Rischard’s list of Twenty Global Issues that need to be solved in twenty years.

He recommends that 30 world experts in each field gather for two years to make recommendations to 70 other experts in their field to come up with solutions.

SHARING OUR PLANET:
Issues involving the global commons
1. Global warming
2. Biodiversity and ecosystem losses
3. Fisheries depletion
4. Deforestation
5. Water deficits
6. Maritime safety and pollution

SHARING OUR HUMANITY:
Issues requiring global commitment
7. Massive step-up in the fight against poverty
8. Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism
9. Education for all
10. Global infectious diseases
11. Digital divide
12. Natural disaster prevention and mitigation

SHARING OUR RULE BOOK:
Issues needing a global regulatory approach
13. Reinventing taxation for the 21st century
14. Biotechnology rules
15. Global financial architecture
16. Illegal drugs
17. Fair trade, investment and competition rules
18. Intellectual property rights
19. E-commerce rules
20. International labor and migration rules

I add four more issues that need to be addressed:
21. Population
22. Employment
23. Sustainable Communities
24. Wealth-sharing, commonwealth and infrastructure for all

The Sustainable Communities Checklist is a template to measure the Whole System Sustainability of your community:

Whole System, Sustainable,
Healthy Communities Inventory

Town-Community ___________________________________________

Includes a Balance Among:

	Indicator	Well Being Measured By	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	Population	The community has enough work, housing, open space, schools and medical facilities for the population.
2	Transportation	The community has enough public transportation for all who need it at an affordable rate.
3	Education	The community has effective schools for all.
4	Work, employment	The community has enough job opportunities for all who need work.
5	Renewable energy	The community has effective means for providing access to energy sources for all.
6	Healthy food, gardening	The community has sufficient access to healthy food, grown locally.
7	Water, sanitation	The community has adequate supplies of clean water and sanitation facilities.
8	Healthcare	The community has enough health care providers and high standard facilities for delivering it.  There are adequate avenues for education, especially in preventative measures.
9	Good government	The community has well-established guidelines for a system of government that provides checks and balances as well as methods for ensuring accountability.
10	Relationship to people	People of different races, religions, nationalities and walks of life are welcomed and free to associate with whomever they want.
11	Relationship to nature	The community provides educational avenues for teaching a respectful approach to nature in schools as well as business practices and develops standards for ensuring those guidelines are met.
12	Volunteerism by all	The community provides opportunities for all to assess their skills and encourages its members to participate generously.
13	Generosity and contribution of time, talent, knowledge	The educated, successful, financially fortunate people in the community participate in contributing time, talent, knowledge and money to causes in the community.
14	Appreciation for art, creativity, science, nature, wonder, the sacred, the holy (within and between all faiths)	The community provides opportunities for creativity, faith-sharing and encourages its members to participate in deepening their spiritual lives.
15	Peace, transcendence, alignment with positive energy	The community encourages non-violent methods of communication and provides educational opportunities for learning to develop these skills as well as offering incentives for implementing  non-violent communication skills in schools and businesses.
	Total Whole System, Sustainable, Healthy Community Index		Score of _______ out of 150 _______ %

For involvement in Global Transformation TV or interviews, public speaking or workshops contact:
Sanford Hinden,
sandyhinden@7keystolove.net
Skype: Sanford.Hinden
1-516-815-4967