Transcript ACTIVATE! 4th Annual EWPCM Activity Leadership Conference

COMMUNITY BUILDING
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE!
Laurie Frank
GOAL Consulting
“People and Environments
are never neutral. They are
either summoning or
shunning the development of
human potential.”
Purkey & Novak, Inviting School Success
GOALS
• To create a knowledge base and
understanding about creating community
that allows each participant to become an
intentional community-builder.
• To participate in a dynamic community
building process
• To enjoy oneself and each other
• To share expertise and ideas with one’s
peers
OUTCOMES
• A relevant definition of community
• An awareness of conditions that encourage
community to develop
• An appreciation that building trust is an ongoing,
and vital, foundation of community
• Ideas for creating connections and community
with one or more people
• A list and description of activities that can be
used with children, youth, and adults
• Knowledge of service learning and how to modify
events to deepen service experiences with your
communities
AGENDA
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Introduction
Community: Why and What?
Conditions for Community to Develop
Community is about Relationships &
Relationships are About Trust
• Service Learning & Leadership
• Closing
GROUND RULES
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Assume Good Intentions
Ouch/Oops
Right to Pass
Others?
VISION
•HONEST
• CREATIVE
•EMPATHETIC
• RESPECT
•RESPONSIBLE • MOTIVATED
•SELF RESPECT • RELIABLE
•LITERATE
• EMPLOYED
•CONFIDENT
• HEALTHY
•SELF SUFFICIENT
•SENSE OF HUMOR
•INDEPENDENT
•PERSEVERENCE
•RESOURCEFUL
•PROBLEM SOLVERS
•GOOD COMMUNICATOR
•LOYAL
• RESILIENT
•CARING
• PATIENT
•HAPPY
• AT PEACE
•INTEGRITY
• RESOURCEFUL
•SUCCESSFUL • CONTRIBUTER
• FORGIVING
•GOOD PARENTS
•POSITIVE ATTITUDE
•WELL-INFORMED
•GET ALONG W/ OTHERS
•GOOD SELF ESTEEM
•CRITICAL THINKER
•COMPASSIONATE
•PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS
From Group to Community
“In genuine community there are no sides. It is not always
easy but by the time they reach community the members have
learned how to give up cliques and factions. They have
learned how to listen to each other and how not to reject each
other. Sometimes consensus in community is reached with
miraculous rapidity. But at other times it is arrived at only after
lengthy struggle. Just because it is a safe place does not
mean community is a place without conflict. It is, however, a
place where conflict can be resolved without physical or
emotional bloodshed and with wisdom as well as grace. A
community is a group that can fight gracefully.”
M. Scott Peck M.D.
The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
Thomas Sergiovanni states that “the need for
community is universal. A sense of belonging,
of continuity, of being connected to others and
to ideas and values that make our lives
meaningful and significant -- these needs are
shared by all of us.”
Sergiovanni goes on to say:
“… Communities are collections of individuals who are
bonded together by natural will and who are together
binded to a set of shared ideas and ideals. This
bonding and binding is tight enough to transform them
from a collection of “I’s” into a collective “we.” As a
“we,” members are part of a tightly knit web of
meaningful relationships. This “we” usually shares a
common place and over time comes to share common
sentiments and traditions that are sustaining. When
describing community it is helpful to speak of
community kinship, of mind, of place, and of memory.”
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“The people in one’s life are like the
pillars on one’s porch you see life
through. And sometimes they hold you
up. And sometimes they lean on you,
and sometimes it’s just enough to know
they’re standing by.”
Anonymous
Community is consciousness of connection,
combining and comprising: Courtesy,
communication, collaboration, cooperation,
consideration, caring, compassion, curiosity,
commonalities, common goals, confidence,
creativity, courage, challenge, camaraderie,
and conceivably chocolate.
CTC Group, 2004
Conditions for Community
Development
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Social Commitment: WE
Empowerment: ME
Physical/Emotional Safety
Focus: Goals/Questioning
3 R’s: Routines, Rituals, Rites-of-Passage
Time
Relationships
Growth Circles
Panic Zone
Growth Zone
Comfort
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Service Learning is a teaching and
learning strategy that integrates
meaningful community service with
instruction and reflection to enrich
the learning experience, teach civic
responsibility, and strengthen
communities.
Source: Learn & Serve America:
www.servicelearning.org
Community Service
* Picking up trash at a
park
Service Learning
* Picking up trash at a park,
going to a recycling center to
see where the trash goes,
then creating posters for the
community to show why
recycling is important
Community Service
* Visiting elders in a
nursing home
Service Learning
* Visiting elders in a nursing
home, interviewing them,
writing their stories and
giving them a copy -- and/or
creating a newsletter to
introduce these elders and
their stories to the
community.
Community Service
* Going to the Humane
Society to walk dogs
Service Learning
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“People and Environments
are never neutral. They are
either summoning or
shunning the development of
human potential.”
Purkey & Novak, Inviting School Success
COMMUNITY BUILDING
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE!
Laurie Frank
GOAL Consulting
[email protected]
www.goalconsulting.org