<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:29 AM<br>Subject: Cultural thread into the context of Community ( and Community Engagement )<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:global-survival@googlegroups.com">global-survival@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style>This now brings into focus a discussion of relationships, place, and some sense of a common good or goal or set of goals. I like the way <a href="http://twitter.com/peter_block" style="border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">Peter Block</a> broadly frames the ideal common ground of a productive, engaged community, paraphrasing him:</span></p>
<blockquote style="border:1px solid rgb(51,51,51);margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:15px 20px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;quotes:none"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><b style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">“In terms of possibilities, what can we create in this place together?”</b></p>
</blockquote><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style>As we unpack the Community dimension, let’s start first in the Social Change context (column E, in the above framework), and address questions that would be associated with cell “E2″ ..</span></p>
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<b style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Q1. What cultural forces are constructive in a community vs. problematic?</b></li><li style="background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/piano-black/img/bullet.gif);border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px 12px;vertical-align:baseline">
<b style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Q2. How important are relationships in a community vs. focus on specific topics/issues?</b></li><li style="background-image:url(http://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/pub/piano-black/img/bullet.gif);border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 5px 12px;vertical-align:baseline">
<b style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Q3. When and why do community stakeholders (aka “citizens”) participate & engage?</b></li></ul><p></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:19px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">
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